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The painters wanted to point real people who would pose in lifelike way and showed feelings and they wanted to include realistic backgrounds that were different style from flat, rigid paintings of the Middle Ages. Renaissance painters were the first people to use techniques of perspective. Painters used perspective to create the appearance of depth on a flat surface.
Italian Renaissance such as Michelangelo painters focused most on technical detail and perspective. For Baroque painters, emotion was the main focus.
Renaissance painters employed techniques such as linear perspective, which involves creating a vanishing point to simulate depth and space on a flat surface. They also utilized chiaroscuro, the contrast of light and shadow, to enhance the three-dimensionality of their subjects. Additionally, the careful modeling of forms and the use of atmospheric perspective helped to create a sense of realism and depth in their compositions. These innovations collectively transformed the depiction of space and volume in painting.
Many Renaissance painters used one-point perspective to create a sense of space in their works.
They moved religious messages into the background.
They experimented with new techniques and styles. They also wanted to make their works more realstic.
Italian High Renaissance painters commonly used the technique of linear perspective to create the illusion of depth in their artworks. This method involves the use of a vanishing point on the horizon line, where parallel lines converge, drawing the viewer's eye into the composition. Additionally, they employed techniques such as chiaroscuro and atmospheric perspective, which further enhanced the three-dimensionality by manipulating light and color to suggest distance. These conventions collectively contributed to the realistic portrayal of space in their paintings.
The rules of perspective
depicted lush landscapes and happy peasants.
Moved religious stuff to the background
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.