13 main Renaissance works to discover the period
A rebirth was a time in which ancient Greco-Roman values began to resurface in Europe, leaving Italy in the fourteenth century.
In addition, culture and art gradually soften important transformations that reveal a return to two classical ideas. There is also the valorization of the human being, it gives harmony, rationality and logic.
This period was an important framework for the history of the Ocidente and the stage of great genios da art, like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, who produced works considered perfection models.
1. Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa (The Mona Lisa, not original) is a fine painting in oil ink on wood, dated 1503. Its author is Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), two great names for rebirth.
The work is considered the most famous in the history of art due to its enigmatic character, symmetrical and that prima pela harmony in proportions, composition and play of light and shadow, achieved through the sfumato technique.
Measuring some 77cm x 53cm, a small canvas attracted many people who went to the Louvre Museum, in Paris, to see or portrait of a young woman who faces the spectators with a mysterious countenance, denoting now sympathy, now haughtiness.
2. A criação de Adãoby Michelangelo
A criação de Adão It is a painting made on the abóboda da Capela Sistina between 1508 and 1512. Integra or set of images produced by Michelangelo (1475-1564) in a cappella with the technique of afresco, when painting and feita on undying gesso.
At dinner, or artist exposes to his interpretation of what had been or moment of conception of the first home on the face of Terra, Adão. Therefore, or that we see the figure of a homeless person as a straight arm stretched out in the direction of God, who with a touch gives him life.
Importance of this work is in a rational way that Michelangelo chooses to portray this biblical passage. Note that the cloak of the angles that surrounds the divine figure are structured in a way that corresponds to the image of a brain, suggesting a thinking, logical and coherent Deus. These values are completely interlinked in the context of rebirth.
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3. Or birth of Venusby Sandro Botticelli
Or birth of Venus (Nascita di Venere), born in 1484, is one of the great works of Italian renaissance. Painted by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510), a canvas with dimensions of 172.5 x 278.5 cm and is located in the Galleria degli Uffizi, in Italy.
A dinner portrays or mythological episode of the origin of Venus, of love and beauty in Roman mythology. Divindade is portrayed as a beautiful young woman who takes her sex as soon as water emerges through a shell.
A work that stands out in the history of the rebirth, shows an image that is fully referenced in the culture Greco-Roman, tracing even the influence of classical sculpture, as observed in the body position of Venus.
Apart from this, beauty and harmony, which are highly valued in no period, can be contemplated in the painting by Mestre Botticelli.
4. Pietáby Michelangelo
Some of the most established sculptures of the Renaissance period, semi dúvida, é Pietá (1499), by Michelangelo. Made in marble, with dimensions of 174 x 195 cm and located in the Basilica of São Pedro, not the Vatican.
The artist sculpted the Virgin Mary's dinner in a painful moment, when Jesus is dead in his arms. We can notice a deep knowledge of genius in anatomy to portray or body of Christ in life, as all of the Relaxed muscles not the color of Maria, who exhibits a large body with a richly worked tunic in her draped.
Together with various Renaissance values, such as symmetry, valorization of the human body and composition, they collaborate so that sculpture becomes an icon of harmony in the history of Renaissance art.
5. School of Athensby Rafael Sanzio
To the School of Athens It is one of the most well known works of Rafael Sanzio (1483-1520). A painting, originally titled de Scuola di AthensIt was founded between 1509 and 1511 using the fresh technique and is located outside the Vatican.
As I was originally told, the painting portrays a place of knowledge and study in Grécia Antiga, also known as the Academia de Platão.
Also, this is a painting that values by reason and intellect, as well as paying homage to various important figures of classical antiquity.
We can notice a great concern of the artist in showing an impeccable perspective through the composition of architectural details and diverse personages.
6. Or vitruvian homemby Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was a two genre of rebirth that has great concern with perfection and symmetry in their representations of the human body.
Assim, in 1490 the produced a development in daily life that would become a emblem of the Renaissance period. A work in question is a figure of a homem represented according to the suggested proportions by Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, or Vitrúvio.
Or subject and displayed within a square and a circle, in order to touch the extremities of geometric shapes. Dessa form, da Vinci exhibits a human being in his totality, exatidão and beauty, values admired in no period.
