Italian painters

completely foreign. Today, when we see Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” and Michelangelo’s statue of David, we identify both as art and comparably we recognize the beauty of the art forms that they are. However, during the Renaissance, Botticelli, a painter, and Michelangelo, a sculptor, would have been recognized as having two very distinct professions and comparison of the two would be nonexistent. Today, artists are the outsiders of society who thrive in isolation, but in the Renaissance…

not appeared in the course lectures or tutorials, and discuss it from THREE different methodological perspectives. Different methodological perspectives enable further examination of David with the head of Goliath (1573-1610), painting made by Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610). David with the head of Goliath can be evaluated using biographically-based art history on the life and work of Caravaggio, providing a detailed exposition of the life of the artist, closely…

Romeus and Juliet is considered to be William Shakespeare chief source for his famous play Romeo and Juliet. In 1565, a version of Romeo and Juliet was printed in the second volume of The Palace of Pleasure, a collection of tales, the editor William Painter, clerk of the armoury to Queen Elizabeth shortly after she came to the throne. Many critics consider Painter’s work inferior to Brooke’s poem, just as Brooke’s poem is thought to be inferior to Shakespeare’s…

Illuminating Florence is a oil on canvas painting by Domenico di Michelino created in 1456. The painting depicts Dante Alighieri along the city of Florence, Mount Purgatory, the Earthly Paradise and the Celestial Spheres. Domenico di Michelino, an Italian painter, born in Florence, primarily depicted scenes from the Bible. It is not surprising then that like many other artist, Dante's Divine Comedy called to him and like many other artists, he attempted to paint Dante's words on canvas. His…

if we fail to look past his grotesque beasts and monsters biography real name was Jeroen van Aken and in Spain, he is known as “El Bosco”. Bosch was a Dutch painter of the 15th-16th century Little is known about the life of this Early Netherlandish Renaissance artist, but we do know that both his father and grandfather were also painters. Bosch's father Antonius van Aken was also an adviser to the Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Blessed Lady, a group of Christians dedicated to glorifying the…

construe the general goal of the painter, which is to emphasise the sitter, but the brightness does confuse viewers at first sight. The inclusion of an interior space is groundbreaking itself (if we consider the Arnolfini Portrait (fig.2) as a kind of certificate rather than a portrait), but the depiction in Christus’s painting seems immature and the depth of the room defies common sense. As the figure seems too large for this narrow space, it could be inferred that the perspective may not…

Durer was a masterful German artist in the Renaissance era. His precocious talents lead him to become one of the art histories most prominent artists. While Durer has been compared to the Italian master Leonardo de Vinci because of their similar interests in naturalism and environmental perceptions, Durer differed by being able to spread awareness of himself and his work across Europe. Adventuring out as a young gifted apprentice, Durer traveled abroad advancing his gifts, while leaving a…

Layla (Seonyoung) Yun Mrs. Paulazzo APEH (Period 5) 20 February 2017 To what extent did liberals and nationalists achieve their goals in Europe between 1815 and 1900? Between 1815 and 1900, many Europeans were suffering due to horrible living conditions. Liberals and nationalists sought changes for the Europeans by promoting equality, individual freedom, and passion towards their own nation. Although achievements of liberals and nationalists were not maintained for long period of time, they…

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio born 1572 in Milan, Italy. Caravaggio, was an Italian artist who worked and practice mostly in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. He is most famous for his paintings of flowers and fruit in his factory-like workshop, a small Boy Peeling a Fruit (his earliest known painting), a boy with a Basket of Fruit, and a young Sick Bacchus, supposedly a self-portrait done while healing from a serious illness that ended his employment for a while in 1594.…

other way around. Overall History Of Comics And Cartoons Caricatures- 1700 to 1770 What is a Caricature? Well, the word comes from the italian word, Caricare, meaning to to exaggerate, and what Caricature means itself is a drawing that gives weight (or oversimplify and exaggerate) to the most striking features to its subject for a Comic effect . Many Italian Artists (Including Leonardo da Vinci!) drew Caricature, jeez! People say that comics aren't a true work of art, but even da Vinci drew…