Imagery In Renaissance Art. Christian writers from the early medieval period through the renaissance also used botanical imagery as a means of explaining and interpreting religious beliefs. Kings popes medici family in florence were the most famous and wealthy patrons of the renaissance.
Animal imagery in renaissance art march 2014 renaissance quarterly 67 1 164 180 doi. Patrons commissioned artwork and decided the themes. Imagery in renaissance art we are faced with a paucity of relevant studies.
Art created during byzantine medieval and renaissance periods for example were religious in nature and contained many symbolic iconographies applied to the artworks by their respective artists.
Art created during byzantine medieval and renaissance periods for example were religious in nature and contained many symbolic iconographies applied to the artworks by their respective artists. The mystical image in renaissance art 89 without exception the source of pictorial light in renaissance painting. In rendering christian saints or martyrs 15th and 16th century italian artists often drew on prototypes or artistic principles that had originated in ancient representations of deities in order to similarly endow their biblical figures with. But the high renaissance preoccupation with ideal beauty which resulted in such serene and sometimes worldly mysti cal imagery was jolted and.