Italian painters

The characteristics of paintings by important Renaissance artists Michelangelo - Michelangelo is widely regarded as the most famous artist of the Italian Renaissance. Among his works are the "David" and "Pieta" statues and the Sistine Chapel frescoes. His works are characterized as monumental, muscular figures with reclining, twisted poses in his sculptures and painting compositions based on diagonal lines and curves . Michelangelo did not believe that beauty was guaranteed through the…

Sandro Botticelli In 1445, a great Italian artist was born in Florence. His name was Alessandro Dei Filipepi, but known as Sandro Botticelli. His older brother was called Botticella, which meant barrel, so they gave Sandro a nickname, Botticelli, which meant little barrel. He loved art, drawing, and painting his whole life. He has over one hundred and fifty painting. He was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance. Sandro Botticelli was liked and adored by the people; because of his…

Raphael was born on April 6, 1483 in Urbino, Italy. He was originally born as Rafaello Sanzio, he is an Italian Renaissance painter and architect. Raphael’s father, Giovanni Santi was painter at the court of Urbino. In 1499, Raphael decided to go to Perugia, to work with another famous artist Perugino. His “elegant and graceful style” was attracted by Raphael, he used this inspiration towards Marriage of the Virgin. When Raphael was eight years old, his mother had passed away, and a few years…

contrast essay, the artworks I picked are “Pieta” by Titian and “Lamentation” by Giotto Di Bondone. Titian was born in Cadore, Italy in 1485 and died in 1576. He was an Italian painter during the Renaissance who painted works for Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Pope Paul III, and King Philip II of Spain. Titian was a leading Italian painter that everyone admired. Most of Titian’s portraits displayed fresco, equally skillful landscape backgrounds, mythological, and religious subjects. His interest…

St. Anselm, an Italian monk, first initiated the ontological argument. He was a firm As a firm believer in God and hoped to prove and share his strong faith on God’s existence by using logic and reason. He defines God as ‘something than which nothing greater can be thought.’ Anselm states that there is a difference between understanding God as a concept and understanding him to exist. To back up this claim he uses the analogy of a painter. He elaborates that the first step a painter takes is by…

of power and stability, it also shows her capability of doing more than just housework and other jobs that are assumed to most women. The way Tito put Rebecca up against the crowd of men is similar to how the Jews resisted full immersion into the Italian culture presented in the Renaissance at the time they had migrated there. Although they were in the minority, the Jews of this time period tried to make themselves known and culturally independent from the values of the Renaissance. This was…

increase in religious commission. One such commision, was Peter Paul Rubens, The Raising of the Cross. Commissioned for the Church of St. Walburga in Antwerp, The Raising of the Cross, was a massive altarpiece, which blended both Netherlandish, and Italian art to create a dynamic and inspirational painting. Unlike earlier paintings of Christ crucified, Rubens chooses to depict Christ being raised on the cross, a deeply unsettling, and dynamic image that demands attention. Using a diagonal…

ring and stared his conversation by thanking him for granting Leonardo the opportunity to meet, in Italian language “Your Holiness, thank you for granting me this private audience with you.” In the meeting, the two men talked about, film actor’s charitable foundation and the way they can work on climate change.…

(1475-1564) is renowned as the greatest artist of the 16th centaury, and was a central figure throughout the Italian High Renaissance. Being examined, is the biography of this distinguished artist. Observations will be made from Michelangelo’s sketches, sculptures, poetry and letters. Michelangelo’s philosophies will also be addressed, along with the views and ideologies of sexuality in the Italian Renaissance era, from the perspectives of contemporaries and scholars. Discussions on the theme of…

The artists created images to enhance their sense of individual worth. Northern Renaissance painters did not make a Demi-god of man which the Italians did. They painted man as they saw him. Based on mortality they painted man clothed not nude. Carefully depicted in detail man's’ world with actual backgrounds and landscape. Painting from the North were smaller and intimate…