Renaissance Art Research Paper

“The revival of art, the return to Greek and Roman ideas of beauty as displayed in the ancient statues, and the general diffusion in better taste in matters of art, which took place in the fifteenth century.” 3 The Renaissance art reflected a rebirth of classical learning and the rediscovery of Greece and Ancient Rome. The Renaissance began in Northern Italy following the Black Death, a disease that had killed almost half of the Europe’s population. The only way in avoiding the disease was to leave the city relocate to another country. However, only the rich were able to afford to leave the country. Soon after the plague, an economic depression occurred because there were not many people to sell wares. The economic struggle had spread throughout

Petrarch was known as the “Father of Humanism” and he viewed himself living in a period that ended sorrow of the Middle Age which he found as “a time of darkness.” Petrarch considered the peak of human civilization from the first two centuries of the Roman Empire. People who lived in the Middle Ages had thought of themselves as continuing the glories of Rome, although, Petrarch seen that glory lost invasions by the barbarians. To Petrarch “Europe had entered a period which he denominated the “dark ages” (Italian Renaissance). “He also considered this the “middle” age between the glories of the Classical Era and his own time.” (Italian Renaissance). “Many writers and artists of the Renaissance followed his example by speaking with contempt of the Medieval Period.” (Italian

“The Battle of San Romano was fought in 1432 between the troops of Florence, commanded by Niccolò da Tolentino, and Siena, under Francesco Piccinino” (Battle of The Romano). The Battle of San Romano was Uccello’s greatest work which consisted in three panels and they were located in National Gallery, London, Uffizi, Florence and Louvre, Paris. It is a combination of scientific perspective and festivity of action and incident of love. “Broken lances serve both to suggest the melee of battle, and to act as perspective lines to lead the eye inward towards the horizon” (Paolo