The Quattrocento
Six Paintings. One Concept
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The early Renaissance is also known as the "Quattrocento." It derives from Italian mille quattrocento meaning 1400, and refers to the 15th century.
The Renaissance is the "rebirth" of the models of beauty and harmony of the Greeks and Romans of Antiquity (where we can observe a concern for anatomical proportions, volume, perspective, gestures and movement, making the figures more "human.")
In the Quattrocento, the Renaissance took place mainly in the Florence of the Medici, the wealthy family that financially supported the artists. And it is no coincidence that that renewed interest in the human being —the focus was God and the Church until that moment— occurred first in that city: there, the artist's client was the powerful man and not the Church.
In the Cinquecento, the popes replaced the Medici as the main patrons of the arts, and therefore the epicenter of the Renaissance moved to Rome.
Recommended links:
Characteristic Elements of Renaissance Painting.
Artistic Movements I: from. Classical Antiquity to Rococo.
Fra Angelico and the Early Renaissance.
Piero della Francesca, the Master of Perspective.
Timeline: Moments of Andrea Mantegna.
The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli.
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