The focal point of the picture in my opinion is the house in the middleground. We can assume this because the children pictured here are circled around the house which is placed in the center of the image. The lighter leaves behind the house also bring it forward and help it not to be lost in the greenery of the hills. [I’m not sure how to answer the EOA question.] Movement is shown in the ups and downs of the hills and in the placement of the children’s feet and angle their bodies are turned to. We can infer that they are interested in something that isn’t shown in the image. Proportion is used by this artist in order to emphasize the important parts of the story told by the image.
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Painting by Pablo Picasso
If so, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press in 1440 clearly had a significant influence on the dissemination of knowledge during the period. The printing press spread rapidly thought Europe, although not in Russia or the Ottoman Empire, with 20 million books printed by 1500, and 1 billion works printed by 1800.
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Many art historians consider the High Renaissance to be largely dominated by three individuals: Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci.
Mannerism , which emerged in the latter years of the Italian High Renaissance, is notable for its intellectual sophistication and its artificial (as opposed to naturalistic) qualities, such as elongated proportions, stylized poses, and lack of clear perspective .
Some historians regard Mannerism as a degeneration of High Renaissance classicism, or even as an interlude between High Renaissance and Baroque —in which case the dates are usually from c. 1520 to 1600 and it is considered a positive style complete in and of itself.
Key Terms
High Renaissance: The period in art history denoting the apogee of the visual arts in the Italian Renaissance. The High Renaissance period is traditionally taken to have begun in the 1490s, with Leonardo’s fresco of The Last Supper in Milan and the death of Lorenzo de’ Medici in Florence, and to have ended in 1527, with the Sack of Rome by the troops of Charles V.
Mannerism: A style of art developed at the end of the High Renaissance, characterized by the deliberate distortion and exaggeration of perspective, especially the elongation of figures