Renaissance vs. High Renaissance?

Question

What is the difference between Renaissance art and High Renaissance art? Like is it different in technique, fundamentals, style or anything.

Answer 1

The word "Renaissance" has to be understood in a wider meaning. It does not only describe the return of ancient culture, but it also symbolizes the unprecedented ascension of the literature, painting and architecture, as the golden age of human genius. Neither of the epochs produced such a great quantity of prominent figures in every sphere of culture. There are still no more notorious and respected painters, than Leonardo da Vinci, Rafael, Michelangelo. Fine arts depict the ideals of Renaissance most brilliantly.

High Renaissance art is characterized by self-confident Humanism. Here we see artists admiring classical art and architecture as a way to show off their classical knowledge or for a patron who commissioned these works to seem more knowledgeable about the world and its history.

Answer 2

Essentially, it is just a matter of degree. What began in the Early Renaissance was perfected in the High Renaissance. Civilization's Arts all achieved high levels in ancient Greece, but there was somewhat inferior imitation of it when Rome conquered Greece and great deterioration when barbarians conquered Rome. Indeed, there was a Dark Ages. The Greek painters Zeuxis and Apelles were supreme for about two millennia. Then, about 1400 in Italy, artists sought to equal the Greeks. Three men did achieve that dream: Raphael Urbino most of all, Leonardo da Vinci and Michaelangelo Buonorotti. Their mode of painting is called the Mode of Relief, for such paintings are analogous to colored sculpture. The earlier paintings resemble low relief sculpture, while the late ones are like sculpture in the round. Oil paints were perfected in the Renaissance and allowed much advancement over tempera, fresco, etc.. Some experiments with the new medium didn't work so well, eg. da Vinci'sw "Last Supper" soon faded badly and required restoration.

Answer 3

It's all to do with time measurement.

The early Renaissance usualy includes artists born before 1475 such as;

Donatello (Italian, 1386-1466)
Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro da Mugello) (Italian, 1387-1455)
Antonio Pisanello (Italian, before 1395-1455?)
Andrea Mantegna (Italian, c. 1429-1506)
Giovanni Bellini (Italian, 1430?-1516)
Sandro Botticelli (Italian, c. 1445-1510)
Domenico Ghirlandaio (Italian, 1449-1494)
Sebastiano Mainardi (Italian, 1450-1513)
Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452-1519)
Tilmann Riemenschneider (German, c. 1460-1531)

High Renaissance artists were generally born after 1470 and include the following;

Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528)
Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475-1564)
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) (Italian, 1483-1520)
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian [Venetian], c. 1485/90-1576)
Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Jacopo di Guasparre) (Italy, Florence, 1494-1540)
Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) (Italian [Venetian], 1518-1594)
Giambologna (Giovanni da Bologna) (Italian, 1529-1608

Some artists did overlap for example Leonardo was born before the high Renaissance but his late works were produced during that period.

Answer 4

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