Mapeh

• Symmetry, the concept of balance proportions, was a significant aspect of renaissance sculpture.
• Religion was still the major stem of many renaissance sculptures.
• The classical period (1750-1820) was enveloped in the enlightenment period which is also known as “the age of reason”.
• Classical art was highly influenced by the ancient arts and literature of Greece and Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman art.
• Classical art contrasts the grandeur, the sensuality and the extravagance of baroque art.
• Neoclassicism is characterized by the balance and clarity of form, restrained colors, heroism, and seriousness, unemotional and realistic concepts.
• Classical music was characterized by its form symmetry and balance.
• Galant style is where simpler melodies that were easier to sing characterize the music with a contrast of mood within the movement.
• Music in the classical period was usually homophonic and considered as elegant.
• The harpsichord was gradually replaced by the piano during the classical period.
• The music genre of the classical era, instrumental music, became more prevalent in this period as compared to the baroque and renaissance eras.
• The terraced dynamics was bridged by crescendo and decrescendo during the classical period.
• The three most important genres during the classical period are the sonata, the concerto, and the symphony.
• The sonata is a genre for solo instrumental music that is usually for the piano, it usually has two or more movements.
• The sonata allegro form is the first part of this multi-movement composition, it has a three-part structure that features repetition and contrast commonly used in instrumental music.
• The exposition is the first section of the sonata, the development is the second section, and the recapitulation is the last section, it is in aba form.
• Exposition in this movement, the two contrasting teams or melodies were presented.
• Development in this movement, the two teams were varied to create contrasting sections, the sections could change in texture, rhythm, and mood.
• Recapitulation in this movement, the theme was repeated with a few changes.
• The concerto is the genre for orchestra that features one soloist, it is usually in three movements or a fast-slow-fast movement.
• The symphony is an extended work for orchestra, it has three to four movements, symphonies usually lasted for 30 to 45 minutes.
• Linear perspective is the effect that is achieved through linear perspective can be likened by looking through a window and painting what you see on the window pain exactly how you see it.
• During the proto renaissance period, the classical Roman culture was celebrated by writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio, who had high regard for languages, values, and intellectual traditions that had stagnated for long after the Roman Empire fell in the sixth century.
• Antonio da Corregio and Donato Bramante were notable artists in the high renaissance period.
• Mannerism became widespread in the late 1500s, an artistic style that focused on artificiality instead of the idealized naturalism of higher renaissance art.
• Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael were significant figures in the renaissance period.
• Early renaissance art period 1401 to 1490s saw a resurgence of renaissance art in Florence, which became the site of renewed interest in philosophy, religion, and art, reminiscent of ancient Greece and Rome.
• Italy played a pivotal role in the emergence of the renaissance style of visual and decorative art in the late 14th century.
• Georgio Vasari, in his seminal work Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, wrote about the artists aiming for harmony, balance, restraint, and realism in their sculpture.
• High renaissance art period 1490 to 1527 saw a shift in the center of renaissance art from Florence to Rome, headed by Pope Leo X.
• The horizon line in art is the line representing the viewers eye level, the same as the line where the sky seemingly meets the edge of the land.
• The vanishing point in art refers to the point at which parallel lines appear to converge in the distance, often on the horizon line.
• Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael were significant figures in the high renaissance period.
• Beethoven's works are considered a bridge between the classical and romantic eras, including an opera, six symphonies, four solo concerti, five string quarters, six string sonatas, seven piano sonatas, five sets of piano variations, four overtures for trios, 26 deaths, and two and 72 songs.
• The early forms of renaissance art evident in the late 13th and early 14th century were called proto renaissance.
• Notable artists in the early renaissance include Lorenzo Ghiberti and Tommaso di ser giovanni masasio di simone.
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was one of the most well-known composers of the classical period, he was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27, 1756.
• Franz Joseph Haydn was an Austrian composer who was born on March 31, 1732, he was one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the classical period, known as the father of the symphony and string quartet, and one of the pioneers of the genres of classical music that later influenced the works of Mozart and Beethoven.
• Ludwig van Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770, in his early age, his father trained him to be a good musician, Beethoven became a student of Haydn, and despite being deaf at the age of 46, he produced most of his iconic works.