Fresco

A very popular theme among great artists and storytellers is a story from the Apocryphal book of Judith. In this story, a beautiful and loyal widow saves the Israelite town of Bethulia from Nebuchadnezzar 's army, who are under the command of Holofernes. While modeling her finest clothes, she pretends to destroy the invading Assyrian army. She is then taken to Holofernes, where she flatters and captivates him by her beauty and oath to help him overcome the Israeli resistance. After this meeting,…

that integrated other cultures and religions despite the fact that there was an official religion of Rome. The two most predominate religions were The cult of Isis and the and the cult of Bacchus/Dionysus. though evidence from the temple of Isis , frescos from the villa of mysteries…

historic significance and meaning in our society. One of the most interesting painting that intrigues me from the SmARThistory links from Khan Academy is The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci made from 1495-1498. The painting was made using oil paint, fresco, and tempura in Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. The artwork illustrates Jesus and his twelve apostles sitting at a table, where he tell reveals that one of them will betray him and his apostles’ reactions. I selected this painting because I…

traditional catholic scenes. (Michelangelo). Incredible he did not consider himself a painter and preferred the art of sculpting. Even with this he painted 400 life size biblical figures on the Sistine chapel using the difficult painting style of fresco. Michelangelo painted the same way he sculpted and every figure had defined human aspects and was proportional. Recently, it has been discovered that the red cloak floating behind God and his fellow figures is the shape of an anatomically correct…

Rome was a polytheistic culture. This meant they believed in many gods and goddesses that all represented their own aspect of life or nature. The Romans were so devoted to them that they built massive buildings of worship to them known as the Pantheon. Not only did the Romans took what the gods said as law, but even incorporated them in their everyday lives and their ceremonies as well. This can be seen on the three wall paintings located in the Roman exhibit in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.…

above all else and known for his pieces physical realism (Michelangelo And The Mastery Of Drawing). “This drawing is the result of intense observation and masterful economy of notation, from which the artist would pull information for painting the fresco” (linesandcolors.com). Michelangelo was an individual artist who worked on projects in various disciplines. “One of the commonalities that relate each of his works in the different fields together is that they all start with a drawing”…

the buildings. Unique pieces of arts were often mosaic some were frescos. The Romans appraised their arts. In the architectural built mosaics or amphitheaters and columns were built to hold their history. Some mosaics that Romans adorned were entitled “Cave Canem.” With the major structures, they built rooms that filled the walls and floor with beautiful mosaics such as mosaics from Fannius Synistor “Room M”. Romans also had fresco paintings which were accustomed in the Villa of mystery of…

Before I start, I am going to tell you a little bit about the artist I have chosen to present on. Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian artist as well as a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, architect, botanist, musician, and writer. Leonardo Da Vinci is considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and, to some people, the most variously talented person to have lived. His most famous paintings, Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, are still admired today on…

What is beauty? In a classical sense beauty is something of perfection primarily with a strong connection towards math hence that everything beautiful was perfectly proportional and followed the golden ration of size and precision. The great Philosopher Plato believed that we find things beautiful when we unconsciously sense in them qualities we want such as gentleness, harmony, balance, peace, strength, and perfection. Michelangelo as well as Plato shared the same belief of what beauty was.…

time making and thinking about. It was backed by research that I really liked to learn about. Making this painting I spent a lot of time thinking before I laid paint down. The research I looked into was the surrealist painters and looking into the fresco paintings and codex writing by the Mexica. When looking into surrealism I was drawn to Magritte’s The Flash and The blank signature. Images of Mictlantecuhtli and Quetzalcoatl influenced my work as well. They are the gods of death and life in…