Caravaggio

She has worked in Rome, Venice, London, Naples, and Florence. The style that Artemisia Gentileschi used was Baroque. Since she was mirroring Caravaggio, this played a huge part in her paintings. Baroque highlights the dramatics, tension, movement, emotional, aesthetic, and overall, Baroque is unbelievably detailed. She also used oil paint as her medium. Because of this, she was able to become known…

The Renaissance Man Leonardo da Vinci is one of the most notorious artists from the High Renaissance period. He was a gifted man with many talents. Although he is well known for his artistic abilities, he was also known to be a great inventor, scientist, and engineer. Leonardo produced amazing artwork with a unique style during his time. His artwork is well recognized and popular by modern artist and historians all around the world. Paintings such as the Mona Lisa is considered to be priceless,…

To give you a sense of its peculiar plot, Sudden Death begins with a tennis match between Italian artist Caravaggio and Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo, which is attended by the likes of Mary Magdalene and Galileo. As if that wasn’t outlandish enough, the game ball is made from beheaded Anne Boleyn’s hair. Sudden Death is a hilarious, sharp and speculative…

The Elevation of the Cross was painted by Peter Paul Rubens during the Baroque time period in 1610-1611. The painting itself is fifteen feet in height and twenty-one feet in width (Pritchard). Rubens created the painting using oil paint, specifically oil paint on wood (Pritchard). Prior to the destruction of the church, the Elevation of the Cross was originally located at the Church of St. Walburga in Antwerp (Pritchard). Today, the painting is located at the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp…

in painting, and wanted him to become a lawyer, but later decided to support him and his artwork. He continued to pursue his interest in art and went to art school. He traveled throughout Europe studying the works of famous painters including Caravaggio, Goya, Rubens, and Diego Velazquez. He was drawn to realism and impressionistic painting style. Manet felt that artists at that time neglected reflecting everyday life in their paintings. He became famous for painting “everyday people…

La Hyre’s “paintings reflects the influence of Vouet, Poussin, and Claude.” (2) due to his famous classicism style and sticking to paintings from historic events, but unlike Poussin he painting fantasy and mythological scenes like Rubens. Like Caravaggio, La Hyre did not “received any formal education either in a school or in a university” (3) and became talented via his father who taught La Hyre the style he preferred. La Hyre is not a first generation painter, but “he was the son of the…

Women in History: Artemisia Gentileschi’s Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting Surrounded by portraits of and by male artists, Artemisia Gentileschi’s (1593-1652) oil on canvas Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (La Pittura) 1638-39 stands out in the midst of Vancouver Art Gallery’s “The Royal Collections: Portrait of the Artist” exhibition. As one of the only woman artist portraits, it pronounces itself in entirety to symbolise the prominence she has given females in history as she…

directly intertwined with this statue in that both entities in this artform are now spiritually whole and are content with staying as one for the rest of eternity. These same ideas can also apply to the story of Narcissus in the painting Narcissus by Caravaggio (PowerPoint 9). Narcissus, in Greek mythology, was the handsome son of the river god Cephissus and the nymph Liriope. As his myth goes, he found himself on the bad side of the revenge goddess, Nemesis. To get her vengeance against him,…

One of the examples is the Copernican revolution in the 16th century attributed to Copernicus and Galilei, and Newton that changed our viewpoint on Cosmology from geocentrism into heliocentrism. In art history, Caravaggio in the 17th century, a famous artist from Milano, Italy; he tried to connect Roman Catholic and Orthodox Catholic tradition by portraying Popes and Patriarchs together. Another example in recent might be Quantum physics which enables us to conduct…

renaissance ages, the artist spent so much time putting in details of his cheat and hair. I can only imagine how long it took to chip away all of these details. I really liked the details used in this statue and how it makes him look so alive. Caravaggio created a life-sized scultpure of Apollo and Daphne. I find this too be so beautiful. The way that Daphne is holding out her hands with such grace and having Apollo admiring her is incredible. This is a baroque sculpture and was made from a…