Comparing Art

The art of the Medieval period and the art of the Renaissance were very different. The Renaissance was a time of change, and that also went for the architecture. People were looking for knew knowledge, and that meant bringing back old ways of architecture as well as creating new methods of building. While in the gothic and Romanesque periods of the medieval times the cathedrals were either built like fortresses or open with lots of windows, the renaissance brought up new challenges; for example, creating a dome in Florence, Italy. Filippo Brunelleschi was called upon by the Medici family to complete a nearly impossible task. They wanted him to create a giant dome on their cathedral. He completed this task by looking back on ancient blueprints from Rome to get ideas of how to begin this task, as well as adding many of his own ideas. The Renaissance architecture is based very heavily on the architecture of Ancient Greece and Rome. The revival of ancient Greek and Roman work also went for all other categories of art. The art in the Middle Ages was the new popular style of the people at that time, something completely new. The renaissance art was not a completely knew style, but the ancient ways were thought to be genius, and so was the art of the Renaissance.

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