Renaissance Art

The Middle Ages, the Early Renaissance, and the High Renaissance are only three ages individually but as a whole helped shape our modern philosophies and ideas of art and influenced generations of artists among them, Leonardo Da Vinci, Giovanni Bellini, and Giotto. Among there many works of art there stand out to me these three. Vitruvian Man 1492(Leonardo Da Vinci), Feast of the Gods (Giovanni Bellini), and Christus Rex (Giotto). The Late Gothic is the …

…as for the mysteriousness of its legendary smiling subject. This work is a consummate example of two techniques--sfumato and chiaroscuro--of which Leonardo was one of the first great masters. Leonardo deserves, perhaps more than anyone, the title of Homo Universalis, Universal Man. In my opinion these three works of art along with the sheer genius of the men that created them, is what created our very structure and creativities of today's artist and tomorrows visionaries