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.…
The artwork I chose is, The Scream by Edvard Munch, which was created in 1893. This artwork has been described, as a “Mona Lisa for our time.” The composition of The Scream is an oil painting on cardboard. Furthermore, the style of this painting is Expressionism. To emphasize, Edvard Munch used lines, and colors to depict human emotions.…
Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi, or better known as Donatello, was born in Florence, Italy around 1386 who studied with well-known sculptors who helped him to learn the Gothic Style. Even before he was 20, he became known for his work and went on as the greatest Florentine sculptor before Michelangelo and the most influential individual artist of the 15th century in Italy. Donatello used creative techniques combined with his amazing skills to create figures that incorporated not only a sense of realism, which showed the person’s emotional state using facial and body expressions, but also perspective - allowing a sculptor to create figures that occupied measurable space. His sculpture depicts the body of Jesus Christ being crucified at Calvary on the wooden cross, using perspective to show the size of Christ’s body in proportion to his cross. Donatello’s genius is shown in how life-like he created Jesus’s face and body; the beard, expression of death, and the way the body was hanging off the cross shows how…
Tiziano Vecellio, an Italian artist more commonly known as Titian, was born in 1488 and lived until 1576. The Madonna and Child with a Female Saint and the Infant Saint John the Baptist is a work created by Titian in the 1530s. This panel is done in oil medium and measures three feet and five and one half inches by four feet and ten and three eights inches, however because it is framed it appears larger measuring four feet and six and half inches by five feet and eleven and one eighth inches. Painted in the 16th century, The Madonna and Child with a Female Saint and the Infant Saint John the Baptist but since 1986 finds its home at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. The canvas is a horizontal painting of holy figures in a pastoral landscape.…
Today at the Vatican, visitors head straight for the Michelangelo, but it wasn't always that way in the past. For centuries, the favorite masterpieces were the classical statues, but above all, the Raphael Loggia. For generations of artists, the Loggia was the supreme model of inspiration. It was an art school for all of Europe, and enjoyed immense success. In Saint Petersburg, at the end of the eighteenth century, Catherine II of Russia had full-sized reproductions of them made and placed in the immense Hermitage museum: it is probably the most famous copy of this masterpiece.…
Duccio and Giotto paint, arguably, their most influential pieces during the first decade of the twelfth century . Giotto is commissioned by Enrico Scrovegni in Padua to fresco the Arena Chapel to reconcile himself with God over the sins of his father’s usury. In contrast, Duccio is commissioned by the Church fathers of Sienna to paint a panel altarpiece for the Duomo . Giotto utilizes his private patronage to develop new principles of dramatic narrative while Duccio sticks to the Bible stories and develops a variation of Gothic style. Despite differences in technique, location and function of the work, and patronage, these two artists were united in creating a new form of visual language helping to launch the period art historians now call…
The Renaissance is among the most prominent and influential historical time periods in all of art history. Derived the from the French term for “rebirth,” the Renaissance was a renewed interest in the ideas, culture, forms and perspectives of the ancient civilizations of Greek and Rome. As the Renaissance flourished in different regions of Europe, the social, political, and cultural factors of the regions culminated in discrete styles. Although there were similar overarching principles, there were characteristics of the art of the Northern Renaissance and the Southern Renaissance that were unique to each area.…
In early Renaissance art, artists had a tendency to use the same biblical stories or themes in their artwork. One in particular is the Virgin and Child Enthroned, it was painted by two different artists, thirty years apart from each other. In the year 1280 the first Virgin and Child Enthroned was painted by Cenni Di Pepi, also known as “Cimabue.” (M. Stokstad, 536) The second Virgin and Child Enthroned was painted by Giotto Di Bondone in 1305-1310.…
In 2006, Bologna, the capital of Emilia-Romagna, was given the title a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) “city of music”. Violins, ocarinas, lutes and guitars are the instruments that make up the majority of the music in the Emilian culture. Popular/ well known music of Emilia Romagna include Romagna Mia, the region’s anthem, E picchia picchia la porticella, Gli Scariolanti, La Ghirlandeina and Testamento dell'avvelenato and the works of Giuseppe Verdi, a famous composer born in Busseto (Emilia-Romagna). Aside from the music, the calls of many animals can be heard, especially if you are near the countryside where cows, goats, sheep and pigs reside. Dogs and cats are common as well.…
The size of the altarpiece is also massive as it is almost 23 feet tall and the figures are nearly lifelike. The apostles at the bottom of the piece are over 6 feet tall when observed in the Venetian church The Assumption of the Virgin is located in and Mary is larger than that to show her importance and power. At the top of the work where God is he is not as tall as Mary or the Apostles but extends almost entirely across the 11 feet wide canvas to showcase that God and heaven encompass all and add to the idea that God is…
Filippon Brunelleschi was commissioned by the Medici in 1418 to redesign this 11th-century Romanesque church and in the design Brunelleschi added Pietra Serena stone, domical vaults over side aisles and other architectural details. Brunelleschi’s design for San Lorenzo was not completed until after his death. Most of my focus will be on the contract between the Medici and Brunelleschi, since it was a deal just like the deals were done at the timee for other works of art. The Medici are know for their dealing within the art world of the Renssiance, from their commissions and their own privte collcetion. They were diffently known as patron of the arts and for archtericure.…
The Altarpiece of St. Clare: A Visual Biography The Altarpiece of St. Clare was created by an anonymous artist around 1280. The media used in this piece are tempera paint and wood. This was a common choice among artist during the middle ages.…
Since the Renaissance period, many things have changed, from the way we act and the way we dress, but one thing that has not changed is our appreciation for art. Art, then and now, captures the worries and problems that are going on in the World around us. Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgement” (1536-1541), has many scenes within the painting that show the people’s facial expressions, mostly of worry, for whether or not they will be sent to Heaven or Hell. Michelangelo (1475-1564) just may as well be one of the greatest Italian artists of the Renaissance period, creating some of the most creative and inspiring artwork during his lifetime. Looking at all of his paintings and sculptures, one can definitely tell that his artwork is very detailed…
The artist I chose to do my paper on is Giovanni Paolo Panini and the name of the work is Interior of St. Peter’s, Rome by Gionanni Paolo Panini. This work is about the interior of the church called St. Peter’s Basilica and it was created in 1731 in Rome, Italy, Europe. This piece of work is a view painting of the interior of St’ Peter’s Basilica and since it is a church it is a religious and symbolic example of the piousness of the people of these times. Giovanni Paolo Pannini was born in 1691 in Piacenza, Italy, eventually Pannini moved to Rome, Italy where he lived the rest of his life until his death in 1765. In Pannini’s younger years he was aiming to have a career in the church and in this process he had learned about art and architecture and had a good understanding of it by the time he had gotten to Rome in 1711 where he continued his artistic training under Benedetto Luti.…
The painting was a commission for Guidobaldo II, the Duke of Urbino, an important patron of the arts at the time and of Titian in particular. No evidence given suggests that the painting was meant for anything more than private enjoyment; however, it is possible that the piece was meant to commemorate the Duke’s marriage to Giulia Varano, the Duchess of Camerino, as well as to display the idealized beauty of women during the period and serve as an…