Renaissance Case Studies Samples For Students

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Renaissance
The Renaissance was a crucial period in European history, which started roughly around the fourteenth century and lasted till the seventeenth century. It marked a process of creativity and cultural change in Europe, which first started in Italy during the 1300s and gradually spread around the entire continent in the subsequent two centuries. In the twelfth century, Italy witnessed an economic boom and as a result the people were wealthier and cities and towns grew at an accelerated rate. This phenomenon gave birth to a new breed of intellectuals who were termed as the ‘middle elite’. The educated middle class people ...

The Northern Renaissance is an interesting period in the history of art and artists like Rogier Van der Weyden have produced works that are still admired today. One of his paintings, the Crucifixion, will be examined in this short essay.
The painting was created with oil colors on oak panels and the technique of dendrochronology dates it to c. 1460. It consists of two rectangular panels joined together to form one entity. In the 1990’s it was reconstructed and X rays showed dowel holes that suggest that it was probably part of a bigger sculptural structure, perhaps an ...

Ancient Egypt The Egyptian applies symbolic art that is highly developed to depict a complicated realistic mixture. Symbolism plays a part in establishing order. The hierarchical scale of a drawing depicts the importance in the society.
Cartouche: This is an oval with a horizontal line in one end to depict a royal name. A cartouche replaces the earlier serekh. It uses the horizontal line for the name to fit.
Gothe style The French in 12 A.D apply this style of medieval art that encompasses sophistication due to the use of figurative, illumination of manuscripts, and fresco.
St. Denis, Laon, Notre Dame, ...