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The art historian Jill Burke was the first to trace the historical origins of the term High Renaissance.It was first coined in German by Jacob Burckhardt in German (Hochrenaissance) in 1855 and has its origins in the "High Style" of painting and sculpture of the time period around the early 16th century described by Johann Joachim Winckelmann in 1764. [2]
Renaissance art (1350 – 1620 [1]) is the painting, sculpture, and decorative arts of the period of European history known as the Renaissance, which emerged as a distinct style in Italy in about AD 1400, in parallel with developments which occurred in philosophy, literature, music, science, and technology. [2]
Paintings from the Renaissance period in Western Europe, considered to have begun in the 14th century in Italy and the 16th century in northern Europe. See also Early Renaissance painting and Renaissance Classicism
The Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was the founding figure of the High Renaissance, and exhibited enormous influence on subsequent artists.Only around eight major works—The Adoration of the Magi, Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, the Louvre Virgin of the Rocks, The Last Supper, the ceiling of the Sala delle Asse, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist ...
Mannerism, beginning at the time of his death, and later the Baroque, took art "in a direction totally opposed" to Raphael's qualities; [96] "with Raphael's death, classic art—the High Renaissance—subsided", as Walter Friedländer put it. [97] He was soon seen as the ideal model by those disliking the excesses of Mannerism:
The Oxford High Street, depicted in a painting by JMW Turner in 1810, remains almost unchanged today, many art critics say. It's true that the buildings have remained the same, but the street is ...
1483: Raphael – Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance (died 1520) 1483: Chén Chún – Chinese artist specializing in "ink and wash" paintings (died 1544) 1483: Agostino Busti – High Renaissance Italian sculptor (died 1548) 1483: Il Pordenone – Italian painter of the Venetian school, active during the Renaissance (died 1539)
Italian Renaissance painting is most often divided into four periods: the Proto-Renaissance (1300–1425), the Early Renaissance (1425–1495), the High Renaissance (1495–1520), and Mannerism (1520–1600). The dates for these periods represent the overall trend in Italian painting and do not cover all painters as the lives of individual ...