The painter Parmigianino, in his art piece, Madonna with the long neck, captures a fused narrative that comes from another art piece, “Vision of Saint Jerome”. The piece portrays the virgin Mary holding a young baby Christ. The piece is an oil painting that measures 7 by 4 feet, and was created between the years of 1534 through 1540. Unfortunately the piece was never finished because the artist became deceased.…
For my work of art I choose “Lamentation” by Italian painter Giotto di Bondone. This is Gothic Art from the 1140-1400 CE this is a fresco painting located at the Arena Chapel in Veneto, Italy. The purpose, meaning, and function of this work of art are by representing the mourning of the dead body of Christ. The painting dimensions are 7’ 7" x 7' 9" in fresco located in the Arena Chapel in Padua. Christ is surrounded by figures watching his dead body.…
Helena Maria Viramontes ' novel Under the Feet of Jesus present the true realities that a young thirteen-year-old girl, Estrella, and her family encounter as migrant laborers. Working as migrant laborers, Estrella and her family face conflicts with the legal system, the perpetual state of being short on money, and the depiction of their labor. Viramontes’s novel effortlessly demonstrates how the life of migrant workers are both demanding and brutal through exemplifying Estrella and her family 's life as migrant workers. One of the biggest hardships that Estrella and her family encounter relate to the fact that their work depends on factors that they cannot control.…
During the Renaissance period of the 14th to 17th century, art and architecture between Northern Europe and Italy were both similar and different in many ways. From the detailed work of everyday life of the North to the Neoplatonic allegories of Italian work, the Renaissance was a time of transition and strength. The most dominant similarity between Northern European and Italian Renaissance artwork lies behind the meaning of humanism. During the Renaissance, there was “rebirth of culture”; a shift towards people acknowledging human achievement. In religious pieces of art, Jesus was seen as less Godly and more human-like with emotion.…
All the figures pictured occupy space and have weight. As the piece moves backward toward where Christ is nailed to the cross, there is a definite recession of space. Van Eyck uses this receding background to denote depth, and it is only further enhanced by the intricately detailed, by tiny buildings in the back, and the atmospheric perspective employed on the even further receding landscape. The distraught bodies of the Mary’s engage the viewer’s interest in the foreground. As one looks at The Crucifixion’s contrasting piece, The Last Judgment, this occupation of natural space is seemingly lost.…
The Crucified Christ (1503-04) is a classical example of Italian Renaissance art. The piece illustrates, extremely effectively the Italian desire to make everything in which they paint beautiful, not matter how horrific the subject may be. Christ in this depiction, although, dead does not appear to have progressed into rigor mortis of any degree, Christ also appears to look peace in death in the Raphael painting, unlike in the Grunewald where distress is on Christ’s face is blatant. The way in which Christ is bleeding in Raphael’s piece is depicted with a degree of beauty, the bleeding is not messy, any blood coming from Christ, is delicately dripping into chalices held by angels on either side of Christ. This is a complete contrast with that of Grunewald’s depiction of the crucifixion, where blood is freely flowing down both his arms and legs.…
Although both paintings portray the same concept, Cimabue’s Virgin and Child Enthroned, and Raphael’s The Madonna of the Meadows are vastly different. This is because of the different styles, and the different ways of thinking of the two time periods. Obviously these two paintings are portraying the same Christian religious subjects, Mary and the Christ Child. One very noticeable difference is the setting of the two paintings.…
The Ascension by John Singleton Copley is an oil in canvas painting that depicts the ascension of Jesus to heaven. Copley derived his idea whilst in Rome as he studied Raphael’s Transfiguration of Christ. Copley’s work was at the heart of American Neoclassicism which was born out of the birth of the American republic. The Ascension differed greatly from Copley’s usual work of portraits, however maintains similar characteristics one would expect from work of this time. American Neoclassism has traits that stem from the ancient Romans.…
This focus allows exactitude in Giotto’s realism. The crowds of this fresco are much smaller than the crowds seen in Duccio’s Crucifixion on the Maestá. Mary faints in a realistic way into the hands of St. John and a holy woman . Dividing the fate of Christ’s cloak again suggests the sin of obsession over worldly goods and wealth, relating to the patronage and function of this chapel. Giotto’s realistic technique is seen in the folds of the cloak, heavy as it hangs down.…
Both paintings have the same subject, virgin Mary with Jesus sitting on the throne. However, they both had a vast amount of differences in the style. Which is shown in the differences of how they painted human figures and the use of space in the painting. The high alter piece of Virgin and Child Enthroned by Cimabue was painted for the church of Santa Trinita in Florence (M. Stokstad, 536).…
Many artworks during the Renaissance were influenced by the preceding era, the Middle Ages. During the Middle Ages, depictions of biblical tales were quite common and this trend continued into the Renaissance. The Renaissance painting, The Crucifixion, portrays the biblical story of the crucifixion of Jesus as well as the damnation and salvation. This painting was done by Dreux Budé Master, possibly André d 'Ypres, before 1450. In The Crucifixion, Dreux Budé Master…
The Dead Christ with Symbols of the Passion can be compared to Rosso Fiorentino's work, The Dead Christ with Angels. Painted in the 1520s, the piece features heavy similarities to Fontana's work in style, theme and content. Fiorentino's piece is also highly reflective of the 16th century style-mannerism similar to Fontana’s piece. Fiorentino’s piece is characterized by the use of crowded figures in an ambiguous space, strong hues and colors, elongated and twisting figures and so on. Thematically, the piece also features Jesus among the angels thereby suggesting His death has already taken place as is also suggested by its title.…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the world's largest encyclopedic art museums, located on the eastern side of the central park, in Manhattan. With more than 2 million works of art collection from around the globe, it also has collection from per-historic timeline. Each works of arts in here, organized by their own access codes, and placed into a specific gallery from a specific time period within their respective fields. The artwork that I chose to talk about today is a magnificent altarpiece, named “The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment” by artist Jan van Eyck. Created in the early Renaissance period, both The Crucifixion and The Last Judgment were done in two separate panels.…
The two artists present the paintings in a classical manner that enables the audiences to relate to them by evoking their religious feelings. The paintings are symbolic of the Biblical transformations that took place at the…
In each painting, both artists utilized various format and spacial techniques in order to portray different significant features within the space of the work. The artist of the Descent of Christ into Limbo painting used an overlapping technique in various areas of the painting, like in the central subject in the foreground where the viewer’s eye is initially drawn, in order to create more space and provide a third dimension within the work. Because of this overlapping technique, as the viewer, we can assume that Jesus is nearer to us than the character’s arm he is grabbing in the cave in comparison to the landscape in the middle ground which is overlapped in front of the distant background. The artist also portrays atmospheric perspective in his work, which is evident through his attention to bluish-gray hues and less clarity in the distant landscape, as…