KEY IDEAS- HIGH RENAISSANCE (1495-1520)

• Revitalization of the city of Rome under Pope Julius II

• All about Roman Grandeur by producing awe inspiring artistic projects

• Key Points: Symmetry, Balance, Ideal Proportions, Triangular compositions

• Venetian Painters stress sensuous forms with sophisticated color combos

• Portraits are of true likeness and personalities

• Renaissance = Before sack of Rome

• Mannerism = After 1527

KEY IDEAS- MANNERISM (1520-1600)

• Mannerist art is deliberately intellectual, asking the viewer to respond in a sophisticated way to the spatial challenges 

• Complicated compositions, distorted figures, complex allegorical interpretations

QUICK HISTORY

• Renaissance means a "rebirth" suggesting that the 15th and 16th centuries marked an awakening from the "dark ages". The dark ages were actually a great time period where Europe gave rise to laws, language and economics. 

• New rise to secularism- not a huge focus on the hereafter

• After the Protestant Reformation in 1517, High Renaissance art was not reflective of so called perfect world. The complexities of Mannerist art better describe this period.

• Rome was sacked in 1527 by Charles V against France, Milan, Venic, Florence, and the Papacy

• The Council of Trent (1545-1563) or the Counter-Reformation, created a new order of priests, the Jesuits. 

• Jesuits used art as a teaching tool and a religious statement.