Renaissance

Renaissance comes from the meaning 'rebirth' it was named this from the new outlooks on the world after the fall of the Roman Empire. People started to think that there was more to the world than gods creations and there was a much greater theories to the meanings of the world.

Thousands year ago the arts were once flourishing. Then the fall of the Roman Empire happened and this started to change the way that art was influenced and is where the rebirth of art comes to life.  A lot of people think this is the century where the best pieces of art were created. They focused less on the power of the church and religion and instead were elaborate pieces of art that showed the development of science and new creations. Instead of trading new pieces of art they were trading new ideas, theories and eventually discoveries.

Michelangelo 

Michelangelo was one of the great artist in the time of the renaissance. He painted huge pieces across ceilings and created giant sculptures of the human forms. He managed stun people with his accuracy to detail with his human forms. He managed to create a true likeness and showed muscle definition and veins in his work. He was able to understand and create the human form by practicing dissection.




He was completely dedicated to his work and with this dedication he managed to create breath taking works of art such as the Sistine Chapel ceiling where he would have had to stand on scaffolding and paint nearly 16000 squared feet while being 70 foot in the air. This was a huge project which was completed 4 years later. This made him a bit of a celebrity and a wealthy artist.

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Pre - Columbian American Art

Columbian art was mainly popular in Mexico and Peru and there seemed to be a bit of a competition between the two countries work. But Mexico seemed to stand out at the time with their interesting architecture that had the look of a pyramid but the feel of a temple. Mexico may have been in the lead at the time with the architecture but because of Peru's coastal dry climate it has managed to preserve delicate materials more of a textiles substances.
   

Lick in the times of cave painting they are still doing stone painting in the beginnings of civilisation. But rather that it being about dancing animals in the light of a flame, it is more of gods and their powers. There are a lot of paintings of the rain gods this will be because farming has started and they want rain for the new crops. But unlike the cave paintings you don’t have to guess as much about what the paintings are showing, as they are more detailed. But with gods came serpents and these are also shown in the paintings in their own isolated band. 

I found this image on google but it looks really simelar to the ones I have seen in books like 'AcentArts of the Americans' it must have been a well seen images and thats what people actually thought the god looked like as they are all the same colours and shapes. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Tetitla_Teotihuacan_Great_Goddess_mural_(Abracapocus).jpg