Essay On Northern Renaissance Art

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Renaissance artists have multiple cultural inspirations behind their art. This was because artists would travel, bring back their experiences and incorporate it into their own works. The Northern and Italian Renaissance period was influential on our world and future even though they had their differences. Northern Renaissance art was sharp and vivid. Artists mostly used oil paints and had very detailed artwork. Some of their subjects included their families and people in everyday life. Merchants mostly paid for the artwork. There were fewer nude paintings and fewer religious scenes than in the Italian Renaissance. Italian Renaissance art was soft and used pastels in their works. Their subjects included classical stories from Greece and Rome. …show more content…
He is considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. He was a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician, and writer. Because he had great knowledge in many areas, he was a polymath. He was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter, Verrocchio. Two of his works: the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper have unique positions as the most famous, reproduced, parodied portrait and religious painting of all time. Some of his other works are Vitruvian Man and St. John the Baptist.

Michelangelo Buonarroti is another famous artist during the Italian Renaissance. Buonarroti was a painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. He created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scene of Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. He also designed the dome of St. Peter's Basilica. Some of his works are The Pietà and The David.

Even though the Northern Renaissance and the Italian Renaissance were different, they do have some similarities. Both the Northern and Italian Renaissance artworks included some type of religious subjects and/or scenes. They also both glorified the love of Christ, power of God, and man and celebrated his accomplishments as an