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Early Renaissance
Early Renaissance, mostly found in Italy, marks the period in the fifteenth century between the Middle Ages and the High Renaissance in Italy.
The term renaissance means rebirth and is used to mark an era of broad cultural achievement as a result of renewed interest in the classical art and ideas of Ancient Greece and Rome. The main idea of rebirth lies at the belief that through the study of the intellectual and artistic treasures of the Greco-Roman antiquity, inspired by Humanism, can be reached the artistic greatness, wisdom and enlightenment.
The rediscovery of classical world radically altered the art of painting. By the year 1500, the Renaissance revived ancient forms and content. The spiritual content of painting changed - subjects from Roman history and mythology were borrowed. Devotional art of Christian orientation became classically humanized. Classical artistic principles, including harmonious proportion, realistic expression, and rational postures were emulated.
During this artistic period two regions of Western Europe were particularly active: Flanders and Italy. Most of the Early Renaissance works in northern Europe were produced between 1420 and 1550.
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Early Renaissance Artists
Fra Angelico (1395 - 1455)
Antonello da Messina (1430 - 1479)
Gentile Bellini (1429 - 1507)
Alessandro Botticelli (1445 - 1510)
Andrea del Castagno (1421 - 1457)
Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano (1459 - 1518)
Francesco del Cossa (1436 - 1477)
Carlo Crivelli (1435 - 1495)
Jean Fouquet (1420 - 1481)
Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449 - 1494)
Giotto (1267 - 1337)
Masaccio (1401 - 1428)
Masolino (1383 - 1440)
Filippino Lippi (1457 - 1504)
Fra Filippo Lippi (1406 - 1469)
Pietro Perugino (1446 - 1524)
Piero della Francesca (1416 - 1492)
Luca Signorelli (1445 - 1523)
Cosmè Tura (1430 - 1495)
Paolo Uccello (1397 - 1475)
Domenico Veneziano (1405 - 1461)
Andrea del Verrocchio (1435 - 1488)
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High Renaissance
The 'birth' of new interest in Classical Greco-Latin world, that artistic revolution of the Early Renaissance matured to what is now known as the High Renaissance. There has never been growth as lovely as that of painting in Florence and Rome, of the end of 15th and early 16th centuries. High Renaissance in Italy is the climax of Renaissance art, from 1500-1525. It is also considered as a sort of natural evolution of Italian Humanism (Umanesimo.
It has been characterized by explosion of creative genius. Painting especially reached its peak of technical competence, rich artistic imagination and heroic composition. The main characteristics of High Renaissance painting are harmony and balance in construction.
Italian High Renaissance artists achieved ideal of harmony and balance comparable with the works of ancient Greece or Rome. Renaissance Classicism was a form of art that removed the extraneous detail and showed the world as it was. Forms, colors and proportions, light and shade effects, spatial harmony, composition, perspective, anatomy - all are handled with total control and a level of accomplishment for which there are no real precedents.
We find it in the works of the greatest artists ever known: the mighty Florentines, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo; the Umbrian, Raffaello Sanzio; along with the great Venetian masters Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese.
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High Renaissance Artists
Fra Bartolommeo (1472 - 1517)
Giovanni Bellini (1430 - 1516)
Ridolfo Ghirlandaio (1483 - 1561)
Giorgione (1477 - 1510)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
Lorenzo Lotto (1480 - 1556)
Michelangelo (1475 - 1564)
Raphael (1483 - 1520)
Tintoretto (1518 - 1594)
Titian (1477 - 1576)
Marcello Venusti (1515 - 1579)
Paolo Veronese (1528 - 1588)
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Northern Renaissance
The Renaissance in the north has a distinctively different character than that of
Italy and the southern countries. Though the styles of Northern artists vary
according to geography, one characteristic that is fundamental to all northern
art of this period is a fondness for meticulous rendering of details. In addition,
there is generally less of the classical ideal apparent in the figures (which can
be partly explained by their lack of access to Greek and Roman statues).
Instead, remnants of Gothic influences are apparent in their compositions.
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Northern Renaissance Artists
Albrecht Altdorfer (1480 - 1538)
Hieronymus Bosch (1453 - 1516)
Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1525 - 1569)
Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564 - 1638)
Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568 - 1625)
Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528)
Hugo van der Goes (1440 - 1482)
Matthias Grünewald (1480 - 1528)
Mabuse (1462 - 1533)
Quentin Massys (1466 - 1530)
Hans Memling (1439 - 1494)
Jan van Eyck (1385 - 1441)
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