Mantegna's Role In The Italian Renaissance

His works, however, still have lasting influence today. He was very skilled in chiaroscuro and perspective and is viewed as an

Whilst walking around Venice one can spot Titian art and Titian influence all over the city. Titian is a very celebrated and valued artist in the city of Venice. His first commission was ‘The Assumption of the Virgin’ for the high altar of the Frari, which established his place as a known Venetian artist. The Assumption of the Virgin brought up some comments because of the odd and dark way Titian portrayed the Virgin Mary. In the Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari many of the high altars were painted by Titian; this was a very big deal because it gave him exposure as an artist.

Tischbein started his career by painting portaits at the Prussian court in Berlin (“Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein” npag). After 1777, Tischbein became very successful working there. Eventually, he became bored with painting portraits and “went to Munich, where he studied Dürer and the early German painters” (Murray 525). Following Johann’s move to Italy in 1779, he was named director of the art academy in Naples in 1789 (“Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein” npag). Tischbein started painting history pictures while in Rome for the second time (Murray 525).

There were a lot of historically important people in the Renaissance era, but one of the most prominent was Giorgione Barbarelli. In circa 1477, Giorgione was born in a small town called Castelfranco, just outside of Venice, Italy. Not a lot was recorded about his life, but we do know for certain that he studied under the greatest venetian master at that time. In 1490, Giorgione traveled to Venice and became the apprentice of Giovanni Bellini.

Giorgione was religious, so some of paintings, have religious subjects, like the "Adoration of the Shepherds" , painted during the 1505 to 1510 and “The Holy Family” , painted about in the year about 1504. Giorgione’s best known painting is “The Tempest” , that was painted in 1505, when Giorgione had the age of 28. As Biography.com states, “The Tempest” requires the viewer to determine La Tempesta, 1505, by Giorgione the symbolic meaning of thework—a meaning that stemmed from Giorgione’s own imagination, rather than traditional interpretations”. Giorgione died around the year 1510, but is not certain of the cause, but during that time in Venice there was the plague, so that’s most probably the reason why.

Another famous painter was Michelangelo. With the help of Raphael Titian and Sandro Botticelli, he painted the series of scenes from the Bible on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Not only did the way of painting change, so did Architecture. Filippo Brunelleschi was best known for changing the style of building. He was best known for designing and building the large domes for churches.

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, commonly known as Raphael, was an Italian architect and painter during the High Renaissance. Although he died at 37, Raphael created masterpieces that made an enormous impression on Italian society during and beyond his too-short life as his artworks were known to mirror the values of the High Renaissance. His works introduce his unique artistic techniques as they explore and express the ideal human grandeur. His techniques were unique as he used perspective in his paintings -- a skill that few of his contemporaries were able to achieve. During his apprenticeship to the Italian Renaissance painter Perugino, he ran a large workshop and was known for his exceptional productivity, intelligence, and imagination.

He composed sacred as well as secular music in his lifetime in a number of vocal forms ranging from masses, chansons, to motets. His stay at Rome had been highly productive for it was here where he developed his mature style. While working in Milan, he had absorbed Italian secular light music; but in Rome, he refined his sacred music and wrote several motets. Before he left Italy, he wrote one of his most famous secular compositions, the ‘frottola El grillo’

The scenes Michelangelo painted on the Sistine Chapel are the embodiment of Renaissance art and the pinnacle of creativity of the time period. The many scenes on the ceiling are painted in the style of the classics which is indicative of the rediscovery going on around them. The paintings show the characteristics of the Renaissance that we talked about in class. The scenes of the Sistine Chapel are Renaissance art because the embodie the ideas and values of the Renaissance.

One of the most famous artists in the history of art in the Impressionist movement prominent Claude Monet, the famous, also known as Oscar French painter. Was born on 14 November 1840. He gave the name to the Impressionist art movement, where the first modern Impressionist movements is evident in the painting. And spread its influence throughout most of Europe and the United States. Where was shunned by some academic institutions of art.

Thomas Cole (1801-1848) was an American artist who was the founder of the Hudson River School of romantic American Landscape painting. Cole was well known for his work a being realistic and had a meticulous depiction of American landscape which featured themes of romanticism. Cole was born in England but at 17 years old his family immigrated to Ohio where Cole learned the foundation of his profession. Landscape art was not Cole’s only skill, he also was known for doing sketches, which produced some very skillful and well known pieces. Cole’s personal life was full and enriched with 5 children one of which passed away at birth, and he was married at 26 years of age to the niece of the studio he worked for in New York.

Humanism was a study of the classics and focused on each individual themselves. Greco-Roman styles, individuality, and both science and mathematics heavily influenced many works of art in the Italian Renaissance. The Vitruvian Man done by Leo Da Vinci perfectly portrays humanism within art. The drawing is of a lone man and it focuses on his natural form; the individual himself. Science and anatomy were used to create the body.