Galleria Borghese

Galleria Borghese: An examination of the power of patronage Located in the public park Villa Borghese, this historical home, turned museum, hosts one of the most important italian art collections. The Galleria contains a range of works, majority being Baroque and Renaissance art. The patronage of the Borghese family yielded massively important original Baroque masterpieces, and helped foster and shape some of the era’s greatest talents, like that of Bernini. “Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice.”-Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Without the guidance and patronage Bernini received from a young age he might not have turned into the sculptural and…

The first sculpture that that was chosen, was Daphne and it was created in 2007. This sculpture is referenced to a sculpture named Apollo and Daphne, created by an Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The event that influenced MacDowell to create this sculpture, was based on her travels around Europe, more specifically Italy. The meaning and purpose behind this artwork, Daphne and many more is environmental issues. Her travels through Renaissance, Italy influenced the sculpture, Daphne,…

La Grange Fire Departments own Firefighter/Paramedic James Baum was the keynote speaker. James Baum, is a military veteran who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom I & II (2003-2004) and in South Korea as a member of the 8th Army United Nations Command Honor Guard (2005-2006). After completing his service he then studied to become a firefighter Paramedic. James served previously with Sugar Grove and Wheaton Fire Departments before joining the La Grange Fire Department in 2010.…

Marxist theory argues the impact of high social entities on the masses, David with the head of Goliath exemplifies this aspect as the main subject is a story of the Old Testament, religious reproductions were highly affiliated with the Catholic Church in Europe as major patrons of the arts. According to Althusser, the church is an ideological state apparatus which uses materiality to impart beliefs on the lower classes. David with the head of Goliath was not made exclusively for the church;…

Business communication ASSIGNMENT 1 PARAPHRASE-REFERENCE Kaushik Kalal Student no- 300984320 Teacher-Marzena “Dying shopping malls are wreaking havoc on suburban America” by Hayley Peterson Original Rolling Acres Mall in Akron, Ohio, opened in 1975 to great fanfare as the premier shopping destination for the surrounding community. But customer traffic started to slow more than a decade ago, several department stores abandoned their leases, and the mall began to fail. It lost its last…

David was sculpted by Michelangelo which he began working on 1501 and finished in 1504. This sculpture is 518 centimeters (17’ tall) and is made of marble. It was made during the Italian Renaissance. This sculpture is located in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence, Italy (Smart History, 2015). This stature was made to represent the biblical hero David, as the title suggests, who fought Goliath (Smart History, 2015). David is a young individual that battles Goliath when his older…

2. Parioli and Flaminio These regions are known for the parks and the famous Villa Borghese gardens which is its focal point. In addition, there is a deviation from historical presence in these localities. Visitors with children find it most amusing to visit this area as children have freedom and multiple options to obtain entertainment starting from play areas (like Casino di Rafaello), puppet theatres and ending with the great Casa del Cinema. Villa Borghese gardens occupy a total space of 148…

tuft of hair to the twining rope and scaly breast plate beneath him. This, too, adds to the dramatic effect of the sculpture. Bernini’s David shows us what distinguishes Baroque sculpture from the sculpture of the preceding periods: its new, active relationship with the space it occupies. It deliberately avoids self-sufficiency for an illusion…. the illusion of presences or forces that implied by the behavior of the statue. He portrays an energy exploding through the dramatic and intense moment…

He was also known for his painting and architecture. When Bernini created art, he would portray theatrical descriptions with characters showing them in a powerful emotional state. Bernini was born in Naples in 1598 with his father being a sculptor. Bernini’s reputation was established by four masterpieces that he created that are all on display in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. They were the Aeneas, Anchises, Ascanius, The Rape of Proserpina, Apollo and Daphne, and David. He adapted the…

still mostly tranquil, he made drawn studies of fighting nude men, one of the obsessions of the period in Florence. Another drawing is a portrait of a young woman that uses the three-quarter length pyramidal composition of the just-completed "Mona Lisa", but still looks completely Raphaelesque. He started to do all of this when Leonardo Da Vinci returned to Florence for the years of 1500-1506. During these years Michelangelo, Da Vinci, and Raphael were in Florence; Da Vinci was thirty years…