NOUN
- the artistic style of early 16th century painting in Florence and Rome; characterized by technical mastery and heroic composition and humanistic content
How To Use High Renaissance In A Sentence
- Rather than High Renaissance men in tights, English Touring Theatre's Romeo And Juliet starts with men in fights.
- As in some of the palazzi of the High Renaissance, the plainness and heaviness of the ground floor, whose arches were open to the elements until 1862, makes a marked and deliberate contrast to the sculptural richness above.
- La Fornarina," the renowned art historian and MacArthur fellow Leo Steinberg explains, "is the closest thing to soft porn in the high Renaissance.
- These masterpieces of High Renaissance art, comparable to Michelangelo's ceiling paintings of the same chapel, normally cover the lower walls of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican and were displayed when major liturgical services were celebrated by the Pope. Constantin Bjerke: Finally United: Raphael's Cartoons From 1515 Meet the Tapestries Woven After Them (VIDEO)
- After Michelangelo and Raphael, he was the most important and variously creative artist of the Roman High Renaissance.
- The work is considered a masterpiece in the use of perspective and in the portrayal of the artistic ideals of the High Renaissance.
- Countless ethnogenic fables, both large as Trojan descent and as small as the metempsychosis of the Pythagorean soul, appear throughout the long medieval period from late antiquity to the so-called high Renaissance.
- Out of the art of the High Renaissance there developed a style characterized by a sense of extreme elegance and grace, which became known as Mannerism.
- The human body was the main preoccupation of High Renaissance artists and they often depicted it nude.
- The painting is in High Renaissance style: posed and not photorealistic, which doesn't distract the viewer from the Christian symbolism that defines the piece and also most of the era's artwork. Home