The town of  Murano, lies upon an island, a few miles off the coast of Venice. The art of the region was distinctly different from the art of Sienna, Venice, Rome and Florence. The Muranese painters were some of the most innovative painters working in Italy. The paintings of the school of Murano are distinguished as charming, luminous, and with little or no dramatic contrasts. The figures are well-shaped, elongated, with tapered limbs and fingers. The most famous Muranese painter is Giovanni of Murano. He was an exceptional painter of the High Renaissance.

Until the Middle Ages men regarded themselves as following the Good Shepherd, and art consequently did not recognize the individual in particular. In the structure and position of  the figures, as in their expression, a general and uniform type of beauty prevailed. The early Renaissance marks the victory of individualism and the uncompromising prominence of he individual.  According to Renaissance historian Walter Pater  "Here, artists and philosophers and those whom the action of the world has elevated and made keen, do not live in isolation, but breathe a common air, and catch light and heat from each other’s thoughts. There is a spirit of general elevation and enlightenment in which all alike communicate. The unity of this spirit gives unity to all the various products of the Renaissance; and it is to this intimate alliance with the mind, this participation in the best thoughts which that age produced, that the art of Italy in the fifteenth century owes much of its grave dignity and influence.."

Key Descriptive Words  and Phrases associated with the Renaissance Movement -  rebirth, rediscovery of the classical world,  publication of Della Pittura, a book about the laws of mathematical perspective for artists,  spiritually significant,  illuminated manuscript,  idealized biblical themes, scriptorium, illuminator, plague, Age of Discovery, curiosity about the natural world,  realistic use of colours and  light, Old Testament stories, pre-Constantinian period, ethereal and foggy backgrounds, Gospel parables, romanticized landscapes,  Christian symbolism.

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