Italian painters

Jan Steen was a famous Dutch genre painter, born in the seventeenth century. In his paintings, he made his subjects mainly from his daily life. The scenes he painted were often lively and chaotic and the Dutch to this day often use the phrase “A Jan Steen household” meaning a chaotic and messy household. His paintings of household chaos were supposed to act as a warning to observers that life needed to be more organized and orderly. Today the Merry Family is a typical work of art that portrays a…

Around the year 1416 in the city of Florence the “Master of the Jarves Cassone" was born. Little is known about Apollonio di Giovanni’s private life, but his works remain influential masterpieces to this day. He trained in the circle of exceptionally skilled illuminators and miniaturists like Bartolomeo di Fruosino and Battista di Biagio Sanguini . Giovanni’s place in this circle allowed him to join the Guild of St Luke around 1442. Through this association Giovanni meets a fellow artist…

Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael. Renaissance art sought to capture the experience of the individual and the beauty and the mystery of the natural world (History). Leonardo da Vinci is known as the “Renaissance man” he was more than just a painter he was a scientist, mathematician, engineer, sculptor, architect, botanist, inventor,…

Monica Bonvicini, born in 1965 in Venice, a sculptor, video and installation artist, is arguably one of the leading Italian artists today. Bonvicini, educated at the University of Arts in Berlin (1986-93) and the California Institute of Arts in Valencia (1991-2), became seriously recognized by the international art scene in the late-90s. In her vast artistic repertoire, Bonvicini work through a wide range of media and thematics, primarily maintaining the critical, post-conceptual attitude. In…

Michelangelo was a famous Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer that belonged to the High Renaissance who influenced and developed a great part of the Western art. People from that time considered him as one of the best and greatest artist during his lifetime and is currently considered as one of the greatest artists due to his accomplishments. He is often considered, along with Leonardo da Vinci, as a contender of the archetypal Renaissance man. He was so successful with his…

Charles Sheeler understood machines as life’s meaning. To him, these structures were awe-inspiring, not because of what they produced, but because of the grandeur of their conception in the first place. Sheeler found his initial artistic identity in the detached nature of modernist world of architecture. However, throughout his career, Sheeler used his photographic skills to bring nostalgic emotions into his paintings of industrialization. Through the analysis of four of Sheeler’s paintings,…

As time passed many new forms of portraiture were developing. Painters began to depict the subjects in the photos with more distinctive features and were able to give a sense of identity to these people. The portraits were able to give the subject being painted a unique identity and expression to give the viewer a sense…

Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa near a North Italian port in 1451. His birth name was Christoforo Colombo (Reid 6). When Christopher Columbus was nineteen, his mother died (Baker 35). Christopher Columbus was a weaver with his father, and then he became a sailor of the Mediterranean (“Christopher Columbus”). He always said that one day he would be the captain of his own ship (Baker 29). In 1480, Columbus married Felipa Parestrello e Moniz, at the age of twenty-nine years old. She was the…

Filippo Brunelleschi was said to be one of the greatest sculptors of the early Italian renaissance. One of his most famous creations was making the design of the dome for the cathedral of Florence. Leonardo Da Vinci was known as the greatest single figure of the Italian renaissance. He was an architect, sculptor, engineer, inventor, painter, and scientist. Da Vinci traveled the country to make observations on nature. His most famous completed work was the Mona…

Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest Italian Renaissance artists, which was once explained that a painter will create paintings of small merit if he shall use the work of other as a stand; but if he will study from natural objects, he shall bear good fruit, especially for those who shall use nature as their standard. This was the philosophy followed by da Vinci in the preparation of his paintings. As a renaissance artist, he considered the imitation of nature as his primordial goal. That…