Renaissance sculpture and painting

3. RENAISSANCE SCULPTURE AND PAINTING -

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SCULPTURE Renaissance sculptors were strongly influenced by classical antiquity.

This inspired the importance they placed on the human body, proportion and balance.

They represented nudes.

In the Quattrocento: - The finest sculptures were made in Florence.

- The bronze doors of Florence cathedral, created by the sculptor Ghiberti, were called the Gates of Paradise.

- Donatello experimented with free-standing sculptures and equestrian statues tht were similar to representations of Roman emperors.

- In the Cinquecento (or High Renaissance): - Michelangelo was the oustanding sculptor.His marbles statues were very passionate, but they reflected the Renaissance qualities of harmony and balance.

3. RENAISSANCE SCULPTURE AND PAINTING PAINTING - Renaissance painting had the following characteristics: 1.

The use of perspective to show depth and make a scene look more realistic.

The painters showed idealised, perfectly proportioned figures.

They represented more varied subjects: portraits, scenes from the Bible and classical mythology.

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In the Quattrocento, Florentine painters like Masaccio and Boticelli refined the use of colour and perspective.

In the High Renaissance, the greates artists were: -

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Leonoardo da Vinci’s works included The Last Supper and The Mona Lisa (Gioconda) whose blurred outline was achieved by a technique called sfumato.

Michelangelo is famous for his frescoes in the Sistine Chapel.

Raphael used colour and composition perfectly in his paintings of the Madonna or Virgin.

In Venice, Titian (Tiziano) painted colourful and sensual works of art.