During the European Middle Ages, paintings and sculptures tended to be centered on the religious issue, especially in Christianity. But as the Renaissance emerged, the focus of arts moved to classical past, seeking influence in Ancient Greece and Rome, leading to profound changes in both technically and in terms of motifs and themes of painting and sculpture (reclaimed wood wall art).
This proportionality reached our days mainly due to conservation of Vitruvian texts during the Middle Ages, although it is likely that different treaties reflect different rules. In field of architecture, the most characteristic buildings of Greek arts are the temples, which are usually classified according to type of plants and order or style columns.
The Romans played many of Greek architectural schemes, but also introducing new elements such as the arch, as well as new techniques and materials. In Rome, on the other hand, the civil architecture will be even more important.
Egyptian architecture, strong-willed symbolic and great monuments, first used carved stone, in large blocks with a lintel construction system and solid columns. The most characteristic buildings of religious Egyptian architecture are the "complex of pyramids", temples and tombs (mastabas and hypogea). Few have been preserved remains of civil architecture, it was built with adobe.
Since the fall of Roman Empire, many of arts techniques of ancient Greece were lost, leading to medieval painting to be mostly two dimensional. As there was no notion of perspective in arts, the people portrayed were older or younger painted according to their importance. Along with painting, tapestry was the most important form of medieval arts, considering that the tapestries were necessary to keep the heat inside the castle (built in stone) during winter. The most famous medieval tapestry is the cycle The Lady and the Unicorn.
Mannerism is a period of transition and profound crisis of arts. Young arts, raised in veneration of office of his great predecessors (Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael) believe most ofse achievements insurmountable. Alternatives to continue its wake are tested: imitate the style -the maniera, which names the based on further complicate foreshortening and contrasts, or look strange colors and harmonies, or represent allegories strange that even in his time were obscure to uninitiated.
Baroque arts is often seen as parts of a strategy of Counter or Catholic reform: the arts element of rise of spiritual life of Catholic Church. To some arts historians the emphasis Baroque arts gives grandeur is seen as a reflection of Absolutism. Louis XIV of France said: "I am the embodiment of grandeur", and many Baroque arts served kings seeking the same goal. However, the Baroque love of detail is often regarded as the result of excessive ornamentalism, somehow, vulgar, especially when the Baroque evolves into decorative Rococo style.
It should be noted that the people in Middle Ages did not have the habit of reading, and very few had access to writing and could read. Therefore, arts was a way to spread in society the doctrine of Christianity. It is difficult to identify individual arts in this period, except for some foreman in architectural construction, and most of works are by anonymous authors. The Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci is the symbol of humanistic spirit of Renaissance. The arts of this period A period reflects do arts design features: classicism, reason and symmetry.
This proportionality reached our days mainly due to conservation of Vitruvian texts during the Middle Ages, although it is likely that different treaties reflect different rules. In field of architecture, the most characteristic buildings of Greek arts are the temples, which are usually classified according to type of plants and order or style columns.
The Romans played many of Greek architectural schemes, but also introducing new elements such as the arch, as well as new techniques and materials. In Rome, on the other hand, the civil architecture will be even more important.
Egyptian architecture, strong-willed symbolic and great monuments, first used carved stone, in large blocks with a lintel construction system and solid columns. The most characteristic buildings of religious Egyptian architecture are the "complex of pyramids", temples and tombs (mastabas and hypogea). Few have been preserved remains of civil architecture, it was built with adobe.
Since the fall of Roman Empire, many of arts techniques of ancient Greece were lost, leading to medieval painting to be mostly two dimensional. As there was no notion of perspective in arts, the people portrayed were older or younger painted according to their importance. Along with painting, tapestry was the most important form of medieval arts, considering that the tapestries were necessary to keep the heat inside the castle (built in stone) during winter. The most famous medieval tapestry is the cycle The Lady and the Unicorn.
Mannerism is a period of transition and profound crisis of arts. Young arts, raised in veneration of office of his great predecessors (Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael) believe most ofse achievements insurmountable. Alternatives to continue its wake are tested: imitate the style -the maniera, which names the based on further complicate foreshortening and contrasts, or look strange colors and harmonies, or represent allegories strange that even in his time were obscure to uninitiated.
Baroque arts is often seen as parts of a strategy of Counter or Catholic reform: the arts element of rise of spiritual life of Catholic Church. To some arts historians the emphasis Baroque arts gives grandeur is seen as a reflection of Absolutism. Louis XIV of France said: "I am the embodiment of grandeur", and many Baroque arts served kings seeking the same goal. However, the Baroque love of detail is often regarded as the result of excessive ornamentalism, somehow, vulgar, especially when the Baroque evolves into decorative Rococo style.
It should be noted that the people in Middle Ages did not have the habit of reading, and very few had access to writing and could read. Therefore, arts was a way to spread in society the doctrine of Christianity. It is difficult to identify individual arts in this period, except for some foreman in architectural construction, and most of works are by anonymous authors. The Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci is the symbol of humanistic spirit of Renaissance. The arts of this period A period reflects do arts design features: classicism, reason and symmetry.
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