In the 15th century, the leading families of Florence - the most important center of Rena

Raphael, a master painter and architect, the youngest of the three artists whose styles epitomize the High Renaissance, produced works that rivaled the well-known masterpieces of Leonardo da Vinci, and Michaelangleo. His later works used a new style that tended toward the baroque. His architecture displayed the exaggerated scale and abnormal forms of Mannerism. What Leonardo achieved by sheer intellect and Michelangelo through passionate intuition, Raphael acquired by persistent study and assimilation. It is possible to trace through his works the process by which he transformed the fifteenth-century style of his earliest teachers into something new and of enduring influence. For later generations, Raphael's art came to represent an ideal of perfection, the very definition of easy grace and harmonious balance.

Of all the men who contributed to the revival of artistic and intellectual achievement of the Renaissance, none were more remarkable than Leonardo da Vinci. Recognized now as the "father" of the High Renaissance, he was a master of any discipline in which he practiced. Others may have equaled him as an artist, but nobody else of his time possessed in such a high degree the curiosity about the physical world which is the foundation of modern science, combined with mastery in the arts of painting, drawing, sculpture, and even architecture (Clayton, 9). While it is the paintings of Leonardo that have brought him fame over the years, the full range of his talent can best be seen in his drawings. His many drawings and notes, at least the ones that have survived, have become the basis for the modern scientific illustration, especially important in the field of anatomy. Leonardo's anatomical studies, while great works of art in themselves, were used not only as tools to aid in his artistic understanding of the human form, but also as a means of scientific exploration of human functions. Leonardo da Vinci was an artist who sought an understanding beyond superficial analysis. He sought to understand every aspect of the universe. Science was meant as a means of perfecting his art, but over the course of his lifetime, the scientist in Leonardo began to consume the artist. In fact, Leonardo considered art to be a science, once calling it "the Queen of all sciences", which provided not only a means of obtaining knowledge, but of sharing that knowledge with the rest of the world. As in every discipline in which he practiced, his anatomical studies represent a knowledge that was far in advance of his contemporaries. At a time when society was trying to wake up from the Dark Ages, Leonardo da Vinci was a man who awoke early.

Michelangelo Buonarroti, almost certainly another most famous artist produced by Western c

Some common words found in the essay are:
Mee Jr, Vinci Recognized, Renaissance Italy, Mannerism Leonardo, Niccolo Machiavelli, Greeks Romans, Greece Rome, Overall Machiavelli's, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Giovanni Boccacio, da vinci, leonardo da, leonardo da vinci, renaissance artists, sculpture architecture, field fine arts, fine arts, discipline practiced, anatomical studies, renaissance changed, painting sculpture, art literature architecture, painting sculpture architecture, mee jr,
Approximate Word count = 1847
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)