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Renaissance Art

Renaissance Art. `` Renaissance''--meaning ``rebirth''--is given to a period of broad cultural achievement spanning three centuries, the fourteenth through to the sixteenth centuries. Some of the main features of art during the Renaissance were.

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Renaissance Art

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  1. Renaissance Art

  2. ``Renaissance''--meaning ``rebirth''--is given to a period of broad cultural achievement spanning three centuries, thefourteenth through to the sixteenth centuries.

  3. Some of the main features of art during the Renaissance were.

  4. Humanism - A person who studied the classics was called a humanist. Humanists recreated classical styles in art, literature, and architecture.

  5. The Acropolis

  6. Foreshortening –portraying an object with the apparent shortening due to visual perspective.

  7. Foreshortening

  8. Symmetry – correct proportion of body parts, grouping of figures so that they are the same on both sides.

  9. Contrapposto – (counterpoise)To model the human form in a non-symmetrical, relaxed stance that appears realistic

  10. Sfumato -The technique of effecting a gradual transition from one colour to another.

  11. Sfumato

  12. Chiaroscuro - A term describing the handling of light and dark particularly in painting.

  13. Life and times of Botticelli

  14. Fra Filippo Lippi Coronation of the Virgin

  15. Lorenzo Medici

  16. Medici Palace

  17. Santa Maria

  18. The last supper

  19. Sandro Botticelli

  20. The Birth of Venus.By Botticelli

  21. VENUS

  22. Another Botticelli art work

  23. Khufu Khafre Menkaure

  24. THE ENDBY TOM BROWN

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