religious themes
religious themes
Renaissance paintings show figures in earthly settings; figures in medieval paintings have heavenly gold backgrounds.
Paintings before the Renaissance: people saw in only a 2 dimensional figure, but in the Renaissance, people saw art in a 3 dimensional figure. Painters in the Renaissance gave attention to body size, proportions, perspective, and detail.
The medieval renaissance began around 1300
Symbolic meaning
religious themes
Renaissance paintings show figures in earthly settings; figures in medieval paintings have heavenly gold backgrounds.
The renaissance came a few hundred years after the medieval times also greater discoveries were made in the renaissance such as artists who drew non religious paintings.
The Renaissance spirit embraced the secular literature of ancient Greece and Rome, where as the medieval mind considered it pagan. References to Greco-Roman deities abound in Renaissance literature.
Paintings before the Renaissance: people saw in only a 2 dimensional figure, but in the Renaissance, people saw art in a 3 dimensional figure. Painters in the Renaissance gave attention to body size, proportions, perspective, and detail.
Renaissance man have more science then the medieval man.
The medieval renaissance began around 1300
The painting on the right, because it includes elements of medieval and Byzantine styles such as flat, expressionless figures in unnatural positions.
The Renaissance.
The Renaissance nobles lived in cities and were active in trade, banking, and public life. This shows that the Renaissance nobles were smarter than the medieval nobles
the differences are that Medieval artists decipted the birth of jesus. Renaissance artists focused on symbols
Religious images were not a major focus of Renaissance art as opposed to Medieval art.