Renaissance sculpture

Renaissance sculpture is understood as a process of recovery of the sculpture of classical antiquity. Sculptors found in the artistic remains and in the discoveries of sites of that bygone era, the perfect inspiration for their works. They were also inspired by nature. The Flemish artists in northern Europe, in addition to overcoming the figurative style of the Gothic, promoted a Renaissance distinct from the Italian one. The rebirth of antiquity with the abandonment of the medieval, which for Giorgio Vasari "had been a world of Goths", and the recognition of the classics with all their variants and nuances was a phenomenon that developed almost exclusively in Italian Renaissance sculpture. Renaissance art succeeded in interpreting Nature and, with freedom and knowledge, translating it into a multitude of masterpieces.¶

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Renaissance sculpture is art of sculpture in the Renaissance, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition.¹¶

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