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Names In The Renaissance

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The Renaissance, a time period painted over like a great canvas with the names of legendary artists. People in the modern world know mostly the great names like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael, etc. These names have become ingrained in culture, so much so that the names have taken on a new persona of four animated turtles. But like any time period these names barely scratch the surface of a cornerstone in the history of art. Beginning in the 13th century, known as the Early Renaissance, the focus of art started to shift from a heavenly perspective down to a more human perspective. Sciences grew, knowledge of the human body expanded, and in turn this helped shape artistic trends like they were clay on a potter’s wheel. Great …show more content…

With guidance, much like someone mending soft earth into a sculpture, the passing on of knowledge to art students helped to form their names as benchmarks of art history, turning this time period into one of the greatest eras of …show more content…

Ideally, the determination to learn and study art would come at a young age, “Training usually began at an early age. Some boys were placed with a master before they were ten years old [... ] most boys were three or four years older than that when they began” (Italliano Resource). In comparison, becoming an artist was almost like becoming a page for a knight. One must move out from the home, live under an artist, and under the title of apprentice, must complete tasks such as “weeping, running errands, preparing the wooden panels for painting, and grinding and mixing pigments” (RenConnection) . If an apprentice was exceptional, the master would graduate the student and would allow them to complete their own pieces of art. Depending on what type of master one studied under, the art that an apprentice would learn varied from sculpturing marble, oil painting, or sketching, to name a few. From instruction from the master, learning how to draw statuettes became the natural progression of a student’s journey. (Italliano Resource). This helped students to “foster greater naturalism in Renaissance depictions of the human form” (Italliano Resource). The final step in becoming a master was to learn the technique of painting and drawing, understanding the techniques used such as fresco or oil painting. Should a student show enough skill to create professional

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