Fresco

The low relief sculpture was made in Egypt from 3000 to 2000 B.C. Back in the days, it was prosperous to spread out their original religion in Egypt. Egyptians believed in Pantheon their God, Isis mother goddess, and Osiris God of afterlife. In order to worship God, they sacrificed the bird as an offering to God. The facial expression of Egyptian’s man represents his faith in God. Also, he doesn’t hesitate to give the bird for sacrifice. Something that look like hands from above seem blessings…

first, Michelangelo refused saying he was a sculptor and had no experience as a fresco painter. However, he quickly changed his mind and accepted the commission and then spent the next four years painting his most famous masterpiece. The Sistine Chapel’s center panel shows a series of nine stories from the Book of Genesis. Since Michelangelo was by trade, a sculptor, he used this knowledge when painting the frescos and had to first apply plaster to the ceiling before he was able to paint.…

drawing. Michelangelo’s education and early training in the fields of art, evolved in the city of Florence. Initially, young Michelangelo was an apprentice to the leading Fresco painter of his era, Domenico Ghirlandaio. Although, Michelangelo’s apprenticeship was short-lived, he developed an extensive understanding on the art of Fresco painting. Therefore, Michelangelo had the opportunity to enter the garden workshop of the powerful Lorenzo di Medici. Subsequently, Michelangelo found grounding…

This fresco shows us a priest standing at the entrance holding a vessel; another attending the sacred fire and the other leads the faithful. This then can tell us that these two Italian towns had similarities in influencing them and making them both so similar…

His frescos Disputation of the Holy Sacrament, The School of Athens and The Parnassus are also clear demonstrations of the humanistic influence within his works. Disputation of the Holy Sacrament depicts theologists such as the original four Doctors of the Church…

church through a divine intervention. In three of these frescoes, Raphael depicted either Leo X, or Julius II which Leo X then and now became the Pope in 1513. The 4th fresco in this room showed the liberation of Saint Peter from prison. Raphael had painted part of a third room, the Stanza dell’Incendio, which he named after its main fresco “The Fire in the…

As more artists started to move away from painting on the walls of a church or a chapel, the use of fresco declined. The wealthy private patrons started wanting smaller and more portable artworks, particularly for more domestic settings. For example, Venus of Urbino by Titian was commissioned by Duke of Urbino Guidobaldo II Della Rovere, and Portrait of…

artist and the location of the piece. This masterpiece of Diego Rivera adorns the south wall of the Detroit Industry Mural exhibit in the Detroit Institute of Art of Detroit, MI. Rivera, originally from Mexico, was commissioned by Ford to create the frescos from 1932-1933 that depict scenes and abstractions of industrialization in the manufacturing belt and Ford’s Rogue Factory. These scenes complement Goerge Galsters’s interpretation of industrialization in his book, Driving Detroit that…

Last Judgment. It shows how creative and intensely spiritual Michelangelo was. He believed in his work and you could really tell in this masterpiece. I like this work of his the most because it is different. He created many sculptures, but never a fresco painting like this. This painting was on the wall and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, that…

Due to the fact that fresco cannot be altered while the artist is working, Leonardo chose to cap the stone wall with a double layer of dry plaster. Then, deriving from a panel painting, he added an undercoat of white lead to boost the brightness of the oil and tempera that was…