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History Of Italian Renaissance Art

Posted in Uncategorized | May 30th, 2011

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The Italian Renaissance Was Important For So Many Reasons

It really was a turning point in the history, and that’s why it practically means “rebirth.”

Some of the very best artwork in world history comes from the Italian Renaissance. Works of art like the “Mona Lisa” as well as “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci had been both made during this period, as was Michelangelo’s statue of David plus the painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

The musician Giovanni Palestrina was also a product of the Italian Renaissance and made up several delightful holy music ever written. His music continues to be performed even today, and he’s easily the most famous of all composers from this time period.

Such writers as Dante Alighieri, Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio produced some of the best works in the historical past of global literature. The 3 are excellent illustrations of Italian Renaissance authors. Dante’s “Divine Comedy” is usually viewed as one of the best literary works ever.

Heading back again to Leonardo da Vinci, not merely was he a great painter, but he was an inventor, mathematician, researcher and many other things. The term “Renaissance man” originates from people like Leonardo da Vinci, who were proficient in a number of educational specialties and occupations.

Niccolo Machiavelli is yet another example of a Renaissance man and was a fantastic writer and political thinker. His book “The Prince” is still read in most colleges and universities all over the world.

The Italian Renaissance spawned so many great thinkers, inventors, artists, musicians as well as writers that it is hard to imagine what the world might be like if it hadn’t been for the period. People still think about that phase of history with reverence and awe and wonder just how a lot of terrific and illuminated brains and historical figures came from a period of time right after the Dark Ages, when books were burned up.

Being an Irish-American, I have always been very keen on the book “How the Irish saved Civilization,” which describes how when the rest of Europe went to the Dark Ages, Ireland did not, and a lot of the great historical works of literature were preserved by Irish monks.

The Italian Renaissance art classes have provided us with a lot more art, music as well as literature that it enables you to recognize that there were far more Europeans that were thirsting for enlightenment also.

We usually put the words “boring” and “art” together but art classes will change the way you think about art. Painting lessons can show the wonders of mixed media art that many of us has yet to discover. Unleash the inner Picasso in you.

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