Renaissance is the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models. In the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries. It is the culture and style of art and architecture developed during this rebirth period of European civilization. “Renaissance achieved its sharpest formulation in the form of art. Art came to be seen as an art of knowledge.” ("Renaissance art". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2016. Web. 16 Nov. 2016 .)
The renaissance intellectual basis was its own version of humanism. The renaissance humanism as we searched online is the study of classical antiquity. It started in Italy and then spreading across Western Europe in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries. Humanist …show more content…
Giotto is an Italian painter that shows a new pictorial style, simple structure and great psychological penetration of art.” ("Renaissance art". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2016. Web. 16 Nov .2016 .). He is known as the most important Italian painter of the 14th century. He is also the first painter who paints with perspective. He believes that his paintings look more real using perspective. His works point to the innovations of the renaissance. Giotto has been revered as the father of the European painting. He is also the first of the great Italian masters. He also decorated chapels in Assisi, Padua, Florence, Rome and Naples. Most of his works are documented and it is being said that the stylistic chronology and attribution of his paintings remain highly speculative and often problematic. Basing on what we can study about Giotto, he was a shepherd boy, an intelligent and merry child who was loved by all who knew him. He was discovered of drawing pictures of his sheep on a rock. He was then asked to be an apprentice of the great Florentine painter …show more content…
He drew a red circle that is so perfect like as if it was drawn using compasses. The messenger related how he made a circle without using compasses and without moving his arm the Pope were amazed at Giotto's skill and greatly surpassed all of his contemporaries. As I was reading how Giotto drew a perfect circle without any means of measurements or movement on his arm I was speechless. Speechless to understand more of how he started and what is the story behind on each great works he made. One of his great works is, Saint Francis Preaches to the Birds. The painting was made at around 1297 - 1299. In order for us to understand the story behind the painting. There was a lot of reading, searching, and understanding for each in every life of the people involved in the
The renaissance intellectual basis was its own version of humanism. The renaissance humanism as we searched online is the study of classical antiquity. It started in Italy and then spreading across Western Europe in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries. Humanist …show more content…
Giotto is an Italian painter that shows a new pictorial style, simple structure and great psychological penetration of art.” ("Renaissance art". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2016. Web. 16 Nov .2016 .). He is known as the most important Italian painter of the 14th century. He is also the first painter who paints with perspective. He believes that his paintings look more real using perspective. His works point to the innovations of the renaissance. Giotto has been revered as the father of the European painting. He is also the first of the great Italian masters. He also decorated chapels in Assisi, Padua, Florence, Rome and Naples. Most of his works are documented and it is being said that the stylistic chronology and attribution of his paintings remain highly speculative and often problematic. Basing on what we can study about Giotto, he was a shepherd boy, an intelligent and merry child who was loved by all who knew him. He was discovered of drawing pictures of his sheep on a rock. He was then asked to be an apprentice of the great Florentine painter …show more content…
He drew a red circle that is so perfect like as if it was drawn using compasses. The messenger related how he made a circle without using compasses and without moving his arm the Pope were amazed at Giotto's skill and greatly surpassed all of his contemporaries. As I was reading how Giotto drew a perfect circle without any means of measurements or movement on his arm I was speechless. Speechless to understand more of how he started and what is the story behind on each great works he made. One of his great works is, Saint Francis Preaches to the Birds. The painting was made at around 1297 - 1299. In order for us to understand the story behind the painting. There was a lot of reading, searching, and understanding for each in every life of the people involved in the