The Connection with Science and Renaissance Art

Abstract

This article is about two artists who were both important in the history of Renaissance art, Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer. They developed scientific research in their artistic production, combining art and science to make the results of their work more rigorous and to provide much material for future research in history as well as in many other fields. Leonardo da Vinci was not only a great painter but also an accomplished painter in many other fields. He used the study of the human body and the analysis of space in his paintings, and it was found after later studies that the proportions and perspective of the human body used by Leonardo da Vinci were drawn in perfect conformity with the golden ratio. The work of Albrecht Dürer, a representative figure of the Northern Renaissance, is a perfect interpretation of naturalistic scientism because he observed nature and his study of the proportions of the human body, and his study of nature influenced later painters in their treatment of natural details in the paintings. An analysis of Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer reveals the relationship between art and science during the Renaissance, and it is also possible to observe that the scientific research that developed as a result of art had a great influence on the subsequent creation of paintings.