Renaissance Famous Paintings
November 10, 2009 | Famous Paintings
Famous paintings of Renaissance
The famous paintings of Renaissance art shows joy in human beauty and life’s pleasures. Renaissance art is more realistic than the art of the middle ages. Renaissance artists considered perspective how the way things look when they are close to something or far away. The renaissance artists portrayed these differences very beautifully. This is the reason that most of the famous paintings of the renaissance seem to have depth.
Famous paintings of the renaissance
Giotto is known as one of the first to paint famous paintings of the renaissance. Though Giotto lived more than a century before the beginning of the Renaissance, but his paintings were filled with real emotion. The art work during the Renaissance was based upon Giotto’s style.
Another famous artist of the age of renaissance is Botticelli. He was born in the Medici family. He painted portraits of the family and many religious pictures. He painted wall frescoes in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican in the year 1481-82 and it is one of the famous paintings from the renaissance era. His paintings were religious in nature.
A well know name in the world of art Leonardo da Vinci, born in 1452 in the village of Vinci began his career working for a master painter in Florence. In 1478, Leonardo set up his own workshop. Painting of Mona Lisa is one of his famous paintings of renaissance. People are still trying to find out the secret behind the smile of his Mona Lisa ever since he painted it. Another famous painting of renaissance by Leonardo is “Last Supper” in which the feelings of Jesus and his followers are portrayed very skillfully. These two paintings by Leonardo are still very famous paintings from the renaissance age.
With a trend toward renaissance famous paintings, artists in history began to render the human form. The closer artists came to Renaissance art the more classical, colossal, and ideal the figures became.
