Blog #8 – Arts RLS “Why the Renaissance and its Art Were More Controversial Than We Think”
Link to the RLS: http://bigthink.com/Picture-This/why-the-renaissance-and-its-art-were-more-controversial-than-we-think Summary: The perception of the renaissance is changing. In the period known as the high renaissance, we see the works of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael. Negel explained that there is a new controversy of Renaissance art because of not everyone having been brought up through the ideals of the renaissance movement. Negal sees the high renaissance between the 1400s – 1500s between two ‘calm’ eras. In this time was the invention of the religious art. The search for the religious art would have begun with Negal and the debate of over the proper function of imagery. “ religious art as a distraction from the message of the image—a tension between the making of beautiful pictures and the making of pious pictures ” (University of Chicago 2015). The text goes on and on, the jest of it is that because we come from different time eras and differe