Scientific Approach To Art In The Renaissance

Introduction
The Renaissance (rebirth) usually refers to a cultural movement that originated in Italy and later spread to the rest of Europe. The period between the 14th through the middle of 17th century has seen an explosion of humancentric ideas, inventions, innovations, creativity, and progress in science. The encouraging and dynamic environment of Renaissance was a melting pot for artists and scientists who not only sought to exchange ideas with other people in the same field, but they also had a thirst for learning and mastering different subjects and become a polymath. We are now going to look at influence of scientific knowledge on art in the three stylistic periods, Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo.
Renaissance
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Our senses can mislead us but yet there are the only tools we have to interpret data and the best way to do this is to develop methods which can test and correct our understanding of the observations.
To this end, the English politician, Sir Francis Bacon developed the Testing Hypothesis and enabled philosopher to set up experiments and test the truthfulness of their hypothesis about the world ("Francis Bacon and the scientific revolution", 2015). The doubt that once was treated as the enemy of the faithful man, became an excellent tool to avoid hasty judgments and false conclusion.
The way that this new way of acquiring knowledge affected the artists was by allowing them to engage with nature, study it and create new sources and writings rather than using the outdated and ancient sources. This new scientific approach in combination with Printing Making gave artists the opportunity to see pictures from places far away, places and people they couldn’t have seen otherwise. Print Making supplied artists with new sources of

Rococo
The scientific revolution continued to influence thinkers and artists for centuries to come. The Enlightenment, a shift towards understanding the universe in terms of universal and unchanging laws and avoiding to appeal to the supernatural in order to explain the world. The circumstances were right for the emergence of the Rococo movement in France in early 18th century and the shift from religious symmetry in design to asymmetric secular design.
It was in this atmosphere that Jeane Antoine Watteau –also known as the father of the Rococo movement- created his amazing paintings such as The Delights of Life (Cox,