Italian Art Essay

The Italian Renaissance was a time of great cultural changes in the art around the world. You can notice these changes throughout the art and the architectural structures developed during that time. In my writing assignment, I will not only go into detail but also analyze three vivid paintings all done by Lorenzo Lotto. The three painting I have chosen are “The Stoning of Saint Stephen”, “The Entombment”, and “Saint Dominic Reviving Napoleone Orsini”. I choose these paintings from the art…

context of Italian Renaissance portraiture. In this essay, I will argue that the Mona Lisa is a very significant artwork and that this famous painting was revolutionary and unconventional for the period.…

I chose to immerse myself into the Italian culture. Choosing this culture was not difficult because I am, according to AncestryDNA, 75% Italian and would love to learn more about where I come from. The only exposure that I have gotten in relation to the culture was when I traveled to Italy in June of 2017 and by living at home with my extended Italian family. After extensive research, I learned a hefty amount of information on Italian culture. For the course, I was required to download two…

Triptych, also called the Annunciation with Saints and Donors is a three part, wood panel that depicts the Annunciation of the Angel Gabriel to Mary that she is to be the mother of Christ as described in the Gospel of Luke. As a foldable triptych, the art has remained amazingly well preserved without any conservation efforts, however, additional scanning and research had exposed some interesting changes and edits made to the image that are otherwise invisible to the naked eye. These differences…

known as the Renaissance. It was a time which began after the Middle Ages and was accompanied by both the Reformation and Humanism. The Renaissance lead to a return to the classical arts of Roman and Greek Antiquity. The Catholic Church had remained a major patron of the arts during the Renaissance. Works of art were commissioned by the civil government, courts, and wealthy individuals as well as various religious organizations, including monasteries, churches and other religious figures.…

The Renaissance was a period which marked the rebirth of classical antiquity with the transition in the Italian world from Scholasticism to Humanism. After the Great Schism which lasted from 1378-1417, and the Bubonic plague in 1438, the European feudal system collapsed. Not only, but also, the reputation of the Church was put under considerable scrutiny, weakening the influence of the Papal states of Christendom. Furthermore, the omnipresence of death brought by the plague in 1438 caused high…

renaissance During the renaissance there were a lot of different artist coming up. The renaissance art is the painting, sculpture and decorative arts of that period of European history known as the renaissance, emerging as a distinct style in Italy in about 1400,The during renaissance such as Invention of the first mechanical clock, Invention of scales for weighing, First golf ball was invented Invention of the trigger for gun,…

Italy’s Culture Ciao! This is Italian for “Hello!” The culture of Italy is a of particular interest to me because all of my dad’s side of the family is Italian and has Italian ancestry. My father’s Grandparents were born and raised in Italy, and spoke all Italian. Italy has the most romantic people in the whole word, just before Paris. Some cultural practices that they do in Italy, is that their most popular sport is “football” or soccer. Although my family is a Italian family, we don’t always…

being a classically educated ‘literary man’, he translated Poussin’s expression ‘I am thinking’ into the more conventional oratorical concept of invention’ (invenzione in Italian). Now in the Italian Renaissance ‘invention’ approximately meant to what we now call ‘subject matter’. But more than that, it was also the term that Italian renaissance poets and scholars and then painters all gave to their initial planning process any new painting or sculpture or book. It followed that both artists…

Both the Italian Renaissance and Northern Renaissance art forms centered on realism and religion, but differed in that Italian art emphasized the human form and aristocracy, while Northern Art focused on fine details and color, and the everyday life of peasants. Northern art was predominantly Gothic, but over time began to adopt some of the Italian characteristics. To illustrate, the ‘Adoration of the Magi’ created by Albrecht Durer, shows the minute details used by Northern artists as…