ART H205 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Joshua Reynolds, Renaissance Art
24 Sep 2016
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La font de saint-yenne (of fr) and joshua reynolds ( of br) La font advocated the creation of a public art museum for this purpose cited the works of such 17th c fr history painters as charles le brun (1619-1690), eustache le. Reynolds singled out italian renaissance artists michelangelo and raphael as masters for yound art students to emulate. These artists had created works by starting out with significant subjects and eloquent conceptions and realizing them with masterful compositions and perfect execution. Both were well aware that michelangelo and raphael in the 16th c and le brun and poussin in the 17th c had looked to classical art for inspiration. Felt that the study of classical sculpture was as important as that of renaissance painting. As the 18th c progressed artists went beyong the 17th and 16th c painting to find, in antiquity, the models for a new art .
