Author Question: Provide some examples of High Renaissance art and architecture. What will be an ideal ... (Read 213 times)

mp14 · **on:** Sep 28, 2018

Provide some examples of High Renaissance art and architecture.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Which of the following painted The Birth of Venus sometime after 1482?

A.
Donatello

B. Masaccio
C. Botticelli
D. Brunelleschi

elizabethrperez · **Reply #1 on:** Sep 28, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Building from the principles of early Renaissance architecture, architects in the High Renaissance continued to expand on the Classical principles of form. Even more so than the early Renaissance, High Renaissance architecture sough clarity, mathematical order, and unity of design. Donato Bramante's reconstruction of Saint Peter's Cathedral, Andrea Palladio's Villa Rotonda near Vicenza, and Michelangelo's reconstruction of the dome at Saint Peter's Cathedral are all examples of High Renaissance architecture.

Answer to Question 2

C