The Renaissance wasn’t just a period of rebirth—it was a full-blown creative revolution. Artists were no longer just painting ...

During the Renaissance, a period of artistic and intellectual awakening, painters developed innovative techniques that ...

Before the invention of linear perspective, paintings looked a bit strange. If you wanted somebody to look like they were behind someone else, you sort of painted them on top of somebody else.

Artistic innovations. The Renaissance marked a shift towards realism and human emotion in art. Artists began to use techniques like linear perspective, chiaroscuro (the treatment of light and ...

Groundbreaking statues, paintings, and architecture—humanism in Florence and beyond. Around 1400, Europe rediscovered the aesthetics of ancient Greece and Rome. This rebirth of classical culture ...

Linear perspective is the overarching method of representing 3D objects on a 2D plane, ... He's widely considered the father of Early Renaissance in the art world, ...

Breaking new ground, Botticelli's iconic Renaissance masterpieces used Christian themes and classic myths to celebrate his patrons, the Medici. Perhaps his most famous work, Botticelli’s ...

Museum Raises $6 Million to Keep Rare Renaissance Painting in the U.K. ... Active in the late 15th century, his experiments with linear perspective, dimensionality, ...