“Figures that are elegant and ideally beautiful are a key to characteristics of the High Renaissance.” (Towards ....) The Renaissance era had an art type that was somewhat interesting and fascinating in the point of how the art changed, the expression of the art, and even in the unique ways that artists had in creating their art.
Art had changed much going into the Renaissance era. Medieval art was in many ways different from the Renaissance art. Medieval artists focused more on teaching lessons in their art. Some medieval art showed a biblical story. The art of the medieval era also had an unnatural look. The look in art going into the Italian Renaissance was most definitely a “rebirth”. Italian Renaissance art emphasized humanism (focus more-so on the human as an individual), which was not at all a deal of the medieval era. Art of this era was no longer all about lessons or biblical stories.
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Fresco art, done with water colors, was paintings on fresh, wet plaster. (Spievogel) Paintings by Masaccio (A famous fresco painter from Florence during the Renaissance era) were regarded as the first few masterpieces of his time for fresco art. Masaccio had as well developed new, realistic styles of painting. (Spievogel) Two major developments were stressed by frescoes. This would be the technical side of paintings and investigation of movement and human anatomy. (Spievogel)
The paintings took a toll on Renaissance in Italy. Florence was favorable to the paintings during this timeframe in Italy. Some of the famous artists in this period were Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Albrecht Dürer. Paintings were known to be either spiritual or realistic. Humanism was widely shown in the