They featured more realism and emotion
They featured more realism and emotion
They featured more realism and emotion
they featured more realism and emotion
they featured more realism and emotion
Renaissance paintings show figures in earthly settings; figures in medieval paintings have heavenly gold backgrounds.
they featured more realism and emotion
They featured more realism and emotion.
Early Renaissance paintings depicted religious themes with a greater emphasis on realism, human emotion, and the natural world, reflecting a shift towards humanism. Artists began to use techniques such as linear perspective and chiaroscuro to create depth and dimension, resulting in more lifelike figures. In contrast, Middle Ages paintings often featured flat, stylized figures and a lack of perspective, focusing more on conveying spiritual messages than realistic representation. This shift marked a significant evolution in artistic approach and the portrayal of sacred subjects.
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Size They were done on a smaller scale
Size They were done on a smaller scale
Florence in Italy was the birthplace of the Renaissance and from there is spread through France to Northern Europe. With the Renaissance movement came humanism which had a huge impact on religion in Northern Europe. It lead to the arrival of the Reformation and the turmoil that came with it. Catholicism in Italy however remained untouchable. Protestantism never really happened in Italy. With regard to art. In Italy artists still did religious themed paintings but also started depicting the VIPees of the era and putting them in backgrounds from Ancient Greece and Rome. This never really caught on in Northern Europe (at least not in the extent as in Italy). In Northern Europe they continued depicting religious figures for a much longer period of time. Later on they abandoned this and focused on depicting scenes from daily life, painting ordinary people and ordinary scenes (Breughel and Van Eyk). The Italian Renaissance Men and Women did not do this.