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The Renaissance Period
Author: Raffaello Sanzio
The Renaissance was a period of European History, considered by modern Scholars to be between 1300 and 1600. Many dramatic changes happened during the Renaissance. The renaissance was a period of new inventions and beliefs. During a time when Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci were the prime artists In Europe, a young man by the name of Raffaello Sanzio was starting to attract major attention with his art work. The Italian high renaissance was marked by paintings Expressing human grandeur and very humanistic values. No one better portrayed the Italian high renaissance then Raffaello, with his paintings clarity and ease of composition, Raffaello was easily one of the greatest painters of this period.
The Renaissance was drastically different from the middle ages. During the Middle Ages churches held most of the power and its economy was agriculturally based. Exploration attempts were almost put to a stop. During the Renaissance society was transformed into a social party increasingly dominated by central political institutions with an urban commercial as people’s curiosity overcame their fear and many people started to venture out and enroll in schools and colleges became more and more common.
The Renaissance was started by many rich Italian cities, such as Florence and Venice. Because these cities were very wealthy, many merchants started to spend money on many different things, such as paintings, learning, new banking techniques, and new systems of government. These things gave rise to a new type of scholar, the humanist. Humanist is mainly concerned with humankind and culture. They studied various things such as Latin, Greek, and Literature and Philosophy. Music and Mathematics were also studied as well. So this paved the way for the great artist that we recognize today.
Born in an artistically influenced town of Italy called Urbanio, Raffaello was the first taught by his father, Giovanni Santi, how to compose works of art at a very early age. At the age of fourteen, Giovanni began to realize his son’s potential and sent him to a very talented teacher by the name of Pietro Perugino. Pietro lived from 1478 to 1520, and had a strong influence on Raphael’s early artworks. Perguino was an Urabrian painter who loved to incorporate beautiful lanRABcapes into his paintings. Raphael’s early works reserabled Perguino’s so much that paintings such as the crucifixion with the virgin, Saint John, Saint Jerome, and Saint Mary Magdalene were thought to be Raphael’s until the church of San Gimingniano proved that they were in fact Perguino’s. Unlike the other great painters of this time such as Michelangelo and Da Vinci, Raphael was born with a great understanding of art and required little instruction if any. Because of Raphael’s great understanding of the arts, he quickly surpassed his teacher and ventured out on his own to the great city of Florence in 1504.
At the same time Raphael arrived in Florence, the other great painters of time, Michelangelo and Leonardo were the popular painters of the city. Because of the competitive environment of Florence, Raphael adopted many new painting techniques such as shading, anatomy, and frozen action. Both Michelangelo’s and Da Vinci’s styles influenced Raphael while he was in Florence. Raphael’s energetic paintings with softness and balance such as the “The Small Cauper Madonna”, were influenced directly from Michelangelo. While in Florence a duke employed him to paint a “Dragon”, Raphael portrays Saint George as a brave warrior fighting against dragon right outside of it’s lair. In contrast to the action of the painting, the background is peaceful and serene. In the story of Christianity, syrabolizing the triumph of Christianity over all. Raphael stayed in Florence until he decided to go to Rome where he could branch out and away from his two competitors.
Once in Rome, Pope Julius II immediately commissioned Raphael because of his uncanny gift for painting sacred and secular paintings. Julius had Raphael paint the rooms of the Vatican apartment that brought life to the otherwise dull walls of the stanza. When Raphael arrived at the Vatican palace, Michelangelo was busy painting the Sistine Chapel Ceiling. Raphael started the stanza walls around 1508 and did not finish until 1511. Raphael had painted the walls to celebrate the four aspects of Human Accomplishment: Theology, Philosophy, Arts, and Law. When fused together these aspects marked the transition from the middle ages to modern times.
After he finished the frescos in the Vatican Palace, Raphael went on to fresco the Stanza d‘Eliodoro between the years of 1511 and 1514. Again Raphael depicted four Historical events that illustrated salvation by divine intervention with his unparalleled gift For painting Christian paintings.
Throughout Raphael’s artistic career, he went back to painting’s portraying the Madonna and child many times. The Madonna’s of this time were usually shown sitting on a throne, but Raphael painted her in the middle of a field which I believe added a realism without shattering her queenly image. Raphael painted more than 40 Madonna’s before his untimely death in 1520.
After suffering in bed for fifteen days, Raphael Sanzio died on his birthday at the young age of 37. Raphael seemed to blend harmony and balance perfectly into his paintings. If one analyzes Raphael’s works, there are reasons for the harmony and realistic perspective. Raphael looked back to ancient Roman Architecture when painting buildings, the subjects always came from antiquity, such as Plato and Socrates. The bodies of Raphael’s figures were muscular and idealized and full of motion and gestures, further adding to the realism. In the short thirty seven years of his life, Raphael summarized and epitomized the entire course of Italian humanism. Even though Raphael did not live as long as Leonardo or Michelangelo, he will always be ranked along with them as one of the greatest artist of all time.
