Introduction

One of the most significant movements of ideas, art, and development of science in the history of humankind has occurred during the Renaissance and in the following periods as Baroque and Rococo. Renascence is not only a "Rebirth" of the classical style or ideas but a new way of looking back to the past to be able to see the future and its developments. This essay is meant to be an expression of what I captured throughout the readings and content presented in this course with some of the major ideas that agree with my points of view. The idea of scientific knowledge is strongly connected today to the scientific method of acquiring knowledge and validating ideas, once that can be traced back in time to the mindset of Francis Bacon in the center of the French Revolution, and others movements that happened in the art as well. We certainly cannot talk only about the key …show more content…
The first masterpiece produced during the Renascence is the Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, the medium chosen by the artist is oil on poplar panel, this masterpiece intended to portray a woman in an enigmatic pose and expression. We can identify a contrast between the woman represents to the perspective of a landscape background, a common feature of the early Renascence art. (Wikipedia, n.d).

A little step ahead in time, we meet another masterpiece of art, known as Crucifixion of Saint Peter, painted by Caravaggio in 1601; this painting marks one of the greatest work of art of the period known as Baroque, which makes a transition between the serenity to paintings with emotional intensity and drama. All the pictures in this time use a contrast between light and dark to produce points of interest to the