Holofernes

period was non-religious art. German artist, Lucas Cranach, was still very involved the painting of religious pieces that told stories from the Bible. “A Portrait of a Lady of the Saxon Court as Judith With the Head of Holofernes”, tells the story of Judith going into the tent of Holofernes and seducing him while he drinks and eventually decapitates him after he falls asleep. During the Renaissance period the depiction of women was a very sexualized and were meant to be paintings that suggested…

Despite the countless prejudices against females engaging in what was believed to be a male’s area of expertise, Artemisia Gentileschi, gained a reputation, and established herself as a successful artist. Gentileschi’s artistic journey was not about revenge, but a fight for recognition of her unbelievable talent amidst her contemporary. Present-day she is recognized as one of the utmost accomplished and expressionistic artist of the era. However, Artemisia did not earn the respect as a female…

In Glenn legion’s painting “I do not always feel colored” created in 1990, he uses black oil sticks to paint black letters onto a white background. I chose Glenn Legion because he beautifully demonstrates how we as a species should stand up against societal stigmas of different cultures and instead embrace each other’s originality to create a better world together. In this piece, Legion succeeds in promoting a visual dialogue of how separated he feels our society has become based on our skin…

Caravaggio took Italian Baroque art in a new direction. One of the biggest changes in Caravaggio’s works is that instead of sticking to the norm of painting a generalized, almost stylized version of the subject matter, he painted with intense realism. He painted every detail that he saw. From the dirt under a person’s fingernails, to the perfect brown spots on rotting fruit. This actually caused Caravaggio to run into some trouble with his paintings. When commissioned to do a painting of Saint…

Mantegna was an important artist during the Renaissance. Mantegna first started his art career in 1448 in Padua, but then left at an early age and went to Verona, then Rome. Mantegna’s most known artwork include The Adoration of the Magi, The Death of the Virgin, The Presentation at the Temple. Mantegna is best known for perspective. This essay will discuss his greatest works. Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian was one of Mantegna’s pieces of work. The subject of this piece of artwork was Saint…

Donatello's talent and contributions. With every look and gesture of Donatello’s work, he was able to capture life itself with his powerful expressivity. Some of his famous works include; David, Judith and Holofernes, and Equestrian Statue of Gattamelata. Donatello is credited with inventing ‘stiacciato’, translated to English as ‘flattening out’. It’s a form of relief that is highly praised and prized as a decorative component on cathedral walls and other various…

The main evidence comes from anecdotes by Angelo Poliziano in his "Detti piacevoli". This may not be surprising in the context of attitudes prevailing in the 15th- and 16th-century Florentine republic The Judith and Holofernes, begun for the Duomo DI Siena dates from 1455 to 1460 but was later acquired by the Medici. Until 1461, Donatello remained in Siena, where he created a St. John the Baptist, also for the Duomo, and models for its gates, now lost.This work is characterized…

It is these three Christian themes of love towards God, free will, and suffering that are significantly present in Dante’s Purgatorio. Dante Aligheieri was an Italian poet from Florence, who wrote his most famous poem, the Divine Comedy, in exile. Dante wrote the Divine Comedy for his idealized love, Beatrice, who appears in the trilogy as a goal for Dante. He traverses Hell, Purgatory, and even into Heaven to find and be with Beatrice. In the first part of his poem, titled Inferno, Dante, led…

In her lecture, Erin Runions, began by explained that in the bible disgust starts as disgust toward an ethnic group. This disgust then becomes disgust toward different kinds of sexual practices. Next, she argues that in America, the intuitive reaction to gay sex is one of disgust and she wants to convert that disgust into humor thinking with affect theory. Affect theory is an unconscious movement in the body felt physically and that feeling is then labeled as emotion. From this she argues that…

I really wanted to do a comparison of Degas, and Cassatt, like Judith Beheading Holofernes in which both Gentileschi and Caravaggio, I felt since Degas and Cassatt had such a close relationship that was a possibility, but my research turned up nothing. I chose to compare Degas’s After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself, and Cassatt’s Young Mother, Daughter, and Son, since both pieces were created using pastels. Both artist have a wide range of styles in their work, I will focus not on how they…