Also disso, or artist chooses quadrangular and circular shapes, these are also considered symbols of symmetry and harmony.
7. Daviby Michelangelo
Outra work of art that can not be cited as a reference to two ideas of rebirth. Davi, produced between 1502 and 1504 by Michelangelo.
At the bottom is a huge marble sculpture with dimensions of 5 meters high (counting as a base) and weight of 5 tons. He is currently at the Galeria da Academia, an Italian museum.
Michelangelo portrays a great work of a biblical dinner where David defeats the giant Golias and manages to help the Israeli liberation of the Philistines.
The artist achieves success in his representation, by peça exibe com exatidão as human forms, including veins and muscles, also gives facial expression that denotes concentration and sagacidade.
9. Springby Sandro Botticelli
A Botticelli fabric entitled Spring It was produced in 1478 with dimensions of 203 x 314 cm, found in the Uffizzi Gallery, in Florença, in Italy.
The painting is entrusted to the Italian Medici family and exhibits various characters of Greco-Roman mythology in a forest to celebrate the season of flowers, in spring.
Or artist manages to reproduce a dinner with a pleasant and delicate rhythm that exhibits impeccably or beauty ideal own works of rebirth.
The dark background of the landscape in contrast with the clear figures contributed to highlight the people, inserted in poses that relate to classical art sculpture, which is present in the Renaissance.
10. A Ultima Ceia, by Leonardo da Vinci
Last ceia It is a work located in a repository of the Convent of Santa Maria Delle Grazie, in Milão, in Italy. It was painted by Leonardo da Vinci master hair between 1494 and 1497 in large dimensions of 4.60 x 8.80 meters.
The technique used is an innovation of fresh fruit, when it receives the layers of inks at the same time. In this case, da Vinci deposits the pigments that are not dry, or that they help to create greater freedom from the light and shade, but it ends up facilitating the deterioration of the paint.
This is a work-prima pois exhibits in a very singular and innovative way to a biblical dinner at the moment. that Jesus Christ communicates to his disciples that one of them will be his betrayer, not Judas Iscariotes.
Here, or use da perspective It is used with mastery, conferring symmetry and directing or olhar de quem observes for the face of Christ.
11. Federico de Montefeltroby Piero della Francesca
A canvas representing the portrait of Federico de Montefeltro was painted by the Italian artist Piero della Francesca (1410-1492) in 1472. With 47 x 33 cm, or picture shows the figure of the home in profile as an indifferent and disinterested expression and can be viewed at the Uffizi Gallery, in Italy.
This work is important for the period, because it exhibits a figure of sixty emotions, in which its director creates a composition using or homem for stand out geometric shapes, symmetries, lights and shadows. Assim, create an image that precedes rationality and logic.
Note that the head of the little subject has a cubic format, finished by seu chapéu vermelho. O panorama ao founded e o de uma paisagem, with lakes and mountains, as we also noticed in other works of the period, such as Mona Lisa, for example.
12. A assunção da virgemby Ticiano
The Renaissance painter Titian (1485-1576) was two more renowned Venezuelan artists. Ticiano mastered the combination of colors, lights and shadows, as well as producing memorable portraits.
Uma das suas outstanding works of him é A assunção da Virgem, a huge panel completed in 1518 in the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, in Veneza.
The image shows the mother of Jesus being raised to or ceu by angio enquanto a group of apostles testemunha or miracle. A dinner or run to direct or call the spectator to stop or stop, in an upward movement.
Another Renaissance characteristic strongly present in the work is valorization of light, which runs from the top to the bottom, as an image is banished as a "divine illumination".
13. Dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, by Brunelleschi
As architectural works do Renascimento also translate the concepts of the epoch, looking for a spatial organization based on mathematical associations and that ultrapassassem to extreme verticality proposta pelas gothic cathedrals.
The Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, in Florença, in Italy, is an important example of architecture that reveals the beginnings of the era.
Initiated by Arnolfo di Cambio in 1296, you are also a painter and architect Giotto as two responsible for construction. Meanwhile, it was Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) who idealized the cupola and completed the work in 1420.
Referenced to classical models, such as Roman Pantheon, or architect managed to create a cathedral whose harmony, stability and balance composed of an icon of Renaissance architecture.
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