/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2692003
But that's not Renaissance. The beauty of Renaissance painting in large part comes from its placing of importance in decorum, that the principles of art should suffice. It was an antique vision of perfection where there is no feeling of excess.

>>2691616
There's some eroticism in Renaissance although it's rarely the fleshy eroticism of someone like Rubens. It's a feat that although there are some paintings which display eroticism, the primary effect is not lust, but beauty. I suppose the otherworldly idealism has to do with it, where they are not simply naked figures but rather nudes, as well as the modest countenance.

Pure formality done right.

Raphael has a pure style that comes with making his art seem effortless, which is probably the hardest to do in art.