Comparison And Contrast Of The Middle Ages And Renaissance
Comparison and Contrast of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Christine Henry
Western Governors University
Literature, Arts and Humanities
IWT1
October 20, 2014
Comparison and Contrast of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
This essay will compare and contrast the visual arts of the Middle Ages, called medieval art, with the arts of the Renaissance period by giving an overview of each period and illustrate how the collision between these two periods, and what influenced them, brought about new forms of visual artistic form and style.
The Middle Ages began after the fall of the Roman Empire around 476AD until the 1400s (Museum of Science, 1997). This time period marks widespread European focus on spirituality, salvation, life after death, heaven and hell, and doing good works. The Middle Ages were times of denying personal enjoyment with a …show more content…
The Renaissance elicited innovation of technology, creativity, and the ability to use individual impression to express ones self thereby influencing later art forms. In America, we are free thinkers, not bogged down by a dictatorship of religion and can freely express spirituality by our own interpretation. The Renaissance paved the way for new literature beyond theological writings of different genres of interest such as fiction, non-fiction, science fiction, poetry, romance, politics, philosophy and many others. Its influence architecturally is seen across our country with elements of ancient Roman/Greek architectural features in our nations capital with pillars and arches, and many cathedrals around the world. Seeing a Renaissance influence in our society today cannot be seen without in depth knowledge of its origin through the transition of the late Middle Ages by the revival of classical antiquity. Once this is accomplished, one can see the influence the Renaissance has had in many parts of the
Christine Henry
Western Governors University
Literature, Arts and Humanities
IWT1
October 20, 2014
Comparison and Contrast of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
This essay will compare and contrast the visual arts of the Middle Ages, called medieval art, with the arts of the Renaissance period by giving an overview of each period and illustrate how the collision between these two periods, and what influenced them, brought about new forms of visual artistic form and style.
The Middle Ages began after the fall of the Roman Empire around 476AD until the 1400s (Museum of Science, 1997). This time period marks widespread European focus on spirituality, salvation, life after death, heaven and hell, and doing good works. The Middle Ages were times of denying personal enjoyment with a …show more content…
The Renaissance elicited innovation of technology, creativity, and the ability to use individual impression to express ones self thereby influencing later art forms. In America, we are free thinkers, not bogged down by a dictatorship of religion and can freely express spirituality by our own interpretation. The Renaissance paved the way for new literature beyond theological writings of different genres of interest such as fiction, non-fiction, science fiction, poetry, romance, politics, philosophy and many others. Its influence architecturally is seen across our country with elements of ancient Roman/Greek architectural features in our nations capital with pillars and arches, and many cathedrals around the world. Seeing a Renaissance influence in our society today cannot be seen without in depth knowledge of its origin through the transition of the late Middle Ages by the revival of classical antiquity. Once this is accomplished, one can see the influence the Renaissance has had in many parts of the