Renaissance Painters

Renaissance painters such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni and Tintoretto were a defined as the High Renaissance artist in their age. Although they were all artist of the same phase but they decided to express art in different ways, in order to bring back the art work of Rome into their Glorious age. Leonardo Da Vinci focuses more on scientific researches and a broad variety of art works such as painting, sculptures and architecture. While Michelangelo focuses more sculpture, with his sculpture ‘David’ he successfully pushes the limit of sculpture into the highest point by the time. Tintoretto still remained his effort on paintings as he painted another version of ‘The Last Supper’, changes in the renaissance art was distinct compared to the work of Da Vinci. Michelangelo’s ‘The Last Judgment’ shows similarity between Da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’ they both may be trying to express common idea to its viewer, However ‘The Last Supper’ painted by Tintoretto may have great difference with the one that Da Vinci Painted. The painting ‘The last Judgment’ by Michelangelo might have shown the similar topic as the ‘The Last Supper’ by Da Vinci. Both of the paintings were painted on walls and are both huge in size. Firstly, it would be the technique on how the paintings were painted, as Da Vinci’s defined the Golden Ratio, based on pictures of his painting ‘The Last Supper’, it has implemented some signs of symmetry. Jesus Christ seats right in the middle of table as the people who surround the table are seated equally spreading beside Jesus Christ. The sign of symmetry might also be implemented in Michelangelo’s ‘The Last Judgment”. According to pictures of the painting, as Jesus Christ also stands in the middle of painting, Angels and Saints surrounds him in a very equal phase, The heaven shown on the top of the painting were divided into two, this may have indicate the sign of symmetry also. The sign of Symmetry may be represent the idea

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