Italian painters

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators. They leave people with unanswered questions. The Mona Lisa is a famous painting by the Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor and architect Leonardo da Vinci. It as created sometime between 1503 and 1519, when he was living in Florence. ("Mona Lisa By Leonardo Da Vinci Arts." UKessay.com. 11 2013. All Answers Ltd. 01 2018) It now hangs in the Louvre, in Paris, where it remains an object of pilgrimage in the…

The Renaissance or the rebirth of European civilization was the period following the Middle Ages. When Greece and Rome classical world declined and a surge of interest in new ways of perceiving the world, revolutionized techniques in art, literature, politics, science among others innovations created the foundation for our modern advancements. According to history-world.org, the Renaissance also witnessed the discovery and exploration of new continents, the substitution of the Copernican for…

called one of the principal artists and one of the most excellent masters of his age because of the merits, grandeur, and multitude of his works, was created by nature herself to become a painter” (Wiesner-Hanks 117-120). Vasari’s quotation provides powerful insight into the life of one of the most beloved painters from Florence in the fifteenth century. In Old Man and Young, Domenico Ghirlandaio powerfully depicts the emotional relationship between a young boy and an older gentleman while…

John Singer Sargent was born in 1856 in Florence, Italy even though his parents were native to North America. He was provided with little schooling other than geography, math and reading, but learned to speak Italian, French, and German. His mother was an amateur artist and encouraged him to paint with her and after seeing the skill and ability he had his parents enrolled him in his first-documented formal art training at the Academia di Belle Arti in Florence. In spring of 1874 his father…

Picasso: Good morning everyone! Welcome to the PastArt Studio where we interview artists from the past. Here with me today is the famous Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. Raphael was born in 1483 and died 1520 So Raphael! What was life like for you as a Renaissance artist? Raphael: Well Picasso, I was a painter and an architect in the 15th century and I ran a large workshop and even though I died so young, I left a lot of my art work. Many of my pieces are found in the Vatican Palace.…

years 1300-1700. The three I chose are very good because they all talk about the history but from different views and occurrences. The first source I would refer to is the Italian Renaissance Reader. From 1300-1700 was when the Renaissance occurred and this book gives you an idea of who all the best writers, scholars, painters, poets, architects, and power family names were. Each selection represents a person from one or many of those fields to talk about how they lived and worked in the…

Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh and The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck are both famous paintings that were painted during the Post-Impressionism era and the Early Renaissance era. Each piece is unique and display different artistic composition. Starry Night portrays a glowing night sky over a village and The Arnolfini Portrait portrays a wealthy couple holding hands in a bedroom. The differences in time period and the artists’ experiences influenced the aesthetics of both artworks. Vincent…

Italy. Dante was and has been called "the Father of the Italian language”. His depictions of hell, purgatori and heaven have provided inspiration for large body of Western art. Dante also, influenced many artists, amongst are John Milton, William Shakespeare. In addition, Dante was the first to use of interlocking three-line rhyme scheme was attributed to him. His comedy is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.…

reflections in paintings. It is around this time period that the motif of the mirror begins to appear in various works of art. An example of this can be seen in Paolo Veronese’s painting Venus with a Mirror. Paolo Veronese was one of the leading painters of Venetian painting in the cinquecento, following in the tradition of Titian, and is known for being one of the best colourists of the Renaissance. The painting shows a nude Venus with her back to the viewer and face in profile, admiring…

The Influence of Daphnis and Chloe’s Translation of 1718 on 18th Century Art: The Impact of an Artist’s Subject Matter Throughout history, there has always been a consistent interest in Classical arts and literature and from this intellects in all subjects have based their life works. In perspective to this, Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe from the Second Sophistic (2nd/3rd Century AD) has played a role in guiding itself to become not only a novel but also artworks from paintings to plays (Morrison,…