Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The European Renaissance and Reformation was a pivotal time in history; numerous artists and thinkers from that time had created a new set of ideals that shaped the works of playwrights and poets. The new set of ideals were created by Humanist philosophers and were vastly different from the Medieval and Deterministic ideals that were previously popular. Medieval and Deterministic ideals coincided with the ideas that man was the scum of the Earth and that man would never amount to anything. Man…

L’homme armé Surviving today in music manuscripts of the late fifteenth century and beyond are more than thirty-five polyphonic Masses built on the popular tune of L’homme armé. Wright & Simms (2010) reported that composers borrowed this melody more often for religious purposes than any other piece of music. Pierce (2011) asserted that the composer of the original monophonic melody L’homme armé, while unknown, created the piece around the 10th century near Burgundy, east-central France and later…

The Lasting Influence of Giovanni Battista Piranesi Giovanni Battista Piranesi was an 18th century printmaker and architect with a fascination for ancient Roman architecture, but to future generations of artists, he was a visionary who the rebuilt the ruins of classical Roman architecture into macabre and overwhelming structures of fantasy. Piranesi’s Le Carceri infuses his own imagination into each of the 16 plates in this series, manipulating space, light and perspective to create a…

Museum makes the same point. Basking in the grand display of passion that many pieces radiated while they are displayed in the Chrysler Museum the Memorial to James, First Earl Stanhope seemed to have the most personality. The Italian artist Giovanni Battista Pittoni is considered to be a wonderful artist by the general public who are lucky enough to view his works in museums…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, or the Met, is the most famous museum in New York City, and the largest museum in North America. The Met also owns a museum in far Upper Manhattan called “The Cloisters”, which predominantly showcases various forms of art from the medieval period. Although, I will be talking about the main Met compound located at 1000 Fifth Avenue. The Met’s permanent collection is comprised of art from an expansive range of culture and various time periods within said cultures.…