It shows you the present of the Mary and Jesus showing affection to each other and the unknown future of what is to come to her son. I think this piece is brilliant and I would love to see it in…
Some of them are talking, some of them have stood up, and some are raising their hands in horror. This painting with Anne and John the Baptist. He drew a large "cartoon". The cartoon showed the Virgin Mary sitting on the knee of her mother Mary holds the baby Jesus in her arms.…
St. Helena and the Emperor Constantine Presented to the Holy Trinity by the Virgin Mary was the piece of art work that stuck out to me the most which made me choose to write my analysis essay on this amazing well thought out art work. Some of my reasoning behind choosing this piece of art is the amazing story that it shares in just one picture. Just by looking at this piece of art you can tell there is so much emotion and knowledge behind making this painting. From observing this work, it made me want to know more about what exactly is trying to be captured through a picture instead of the use of words. St. Helena and the Emperor Constantine Presented to the Holy Trinity by the Virgin Mary was created by a famous Italian rococo…
She would use neighbors, friends, and family members pose for her while she drew or painted their portraits. She would draw them the way they presented themselves to be and did not tweak with their image. She drew them almost to the point of it being unflattering because she would not idealize them. Mary’s most popular reoccurring theme is mother and child. Some believe that this was because she did not have children of her own and was showing her desire to be a mother.…
Because of the title of this work we know that depicted are the Christ child carried by the Virgin Mary with a female saint embracing the child along with Saint John the Baptist as an infant to the right. Titian placed the figures in a pyramidal structure around the Christ Child so that one’s eye focuses on the Christ Child. In addition, although Saint John the Baptist is not physically in contact with the other three figures, his strong exchange glance at the child brings him together. Work seems balanced since the Virgin Mary, the female saint and Saint John the Baptist all look toward the Christ Child. In this painting, Tiziano Vecellio…
This depicts that she seems peaceful, a perfect housewife. Mary waits for her husband to arrive home at the same time everyday, she has a routine that one can only guess has been perfected over several years. She seems to be overly dependent on her husband, and waits on him hand and foot from the second he arrives every day. “She took his coat and hung it up. Then she made drinks,”(page 1.)…
Giotto, a younger member of the artist guild, was a student of Cimabue. Both Giotto and Cimabue painted Virgin and Child Enthroned altarpieces created from wood panels of tempera and gold. Viewing their renditions of the Virgin and Child Enthroned, Cimabue’s and Giotto’s distinct styles are apparent. By comparing and contrasting Cimabue’s and Giotto’s style of work, the viewer can see the shift from Byzantine to classical style of art.…
In “The Semiotics of Performance and Success in Madonna,” Jose I. Prieto-Arranz takes a close examination at the nature and result of Madonna’s controversial career by giving the reader some insight into her life as a musical diva, discussing the themes that make the foundation of her music ambiguous, and the effect of her iconicity on the world. Prieto-Arranz’s introductory paragraph aptly sums up the tone of the article by asserting, “Madonna is a household name for the parents and even grandparents of the actual consumers of her products, since Madonna, rather than a singer, is a global multimedia phenomenon” (173). Throughout the article, the themes of sex and religion are discussed within the confines of Madonna’s career and examples…
The variety of patterns in this composition, including several floral designs and the bold stripes of the woman’s dress is united by a restrained palette of grays and mauves. The soft coloration allows the viewer to concentrate on the subject of the scene- the close relationship between mother and child. Their intimacy is demonstrated by their closely positioned faces and by the circle of touch that extends from the woman’s hand on the child’s foot to the child’s hand to the woman’s knee. In this work, Cassatt evoked the traditional artistic subject matter of the Madonna and Child, making her imagery rather secular then…
The purpose is to show importance of Mary and Jesus. Both paintings lack backgrounds to give a standpoint of Mary and Jesus being the only two main figures in the painting. In the Medieval Time painting, the child is sitting in his mother’s arm and the mother is sitting on her chair. The child looks up at his mother and she looks out at you. The Renaissance art have more figures but you can still get a sense of your two main figures.…
The 114cm times 113cm painting The Old Testament Trinity (Three Angels Visiting Abraham) is a tempera painting by Andrey Rublyov from 1410-1425. The painting mainly focuses on balance and color. In the painting the artist puts the three angles even distance apart making the angle in the red robe the main focus and the angel in blue (on the left) and the angel in a peach robe (on the right) faced inward toward the angel in red. Also the Artist gives both the angel in blue and peach a chair in order to keep the balance. When you look at the background there is a tree behind the blue angel and a building behind the peach angle, by doing so it prevents the painting from being heavily weighted on the right side.…
Also, the two figures can be indicated to be important how everyone’s heads are focused on them. Yet, the child in the middle represents the Virgin Mary at 3 years old with a bright yellow like mist around her. This yellow light represents either divinity or the essence in purity from the 3 year old child. Coloring of the foreground is in a yellow hue and the backgrounds are faded to mostly blue. The axis of the art stays in horizontal display except for the building which can be placed in a horizontal property.…
Virgin and Child Enthroned, was painted in the Thirteenth century, at time that everything was explained through the church, and peoples spirituality, were incredibly important. So in Thirteenth Century paintings, the holy figures were meant to make you feel small, they even painted Christ as a small man, to respect his role. This way of thinking was extinguished when the plague hit, and afterwards, people started to focus on things other than the church, the human experience. Thus there was a revival of ancient philosophy, and art of the Greeks and Romans. Humanism, a philosophy surrounding the human experience, and the beauty of earth, influenced Renaissance art.…
The Renaissance was a period of great advancement not only culturally but also in reference to technology and science. Individual parts of Europe had their own changes, however, the Italian Renaissance and Northern Renaissance are the two most recorded within Europe. Although they share this in common, they are in fact extremely different, these differences can be observed through artwork in each Renaissance. The Italian Renaissance was concerned with art that they produced to depict beauty and elegance, above all. The Italian Renaissance was also aware that it was in fact just that, a Renaissance.…
Although Giotto’s and Cimabue's ‘Virgin and Child Enthroned” share the same biblical subject of the Virgin Mary and the Christ child, they differ in a number of significant ways that reflect their respective embodiments of the Byzantine style in the early 13th century. Upon first glance the paintings are strikingly alike. They share a long pentagon general shape, position of the baby Christ upon the lap of the Virgin Mary and the Virgin Mary upon her throne, and a gold background that make the setting appear to be in more divine location rather than on earth, but as we look towards the focal point we can pinpoint the most apparent difference - the portrayal of the Virgin Mary. Cimabue closely follows the traditional Byzantine iconography…