What started the rebirth of art in the renaissance times?

Question

i am doing a project on renaissance artwork. i need to know some renaissance artists, what started the rebirth of art, what helped them with thier creations, what the feeling of thier art was, and i need to know some famous renaissance artwork. please i need help, ive been looking all night

Answer 1

The Renaissance patrons wanted art that showed joy in human beauty and life’s pleasures. Renaissance art is more lifelike than in the art of the Middle Ages. Renaissance artists studied perspective, or the differences in the way things look when they are close to something or far away. The artists painted in a way that showed these differences. As a result, their paintings seem to have depth.

An artist from Florence named Giotto was one of the first to paint in this new style. Giotto lived more than a century before the beginning of the Renaissance, but his paintings show real emotion. The bodies look solid, and the background of his paintings shows perspective. The art produced during the Renaissance would build upon Giotto’s style.

Michelangelo Buonarroti ~  sculptor, painter, architect.   Michelangelo was the greatest artist of his time. Between 1508 and 1512 Michelangelo painted the vaulted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

Leonardo da Vinci ~  Man of many accomplishments. Painter of 'Mona Lisa', and of the  'Last Supper'. He was  also a sculptor, an architect, and a man of science who did serious investigations into the natural and physical sciences, mathematics, mechanics, and engineering.

Botticelli, Sandro ~ Was a ward of the Medici family. He painted portraits of the family and many religious pictures. From 1481-82 he painted wall frescoes in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican. Most of his paintings were religious in nature.

Answer 2

Linear perspective was indeed a good part of it. Another aspect of it was that all kinds of new dye chemistries were being invented, new colors were possible based on that chemistry.

But your other answerers have said it all beyond that. Though the subject matter of much of the art of those times was religion, what was going on behind the scenes was the birth of modern science, making possible greater levels of graphic representation.

It was also around this time that the camera oscura came into existence, which made it possible for painters to 'trace light'...

look this up. It might be a revelation to you.

Answer 3

Linear perspective.  Specifically it was the combination of interests such as math, art, science , religion, and philosophy.