What religious development in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries most encouraged the Baroque style in Italian art?
The popularity of the Baroque style was encouraged by the Catholic Church, which had decided at the Council of Trent that the arts should communicate religious themes and direct emotional involvement in response to the Protestant Reformation .
What historical movement forms the background to papal artistic commissions of the mid 16th century?
The Renaissance
What are the art terminology?
- Abstract. A term generally used to describe art that is not representational or based on external reality or nature.
- Abstract Expressionism.
- Abstraction.
- Academic.
- Action painting.
- Actuality.
- Aesthetic.
- Allover painting.
What artists are identified with the style of the early Renaissance?
The style of painting, sculpture and decorative arts identified with the Renaissance emerged in Italy in the late 14th century; it reached its zenith in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, in the work of Italian masters such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael.
Should the Renaissance be considered a rebirth?
The Renaissance was a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages. Generally described as taking place from the 14th century to the 17th century, the Renaissance promoted the rediscovery of classical philosophy, literature and art.
What important things happened in the Renaissance?
- 1400 to 1450: The Rise of Rome and the de Medici Family. Danita Delimont / Getty Images.
- 1451 to 1475: Leonardo da Vinci and the Gutenberg Bible. Chris Hellier / Getty Images.
- 1476 to 1500: The Age of Exploration.
- 1501 to 1550: Politics and the Reformation.
- 1550 and Beyond: The Peace of Augsburg.