Painting History: Greek, Egyptian, Etruscan, Medieval, Byzantine, Renaissance

We go back to the Quaternary period, ie the time of the caveman. Hundreds of centuries before our era, men and imitating living forms with lines and colors.

They were the cave men, whose way of life was reduced to hunting and fishing. In the caves of the Dordogne and the Pyrenees, left bones engravings, and the walls of the rock paintings of animals, colors are ocher and black.

In the caves of Altamira, was found a drawing of a bison, whose contours are accurate, the color varying intensity produces an embossed effect. This art (pieces of bone and ivory, cave paintings), at the margins conditions of historical art, so that they could be tried as a common measure.

That art is astonishing far, because it shows that these features could not have been traced, but by a highly trained human eye. These men knew the art of decoration, rather than the art of building.

It is possible that the painting and sculpture, originally human occupations have been more useful. Reinach noted that all animals represented by the caveman, are useful animals, herbivores used for food and transportation, and carnivores never attacked the man and he did not eat.

Egyptian painting, the Egyptians left a painting, while wise and incomplete, an old art before maturity.

Greek painting, is opposed to the Egyptian. Unlike the Egyptians, the Greeks were free from all worries of style. As they were proud of its architecture and sculpture, also felt the same for painting. There was a museum of paintings as the Propylaea.

Pliny the Elder, in the chapters of the two arts, gives greater exposure painters and sculptors. Although nothing remains of the great masterpieces from the origins of Alexandrian Hellenism to the works, thanks to the vessels preserved and decoration of his paintings, we can imagine as they would be painted the oil paintings of the sixth century BC (before Christ).

The paintings found in Pompeii and the Palatine, provide a transcript but not very good Hellenistic Greek painting. The Greek painting acquires a refined way to represent the shapes with their relief and mobility of bodies in space.

Etruscan painting, art most cultivated was that of painting. Colors sculptures and buildings. To collect data from Etruscan painting is necessary to go to the graves and study the documents found there.

Cracterística of Etruscan painting, drawing and stiff movements, conventional gestures, intended to mimic the real, default view, poverty palette (white, black, yellow, and red). In the second period (severe) drawing is about right. The sober composition, the enrriquece palette with blue, green and vermilion.

In the third period (etruscogreco), all traces of archaism disappears, is known to use chiaroscuro, the figures are drawn from the front, you know the perspective and technical resources.

In the scenes of the funeral ceremonies (first and second period), mythological scenes happen in Hellas, the Etruscan painter worthily compete with Greek figures replacing troubled, tragic sense.

Not easy to distinguish the Etruscans to the Greeks, if no attention is paid to the representations, which are often Etruscan demons and funeral rites, the drawing is less fine, the quality of the clay is less like the varnish .

Medieval Painting, Christian art was born in the catacombs, the underground Rome. The painting differs from the Greco-Roman Christian lesser technical accuracy and symbolism. The human figures, animals and the objects became ideographs.

The "turkey", dedicated to Juno, symbolized the resurrection, the "vine", dedicated to Bacchus, to symbolize the word of Christ, the "eagle of Jupiter and the Lion" of San Juan and St. Mark the Evangelist. "The Good Shepherd", likely transformation of Ermes Crióforo (Mercury with the lamb in tow), is the oldest representation of the person of Christ. Christians could not create a new beauty, imitated classical models.

Byzantine art national art was painting. In religious compositions, artists repertoires possessed by the monks given where they were told was to take place each character.

Painting in Renaissance Italian painting stands, the beginning of the fifteenth century is the most important time in the history of painting, being the true beginning of the modern era.

The fifteenth century in Florence offers a great improvement in artistic technique, later exploited by the great masters of expression such as Raphael and Michelangelo. The elements that contributed to humanism were Florentine art, the scientific study of linear perspective and area, and study the anatomy of the nude in action and at rest, the technical details and OleOle. Visit our Art Gallery!. Also I invite you to visit the Digital Library http://www.magazineofsales.com where to find items of proven quality for your personal and spiritual development: Work out (training courses), Health (Natural Treatments), Sports, Entertainment, Computing, Languages, and more.