Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance is an era in history where the art created in Italy is absolutely amazing.  The Renaissance started in the fourteenth century and ending around seventeenth century . The art created during this period has inspired us look for insight from the past. Giving us something that we would want to recreate, so help show the work from the past.  The Renaissance has brought us many different things that we still use in art today. Oil paintings, the most used thing in the Renaissance era, oil paintings are still popular to this day.  There were two other main painting techniques used in the Renaissance.  Fresco is where the painting and the wall become one thing. This is done when pigments and water are mixed and added to wet plaster.  The best part  of doing this is that the painting is durable. Tempera was also used, because it was a durable paint created by mixing egg and pigments. This became artist medium choice after the oil paintings were picked up in Italy.

My artist was very important to the Renaissance as he has created some of the best pieces of work from that time period. Da Vinci has created many well known painting, with the likes of John the Baptist and the Mona Lisa. This is why I feel that my artist was important to the Renaissance Era.

The painting I chose is the Mona Lisa. This is one of the most well known painting in the world. It was created in 1503-1506. This painting is made using oil paints. This painting is located at Musee du Louvre, Paris. I thought that this image would be good to do for this project as its well known and looks amazing.