The Period of Renaissance

Renaissance took place about from the 13th century to the 16th century in Florence,

it is a cornerstone for the future development of different aspects of Europe even

the world. During the Renaissance, people not only traced back to the Romanesque

but also developed a new era of art. Moreover, people emphasized rationality and

balance of the artworks. The Renaissance can be divided into three periods which

are Early Renaissance, High Renaissance and Late Renaissance.

To start with, Early Renaissance is a period in which many techniques and thoughts

about art were developed.

During the Early Renaissance, people started focus more on physical realism and

composition of artworks. Humanism and realism were things they concerned most

that they believed in human

These improvements in Early Renaissance

have a long-term effect on art even the ones nowadays.

With the experience and techniques developed in Early Renaissance, Renaissance

reached to a high time and resulted in High Renaissance and artists at that time

emphasized balance and harmony of the artworks. The “leading” artists in the High

Renaissance were undoubtedly Leonardo de Vinci and Michelangelo. De Vinci was

talented that he was not only being famous in the field of arts, he also had enormous

knowledge about science, architecture etc. as he was hooked on unlocking the

secret of nature. It was suggested that human figures were the fundamental

principle of proportion and an ideal man has eight head height, many artworks

created at that time followed this “rule”. Other than the perspectives suggested in

Early Renaissance, De Vinci produced artworks using different techniques like

Sfumato and Chiaroscuro in Mona Lisa and the Last Supper etc. Like the Early

Renaissance, artists continued depict emotions in their artworks and used