leadership theories and analysis

The Renaissance was a rebirth of cultural awareness and learning that took place during 1400 - 1500. Art became a branch of learning during the Renaissance. It was a period of time when art was very important. Artists had finally recaptured the amazing detail and realism that the Greeks and Romans perfected. Artists broke boundaries with new exciting mediums and bright colors. Filippo Brunelleschi permitted artists to decide the proportional size of a figure by inventing the vanishing point perspective. This made it possible to put everything into perfect proportion. Many elderly people are found in the paintings. Such as Man in a Red Turban on page 270 fig. 15.34 or online at http://www.abcgallery.com/E/eyck/eyck3.html.

Renaissance symbolizes the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the development of the Modern world. Early Renaissance, mostly in Italy, links the art period during the fifteenth century, between the Middle Ages and the High Renaissance in Italy. It was commonly known that Renaissance developed in Northern Europe later, in 16th century. The rebirth is used to mark an era of extensive cultural achievement as a result of renewed interest in the classical art and ideas of Ancient Greece and Rome. The most important idea of rebirth stays with the belief that through learning of intellectual and artistic treasures of the Greco-Roman antiquity could reach the artistic greatness, wisdom and enlightenment. The rediscovery of classical world drastically changed the art of painting. By the year 1500, the Renaissance revived ancient forms and content. The spiritual content of painting changed - subjects from Roman history and mythology were borrowed. Devotional art of Christian orientation became classically humanized. As in the Holy Trinity on page 248 15.11 or online at http://www.inter-art.com/it/10207.htm.

Classical artistic principles, including harmonious parts, sensible expressions, and logical postures were followed. Two regions of Western Europe were mainly active during this artistic period. These were Flanders and Italy. Although the portrait also developed as a specific type in the mid-15th century, Renaissance painters reached the greatest freedom with history, pictures that located figures within a landscape or an architectural setting out of a specif...

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...th century as "Northern Renaissance," implying that the growth of style was not as clear cut or as speedy as it was in the South. There are a few quick and easy ways to recognize Northern Renaissance works of art (although they are not by any means complete, and the rules are not always followed) and to tell it apart from that of the South. In general, Northern Renaissance painting has the following characteristics:

Highly Realistic - There is almost no abstraction or distortion of either human forms or objects in Northern Renaissance art.

Extremely Detailed - Every detail, no matter how small, is painstakingly painted.

Symbolism - Objects are often used as symbols that carry hidden meanings.

Unidealized Figures - Human figures are totally unidealized. They often look thin and pale. There is almost no Classical influence here at all.

Printmaking - The use of woodcut becomes a common way to produce images.

The painting above, The Merode Altarpiece (c.1425),by Robert Campin, shows many of theses characteristics. It is typical of the style of painting we see coming out of the Netherlands during this time, which is commonly referred to as "Flemish painting."