15 Facts About Renaissance painting

Renaissance painting art took as its foundation the art of Classical antiquity, perceived as the noblest of ancient traditions, but transformed that tradition by absorbing recent developments in the art of Northern Europe and by applying contemporary scientific knowledge.

Scholars no longer believe that the Renaissance painting marked an abrupt break with medieval values, as is suggested by the French word renaissance, literally meaning "rebirth".

In many parts of Europe, Early Renaissance painting art was created in parallel with Late Medieval art.

The scholars of Renaissance painting period focused on present life and ways improve human life.

Contemporary with Giovanni Pisano, the Florentine painter Giotto developed a manner of figurative Renaissance painting that was unprecedentedly naturalistic, three-dimensional, lifelike and classicist, when compared with that of his contemporaries and teacher Cimabue.

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Treatment of the elements of perspective and light in Renaissance painting was of particular concern to 15th-century Florentine painters.

Renaissance painting carried this technique north and influenced the painters of Venice.

Style of Renaissance painting grew directly out of medieval Renaissance painting in tempera, on panels and illuminated manuscripts, and other forms such as stained glass; the medium of fresco was less common in northern Europe.

Renaissance painting's masterpiece is the triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights.

Renaissance painting perfected his technique in depicting it, while in his early twenties, by the creation of the enormous marble statue of David and the group Pieta, in the St Peter's Basilica, Rome.

Renaissance painting then set about an exploration of the expressive possibilities of the human anatomy.

In Northern Italy, the High Renaissance is represented primarily by members of the Venetian school, especially by the latter works of Giovanni Bellini, especially religious paintings, which include several large altarpieces of a type known as "Sacred Conversation", which show a group of saints around the enthroned Madonna.

The earliest works of Titian date from the era of the High Renaissance painting, including a massive altarpiece The Assumption of the Virgin which combines human action and drama with spectacular colour and atmosphere.

Renaissance painting influences began to appear in German art in the 15th century, but this trend was not widespread.

The rebirth of classical antiquity and Renaissance humanism resulted in many mythological and history paintings.