Renaissance Art Response

The word renaissance means a complete change in modes of art, literature, music, and architecture, as well as an altered sense of morality and ethicality during a given period of time. This change stems from an expansion of thought and with that a new sense of what matters in the world. Every type of art developed and changed throughout the Renaissance period, including literature, music, and visual arts, namely paintings and sculpture. One of the finest artists who came out of the European Renaissance was Rembrandt van Rijn. Rembrandt is unique in all of Renaissance artistry in that he was primarily interested in painting people that he knew rather than historic figures or events although he did also paint Biblical scenes which he felt particularly connected to.

The piece I focused on is a self-portrait of the artist Rembrandt van Rijn, more commonly known as simply Rembrandt,...
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