how does leonardo da vinci's art differ from Medieval art?

Answer 1

Leonardo was a Renaissance painter and his work was painted using perspective which gives dimension to a work. Medieval art lacked perspective and looked very flat in comparrison as it wasn't until the early Renaissance that Brunelleschi discovered single line perspective. Painters like Leonardo would have learned some geometry in order to be able to draw perspective grids on which to draw and paint.

During Medieval times the biggest patron of art was the church therefore there were many religious paintings produced. The religious icons were often very large when comparred to their surroundings and buildings etc. This was simply to portray their importance. They were often painted with elaborate gilded halos also. Leonardo's paintings tended to be very different than this. During the Renaissance, the church were still great patrons of art but wealthy merchants and the powerful guilds also became patrons. Families such as the Medici comissioned paintings of classical allegory and so the face of art changed. This among other reasons that we'll not go into here, led to the birth of Humanism. Humanism is any attitude that gives priority to human endeavors, their values, capacities, worth, interests, needs, and welfare, rather than to those of the gods, the spirits, the animals, or any other non-human thing. Also, the study of the humanities. The term is frequently qualified, as in "Renaissance humanism," which is characterized by a love of the achievements of the Greco-Roman world, an optimism that humans are inherently endowed with the skills necessary to reshape the world according to their own needs, and a belief in inherent human dignity. While the Renaissance humanists did not see their enlightened self-interest as a contradiction of their Christianity, a few recent demagogues identify "secular humanism" as a tacitly atheistic preoccupation with human affairs.
Leonardo was a Humanist and he painted religious subjects as a humanist. In the Adoration of the Magi he painted the christ child touching one of the other subjects and thus making contact with the human world. In his painting of the Virgin, Saint Anne and Jesus with the lamb he gave the subjects a humanistic portrayal. Mary and St Anne look on with pride as the little toddler (Jesus) squeezes the lamb just a little too much with the over zealous love which only a small child can possess.

The painting techniques that Leonardo used were different to some of those used during the Medieval era. He invented a technique called sfumato which means in smoke. Look at the Mona Lisa to see how this works. Also you can look at his fresco of The Last Supper to see how experimentation with new methods can go very very wrong.

I hope this is of some help to you.

Answer 2

Da Vinci was of the Renaissance in art that took place as learning from the Greeks and Romans was rediscovered. Medieval art is flat and does not have a sense of perspective and the sculpture tends to be straight on and has no sense of turning at the hips or waist. renaissance art in contrast was full of perspective (things really looked to be in the distance or in front of something) glass objects appeared to shine and the details on faces were realistic.

Answer 3

RENAISSANCE that is the difference, look it up

Answer 4

Not sure how to answer this one

Answer 5

it depends...