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Simply Art: Simply the best Simply Art Styles: High Renaissance  The High Renaissance is widely viewed as the greatest explosion of
creative genius in history. Even relatively minor painters active during
the period, such as Fra Bartolomeo and Mariotto Albertinelli, produced
works remarkable for their perfect harmony and total control of the
painterly mediums. Simply put, this period represented a culmination.
The tentative artistic explorations of the Proto-Renaissance, which
caught hold and flowered during the Early Renaissance, burst into full
bloom during the High Renaissance. Artists no longer pondered the art of
antiquity. They now had the tools, technology, training and confidence
to go their own way, secure in the knowledge that the artwork they were
creating was as good, or better, than anything that had been done
before. Additionally, the High Renaissance represented a convergence of
talent, an almost obscene wealth of talent, concentrated in the same
area during the same small window of time. It was truly astounding,
considering what the odds. The art of the High Renaissance sought a general, unified effect of pictorial representation or architectural composition, increasing the dramatic force and physical presence of a work of art and gathering its energies and forming a controlled equilibrium. Because Pope Julius II patronized many artists during this time, the movement was centered in Rome, instead of Florence as it had been during the Early Renaissance art period. Since the essential characteristic of High Renaissance art was its unity, a balance achieved as a matter of intuition, beyond the reach of rational knowledge or technical skill, the High Renaissance art style was destined to break up as soon as emphasis was shifted to favor any one element in the composition. The High Renaissance art style endured for only a brief period, 1495-1520, and was created by a few artists of genius, among them Leonardo da Vinci, Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian.  Leonardo da Vinci is considered the paragon of
Renaissance thinkers, engaged as he was in experiments of all kinds and
having brought to his art a spirit of restless inquiry that sought to
discover the laws governing diverse natural phenomena. The High
Renaissance is generally held to have emerged in the late 1490s, when
Leonardo da Vinci painted his Last Supper
in Milan. Michelangelo has come to typify the artist endowed with
inexplicable, solitary genius. His universal talents are exemplified by
the Tomb of Julius II, the Medici Chapel, the Sistine Chapel ceiling,
and Last Judgment. These artworks represent major and inimitable
accomplishments in the separate fields of sculpture, painting, and
architecture. High Renaissance sculpture, as exemplified by
Michelangelo's Pietàand
David, is characterized by the ideal
balance between statics and movement.Raphael was a High Renaissance painter and considered one of the greatest and most popular artists of all time. Usually known by his first name alone, Raphael Sanzio was an Italian painter and architect celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael evoked, in paintings of Madonna's and in frescoes, not overwhelming forces but sublime harmony and lyric, graceful beauty. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop, and despite his death at thirty-seven, a large body of his work remains. The paintings in the Vatican by Michelangelo and Raphael represent the culmination of the style in painting. |
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