References
Encyclopedia Britannia
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Raphael.html
http://www.televisual.net/uffiziraphael.html
http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/raphael/
Author: Raffaello Sanzio
The Renaissance was a period of European History, considered by modern Scholars to be between 1300 and 1600. Many dramatic changes happened during the Renaissance. The renaissance was a period of new inventions and beliefs. During a time when Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci were the prime artists In Europe, a young man by the name of Raffaello Sanzio was starting to attract major attention with his art work. The Italian high renaissance was marked by paintings Expressing human grandeur and very humanistic values. No one better portrayed the Italian high renaissance then Raffaello, with his paintings clarity and ease of composition, Raffaello was easily one of the greatest painters of this period.
The Renaissance was drastically different from the middle ages. During the Middle Ages churches held most of the power and its economy was agriculturally based. Exploration attempts were almost put to a stop. During the Renaissance society was transformed into a social party increasingly dominated by central political institutions with an urban commercial as people’s curiosity overcame their fear and many people started to venture out and enroll in schools and colleges became more and more common.
The Renaissance was started by many rich Italian cities, such as Florence and Venice. Because these cities were very wealthy, many merchants started to spend money on many different things, such as paintings, learning, new banking techniques, and new systems of government. These things gave rise to a new type of scholar, the humanist. Humanist is mainly concerned with humankind and culture. They studied various things such as Latin, Greek, and Literature and Philosophy. Music and Mathematics were also studied as well. So this paved the way for the great artist that we recognize today.
Born in an artistically influenced town of Italy called Urbanio, Raffaello was the first taught by his father, Giovanni Santi, how to compose works of art at a very early age. At the age of fourteen, Giovanni began to realize his son’s potential and sent him to a very talented teacher by the name of Pietro Perugino. Pietro lived from 1478 to 1520, and had a strong influence on Raphael’s early artworks. Perguino was an Urabrian painter who loved to incorporate beautiful lanRABcapes into his paintings. Raphael’s early works reserabled Perguino’s so much that paintings such as the crucifixion with the virgin, Saint John, Saint Jerome, and Saint Mary Magdalene were thought to be Raphael’s until the church of San Gimingniano proved that they were in fact Perguino’s. Unlike the other great painters of this time such as Michelangelo and Da Vinci, Raphael was born with a great understanding of art and required little instruction if any. Because of Raphael’s great understanding of the arts, he quickly surpassed his teacher and ventured out on his own to the great city of Florence in 1504.
At the same time Raphael arrived in Florence, the other great painters of time, Michelangelo and Leonardo were the popular painters of the city. Because of the competitive environment of Florence, Raphael adopted many new painting techniques such as shading, anatomy, and frozen action. Both Michelangelo’s and Da Vinci’s styles influenced Raphael while he was in Florence. Raphael’s energetic paintings with softness and balance such as the “The Small Cauper Madonna”, were influenced directly from Michelangelo. While in Florence a duke employed him to paint a “Dragon”, Raphael portrays Saint George as a brave warrior fighting against dragon right outside of it’s lair. In contrast to the action of the painting, the background is peaceful and serene. In the story of Christianity, syrabolizing the triumph of Christianity over all. Raphael stayed in Florence until he decided to go to Rome where he could branch out and away from his two competitors.
Once in Rome, Pope Julius II immediately commissioned Raphael because of his uncanny gift for painting sacred and secular paintings. Julius had Raphael paint the rooms of the Vatican apartment that brought life to the otherwise dull walls of the stanza. When Raphael arrived at the Vatican palace, Michelangelo was busy painting the Sistine Chapel Ceiling. Raphael started the stanza walls around 1508 and did not finish until 1511. Raphael had painted the walls to celebrate the four aspects of Human Accomplishment: Theology, Philosophy, Arts, and Law. When fused together these aspects marked the transition from the middle ages to modern times.
After he finished the frescos in the Vatican Palace, Raphael went on to fresco the Stanza d‘Eliodoro between the years of 1511 and 1514. Again Raphael depicted four Historical events that illustrated salvation by divine intervention with his unparalleled gift For painting Christian paintings.
Throughout Raphael’s artistic career, he went back to painting’s portraying the Madonna and child many times. The Madonna’s of this time were usually shown sitting on a throne, but Raphael painted her in the middle of a field which I believe added a realism without shattering her queenly image. Raphael painted more than 40 Madonna’s before his untimely death in 1520.
After suffering in bed for fifteen days, Raphael Sanzio died on his birthday at the young age of 37. Raphael seemed to blend harmony and balance perfectly into his paintings. If one analyzes Raphael’s works, there are reasons for the harmony and realistic perspective. Raphael looked back to ancient Roman Architecture when painting buildings, the subjects always came from antiquity, such as Plato and Socrates. The bodies of Raphael’s figures were muscular and idealized and full of motion and gestures, further adding to the realism. In the short thirty seven years of his life, Raphael summarized and epitomized the entire course of Italian humanism. Even though Raphael did not live as long as Leonardo or Michelangelo, he will always be ranked along with them as one of the greatest artist of all time.
References
Encyclopedia Britannia
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Raphael.html
http://www.televisual.net/uffiziraphael.html
http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/raphael/