Renaissance Period Art Michelangelo. This brief period produced some of the most iconic and highly valued works in the history of art such as the mona lisa, the last supper and the sistine chapel ceiling. High renaissance art, which flourished for about 35 years, from the early 1490s to 1527, when rome was sacked by imperial troops, revolves around three towering figures:
Michelangelo was an immensely skilled sculptor, painter, poet and architect whose works epitomized the high renaissance period in italy. Simply put, the high renaissance period represented a culmination. The wave of renaissance touched upon many areas, particularly art, religion, literature, and politics.
Da vinci’s last supper, raphael’s the school of athens and michelangelo’s sistine chapel ceiling paintings are the masterpieces of this period and embody the elements of the high renaissance.
His works include the sistine chapel. Masters were often skilled in both painting and sculpture, and by studying the art of antiquity and adding their theoretical knowledge of mathematical perspective and new painting techniques, they produced truly unique works of art. Michelangelo’s chalk drawing, study of a man, was his analysis of the way he saw the body and the way it was shaped and saw the different positions. [mikeˈlandʒelo di lodoˈviːko ˌbwɔnarˈrɔːti siˈmoːni];