Images of Devotion in Renaissance Art

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http://www.mrdowling.com/704-art.html
I find this site about Renaissance art. I read the paragraph that talk about the Renaissance art and how it comes. In this time, the art is more liflike than before in the Midle Ages. The artists learned the perspective, it makes the difference of looking in different views and distances. Giotto was the first one to painted like that. Even he lived more than a century before the beginning of the Renaissance, he paintings show real life.

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The last supper
by Leonardo da Vinci
1495-1497


This painting, he gets out of old ways that because the Jesus is noble, he painted him with his other twelve adherents. In the nervous atmosphere, Jesus opens his hands and mkes the painting in triangle. He gave every character a different expressions and plentiful moods.

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Mona Lisa
by Leonardo da Vinci
1503-1505


In this painting, it is the first time he use his new way to paint. It called"sfumato" to make the feeling of the space. It just like mixing me the nature.
And also, the month of the woman in the painting is special. Her eyes will always looking at you. Even you walk around. Although the technique is easy, but the person and the background looked very harmonious, let it became a very famous painting in the world.

Apprenticeship and workshops in the Renaissance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael#Workshop
This site is about a artist called Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino. But we often heard only the name Raphael. He was a Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. He, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci together form a traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael had a workshop with fifty pupils and assistants. It can arguably the largest workshop team assemble under any single old master painter.
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http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/main/bellini.html
This site is about a man called Giovanni Bellini. He was the most important painter active in Venice of the late 15th Century. He also had a sister, and she was a painter, too. When he wasn't a popular painter. He worked in his father's workshop and he was an apprentice. When he was good at painting. He taught Giorgione and Titian, they also outdid their own teacher later. After he died for a while, his greatest works were destroyed in a church fire in the year of 1577.
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They life bertween them and us were very different. They had to leaned by them self if they want to learn some special crafts. And be like a servant under the master. Now, learning crafts are not very difficult. You can pay money for it to learn. And teacher will be kind of you. Our art class system just like cram school, not like being like a servant before. However, they most important things to learn crafts is not these. Most important is to workhard. It is a truth that will never change.