High Renaissance

n (Art Movements) a. the High Renaissance the period from about the 1490s to the 1520s in painting, sculpture, and architecture in Europe, esp in Italy, when the Renaissance ideals were considered to have been attained through the mastery of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphaelb. (as modifier): High Renaissance art.

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High Renaissance - the artistic style of early 16th century painting in Florence and Rome; characterized by technical mastery and heroic composition and humanistic contentartistic style, idiom - the style of a particular artist or school or movement; "an imaginative orchestral idiom"Renaissance, Renascence - the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries

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Refers to the culmination of the Italian Renaissance style in the late 16th century, characterized by the imitative use of the orders and Classical compositional arrangements.

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the period in Italian art history at the end of the 15th and during the first quarter of the 16th century; it heralded the highest, classical phase in the development of Renaissance art.

The main centers of the High Renaissance were Florence, Rome, and Venice (where the High Renaissance includes the 1530’s). The leading artists were Bramante, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Giorgione, and Titian. In High Renaissance architecture, sculpture, and painting the realism, humanism, and heroic ideals of the Renaissance, as well as their vitality and vividness, were crystallized and expressed with titanic force. Developing unusually quickly and in many directions, the art as a whole had a majestic, monumental character, a harmonic perfection, and a lofty idealistic structure. The principles of the period were reflected in a complex and varied manner throughout 16th-century Italian art and had a strong influence on all subsequent art. The characteristics of High Renaissance style were seen in the work of a number of German artists of the early 16th century (A. Dürer, H. Holbein).

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Wölfflin, H. Klassicheskoe iskusstvo. St. Petersburg, 1912. (Translated from German.)
Rotenberg, E. I. Iskusstvo Italii XVI veka. [Moscow, 1967.] (Pamiatniki mirovogo iskusstva, series 1, issue 1.)

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High Renaissance: interior of St. Peter’s, Rome A term referring primarily to the culmination of the Italian Renaissance style in the 16th century (cinquecento). Saint Peter’s in Rome is the most famous example.

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noun the artistic style of early 16th century painting in Florence and Rome

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