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Domenico Di Michelino
1417 – 1491
One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time
High Renaissance Artist Associated with the Florintine School of Painting
Stylistically influenced by the following painters -Fra Angelico
Education - apprenticed to a carver named Michelino and later worked and studied under Fra Angelico
Cause of Death - old age
About the Artist
The Late Renaissance artist Domenico Di Michelino did not paint many works. But he was among the leading Florentine painter of his time. He worked in Florence, the most culturally important city in Italy. Di Michelino is known for his dramatic and astonishing religious paintings. Although his greatest masterpiece 'Dante Alighieri Illuminated the Town of Florence' was based on Dante's writings. His reputation was made by creating works of great power and emotion that capture a dreamlike, ethereal fantasy world of his own making.
About The Renaissance
Period Artists of the
Renaissance were elevated in social standing and their art was
no longer looked upon as simple handicrafts, but as divinely inspired
creations. The spirit of an era awoke, revitalized with knowledge and
creativity. Although art still served a specific functions, which were
primarily religious, painters added more of their individual spirit and
personal vision to their creations. John
Ruskin, famous art historian stated, "The
art of any country is the exponent of its social and political virtues
. The art, or general productive and formative energy, of any country,
is an exact exponent of its ethical life. you can have noble art only
from noble persons, associated under laws fitted to their time and
circumstance." The major painters of the Renaissance
were not only artists but men of great genius who gave the world their
great intellectual gifts. Florentine and Venetian painting were both
formed by extraordinary personalities. These independent creative
geniuses tackled mathematical, artistic and philosophical problems of
the highest interest, and presented solutions that have never lost
their value. The sense of humanism pervading renaissance painting is
still palpable. The painters touched on a multitude of issues
regarding the human condition - death, love, reason, religion,
universal morality, social problems.
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 the 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, City-state, Humanism, Humanist, Francesco Petrarch, Reform, The Prince, Theocracy, The Inquisition, Human Reasoning, publication of Della Pittura, a book about the laws of mathematical perspective for artists, sfumato, chiaroscuro, linear perspective, Heliocentric Theory, vanishing point, Savonarola, spiritually significant, illuminated manuscript, idealized biblical themes, scriptorium, emotion, illuminator, Age of Discovery, axonometric drawing, curiosity about the natural world, mythology, realistic use of colours and light, Bonfire of the Vanities, Old Testament stories, ethereal and foggy backgrounds, Gospel parables, The Blackdeath, romanticized landscapes, Christian symbolism. Paradise
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