Early Renaissance

Early Renaissance - Styles and Influences

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Early Renaissance
(15th c.)

This new illusion of liveness found its early expression in sculpture (Putto by Verrocchio, Desiderio) especially in the portraiture of individuals (Filarete). Unlike sculpture the exhibited works of decorative art show that the advance of the new style took place in the conservative environment of guild control over the work of goldsmiths, both in the north of Europe and in Italy, the birthplace of the Renaissance. In works of ecclesiastical purpose, the new Renaissance forms were long mixed with the older Gothic forms.