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Renaissance Style Was Introduced:
The great French historian, Jules Michelet, complained of the frivolity which saw in the Renaissance only a new style of Decoration or a new form of verse. On the contrary, he proclaimed in a famous phrase that the Renaissance was "the discovery of the world and of man." He thus became the first historian to assert that the Renaissance was more than a cultural revival, that it was, in fact, the historical period which saw the beginning of the modern world. He was followed by the great Swiss historian Jakob Burckhardt who, in his brilliant essay, Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien (The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy, 1860), interpreted the period from Dante to Michelangelo in Italy as the age which saw the birth of the modern spirit in a profound transformation of ideas and institutions.Classical ornaments, notably grotesques, were also used to decorate plate, but moresques and arabesques-ornaments derived from Islamic art—were also popular. The Renaissance style was introduced late into goldsmiths' work, probably around 1440. About 1500 it spread northward into Germany and Flanders, and the engraved designs produced in Nuremberg and in Antwerp soon exerted international influence.
Renaissance tapestries. The transitional period between the Gothic and the Renaissance showed tapestry patterns in which details of the two periods were mixed. Often Gothic architectural forms were combined with human figures dressed in Renaissance and classic costumes. The perspective of the pictures improved. The horizon line was lowered below the middle of the picture, and distance and atmospheric effects were introduced. Shadows and highlights were shown in greater contrasts and borders became much more important than in the Gothic period. More detailed modelling and rounding of draperies and clothing was attempted, and both Roman and Gothic letters were used.
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