High Rennaisance Art Essay - 599 Words

The High Renaissance was the culmination of the artistic revolution of the Early Renaissance, and one of the great explosions of creative genius in history.(1). During the Renaissance there were many drastic changes in the style of art. Giotto was a very influential painter, during the start of the Renaissance. In Giottos work he used three dimensional images; this was a drastic change from the classic art where depth was not used. His paintings were very realistic and life like, unlike the previous centuries art. Giottos work inspired artists by the likes of Leonardo de Vinci, and Michelangelo. Leonardo Da Vinci came to Rome in 1513, he was sixty-one.(2) Leonardo was a skilled artist, that painted many wonderful pictures that are known†¦show more content†¦It made Leonardo Da Vinci worry a little but he wasn’t too worried because he had a special way of painting that would make all his colors bright, which he thought Michelangelo would never be able to match.(5) After all this, Leonardo Da Vinci painted his painting but at the end, with his style, the painting was left sticky so he brought in a flame to heat the paint to dry it. While he was doing this all of the paint and work he had done melted and loosened, and all of the colors mixed. Again Michelangelo was the great one that painted the picture and Leonardo went into hiding. The â€Å"Mona Lisa† was discovered after all this. Another wonderful painting was the, â€Å"The Last Super.†(6) This picture was excellent because it had human personality, and it gave the picture its power and origi nality.(6) The faces had expressions on them, which made it realistic. It was a fresco painting on the wall of a monastery in Milan, and it showed Jesus breaking bread with his twelve apostles the night before his betrayal.(7). In the picture you can see the apostles on either side of Jesus leaning forward, throwing up their hands, pointing, falling back in dismay, and searching one another’s faces.(8). After