As we move towards the 15th century, we continue to witness a surge in Humanism, characterized by a general trend of revisiting the study of works from ancient Greco-Roman times. This, paired with the newly introduced printing technology, have helped popularize this wave of acquiring knowledge and thus, affect the way in which Art as a discipline is then being perceived. At this point in time, Florence is still operating under a Republic system, with a group of bourgeoisie (bankers & merchants) in charge. This goes hand in hand as well with the development of guilds\/ trade unions, dividing political power into even smaller sections and away from the central family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Directly connected by a competition held by the guild of wool merchants, the two most prominent figures of the time, Filippo Brunelleschi and Lorenzo Ghiberti create two distinct work of arts that showcase clearly each of their own stylistic viewpoint and unique execution: While Brunelleschi focuses more on a single narrative frame and portrays it in the most compositionally satisfying way, Ghiberti places emphasis on the story being told and the movement infused into an inanimate structure. Despite losing to Ghiberti in this instance, Brunelleschi had then chosen to go into a medium that eventually proves to be much better at showcasing his prowess with proportion and perspective – architecture. Further than that, he had become somewhat of a leader in a new, rational approach to architecture, in which mathematical ratios are utilized to create balance and harmony within the structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the integration of more mechanical techniques into art came the discovery of linear perspective, in which all shapes occupying the space of a painting are determined in relation to a horizon line and a collection of points where lines converge, known as vanishing points. An artist who masterfully integrate this technique, amongst many others, to represent depth and distance, is Donatello with \u201cThe feast of Herod\u201d, in which the thinness of the relief and the amount of details in the further background works together with linear perspective to tell a complete story, a complete narrative of what is happening within the frame, as if we\u2019re witnessing this incident happening in real time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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