Tanveer Khalili
Civil 003
Paper 2
RENAISSANCE ART AND RELIGION
During the Middle Ages Renaissance reflected predominately religious subject matter, the portrayal of which was frequently un-naturalistic. Human figures were bland and long, show casing no sense of weight, and backgrounds were mystical with golden backgrounds and halos on religious entities. Beginning in the late middle Ages with Giotto and being Perfected as the Renaissance evolved, paintings and sculpture were marked by classical influence, called humanism, and subject matters, especially of religious subjects, became progressively more realistic and naturalistic. Jesus was shown so naturally that one could see the Individual hairs on his head in some works, and rather than
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In the modern times there is not a great amount of religious art present in today’s society mainly because we humans have evolved so much to the point that believe that God is just a word and not an existing entity. In addition religion is so sensitive that it can cause a lot of controversy so for that reason people today are not as expressive when it comes to their religious believes, in fear of being discriminated .It is due to the significant authority of the Church during the middle Ages that art developed such enlightening religious themes, and it is due in part to the creation of the religiously themed art of the Renaissance that some people developed such deep reactions to mysticism exemplifying the symbiotic relationship of religion and art. Art and religion admittedly have had its share of conflicts in history but art has also brought needed light and interest into religion by depicting religious figures and events in an exemplified form that people can relate to and understand. Instead religion being confined to words written in books artists in the Middle Ages brought those words to life using