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Your favorite High Renesaince art

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yourthemannowdog
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Just wondering how many people on here enjoy there classical art.

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Apr 5 2011 8:15PM
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TWoods
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I Traveled to Italy a while back, 70 percent of the trip was wandering around and looking at the art there. The whole place is wonderful. I have a notebook full of favorites, I'll pull it out sometime and start posting.
Apr 5 2011 8:34PM
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yourthemannowdog
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I wanna go to italy so badly and visit the Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, the Sistine chapel, and see all of Michelangelo's famous works. I visted le louve in paris and i have been to the cloisters in nyc at least two dozen times.
Apr 5 2011 9:42PM
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TWoods
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I would have loved to have seen the last supper, etc, but we flew out of Milan and came from visiting family in Santa Giuletta in the country, went to Mass in the Cathedral of Milan but didn't have time to go to Santa Maria.

Seeing the sistine chapel was pretty wonderful. I really liked a lot of the Michaelangelo, but I was more impressed with some other artists. Seeing the Berninis in Rome was pretty incredible, and we saw a ton of Giotto including all the work he did in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, and the Scrovegni Chapel. Another standout was the works or Signorelli in the Orvieto Cathedral, another last judgement piece.
Apr 6 2011 11:38AM
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skichicky3
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I'm taking an art history course right now, and we just talked about the High Renaissance. I'm definitely a fan of Michelangelo, Da Vinci, and Raphael, but I'm more of a fan of the Baroque period, especially Caravaggio's work.

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Apr 6 2011 2:53PM
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yourthemannowdog
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Caravaggio is great. I like the northern renesaince art too, but i feel that the high renesaince in italy is where art was perfected physically. Carvaggio, brueghel, and the van ekck are all amazing artists. I wish i had access to an art history course but i have a few books that have guided me through my curiosities. I still am looking for a good book on the post impresionist such as van gogh and monet.
Apr 6 2011 3:45PM
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TWoods
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The Uffizi in Florence had a Carravaggio special exhibit when we were there. Got to stand a couple inches away from "Judith Beheading Holofernes". It was pretty great.
Apr 6 2011 3:54PM
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skichicky3
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thats so awesome, I'm slightly jealous.

I dunno though, I might have to disagree with you on saying that the High Renaissance was when art was really perfected. I guess you could argue both ways. I feel like art got more sculptural looking at the time (more realistic) compared to before when there was no perspective in any of the paintings, such as during the Byzantine and Gothic periods, where the figures were quite flat. However, during the Baroque period they really perfected it, introducing a new dramatization of light that really made scenes look realisitic, i.e. Caravaggio and his followers.

Apr 6 2011 4:55PM
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yourthemannowdog
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No perspective? Linear perspective was first developed during the early renesaince. Massacio was the first to use it
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It might have been primitive, but linear perspective was developed and perfected during the Italian renaissance.

Titian pushed linear perspective to it's limits during the Italian Renaissance and certainly did not make figures look flat. Titian's Venus of Urbino is a great example of his use of linear perspective.
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I agree that it wasn't as profound as the perspective in that used in the Baroque.
Apr 6 2011 6:17PM
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skichicky3
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I don't think I said there was no linear perspective during the High Renaissance? If I did, I meant that it wasn't used BEFORE the high renaissance (as in Gothic, Byzantine, etc), well sort of. Massacio was actually not the first person to use it, Brunelleschi was during the 15th century.
Apr 6 2011 6:49PM
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skichicky3
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btw, +K for one of the better quality threads i've seen on NS in a while.
Apr 6 2011 6:51PM
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SkiThe603
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i wish i had a favorite, i just like looking at it all. it is fucking amazing

Apr 6 2011 7:46PM
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