High Renaissance Painting In Florence And Environs,...

High Renaissance Painting in Florence and environs, 1490-1550 Learning about the art history in general during the Renaissance period makes anyone’s interpretation towards art change to the better. You become aware, of the color harmonization’s, and reason behind each detail drawn in a portrait or made in a sculpture. Symmetry, geometry and color coordination were revolutionized in portraits and paintings by famous artist like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael which is momentous. These three individuals played an enormous role during the Renaissance with their artistic work. The west building, known as the edifice had a roman traditional classical style, but built with modern technology, thus to catch the visitors attention†¦show more content†¦Most of the portraits were rectangular or square shaped. As a visitor, you would assume that the paintings and each of the portrait frames are together taken to be displayed, but that was not the case. The frames are from the gallery itself, which surprised many people on why and how this occurred. It would have been more remarkable if the frames were from Florence as well. The frames were not meant to overpower the portraits, but to enhance them. It was strange how all the frames of the portraits were gold. Is because the Renaissance was considered as a golden age, so the frame could enhance each portrait as so? Gallery room 20 was based on Raphael’s painting, and that is why there was one small writing on the wall that had a small description of â€Å"Raphael and the High Renaissance.† Room arrangements at the gallery was very confusing. The fact that each room has one or two doorways’ that leads you to another room in a circular motion was very misleading. If the setup was more like rooms next to each other, it could have been more organized for the visitor. That is probably one recommendation for a change. Maybe if the arrangement was not designed for the rooms to be placed in circular gesture, it would have been more comfortable for the visitor to focus on what he/she are viewing, rather than focusing on how which way gets me out. The numbers of the rooms were not chronologically ordered, so that was deceptive as well for the visitors. The fact