Fresco

is one of the most beautiful and relevant frescoes found in the palace of Knossos: the Prince of Lilies. Evans had to do something to preserve the fragments of the fresco, and he decided to apply a process called reconstitution. He employed a number of European artists, specialised in archaeological drawing, to reconstruct the fresco. The artefict represents a ruling figure crowned with a headpiece of lilies and feathers. Sir Arthur Evans interpreted it as being a portrayal of a king (possibly…

Starting around the 1500s, the High Renaissance was a blossoming time for art in Italy. High Renaissance artists were, more often than not, highly skilled in many different fields (italian-renaissance-art). Leonardo da Vinci was a guru when it came to sciences and Michelangelo was an immaculately gifted poet, painter and sculptor. The third member of the trio who is considered to have a great contribution to the magnificent examples of High Renaissance art is none other than the talented artist…

The fresco is Dante and His Poem painted by Domenico di Michelino. This fresco was created in 1465 and is located in Florence in the Cathedral. This painting is based on the poem Dante's Divine Comedy. In the poem Dante's Divine Comedy, Dante travels through all three planes of the afterlife. He goes to hell, heaven and purgatory. This fresco illustrates the story behind the poem. This canvas is divided into thirds. Each third allows us to see the artists interpretation of heaven, hell, and…

One of the least common art forms in the contemporary art world is the mosaic. Compared to the more common art forms such as painting or ceramics, mosaics have decreased in use from their peak in the ancient world. However, this does not diminish the importance and beauty of mosaics, but rather allows modern societies to admire an art form that it is unfamiliar and exotic, with many intricacies that are not at first obvious. Commissioned mainly by the rich, mosaics grew and spread across the…

looks likes da Vinci use the tempera technique because the painting has a certain glow or transparency to it. The painting looks like it was painted on a stone. Most artist back then use the tempera method on stone. The fresco method is not used in this painting. It is not a fresco because you cannot change or modify when an artist paints it. Oil is used in the painting to enhance the color or the brightness. Leonardo does not use any type of acrylic in this painting. Watercolors are not in…

Francis. To increase the emotive character, Correggio would often resort to the effects of the contrast of night illumination observed in the paintings of the Holy Night, or Adoration of the Shepherds (Riegl et al, The Origins of Baroque, 128). The fresco in Parma's cathedral appears the culmination of Correggio's art, depicting his logically finished searches that initially took place in the paintings of San Giovanni. Here the painter established the eternal and shining space uniting the barrel…

large exterior balconies overlooking the Italian countryside with the rear of the building facing back to Pompeii. There is a strong element of axial symmetry with the peristyle being at the center of both axes. Best known for it’s well maintained frescos in one of the smaller rooms,…

throughout Greece. Weapons and animal representations like bulls and griffins, are all characteristic of Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. But the settings in which they are presented offer deeper implications into their values and identity. Excavated frescos, pottery, and seals display these settings. Minoan iconography emphasizes communal ritual functions, shown through scenes of ritual practice and divinities in their art and material culture. However, Mycenaean design expresses boldness…

Raphael's famous painting The School of Athens is the most praised bits of artwork from the age of the Renaissance. The fresco was painted in the High Renaissance of Humanism and is the perfect encapsulation of the established classical spirit. Raphael's "School of Athens" is considered by numerous modern art historians to be irrefutably the masterpiece of the Renaissance. The school of Athens symbolizes the hypothesis that set the support for the modern thinking. In the three stories,…

Giotto workshop) of the Scrovegni Chapel. In the chapel, The Last Judgement fresco lies above the exit depicting the redeemed saints on Christ’s left and the damned souls on Christ’s right. Corresponding to the two groups are frescoes depicting personifications of seven virtues on the left wall and of seven vices on the right wall. The individual frescoes include enough detail to characterize a vice or virtue. Moreover, each fresco faces its opposite across the room, presenting an antithetical…