Michelangelo Antonioni

An encyclopedia can be classified as a secondary source. In this New World Encyclopedia article we have three categories used to describe important achievements throughout the Renaissance. The categories are background, characteristics, and evaluation. In the background section the authors highlight important dates such as, the time period the Renaissance extended through. The characteristic category has the most information, the sub categories are tradition, arts, science and technology,…

commonly known Basilica Plan that most churches follow. It contained a narrow pathway to lead to the speaker of the church. Saint Peter was the first pope to have this church built in the Vatican City of Rome. He had gathered many great artists, like Michelangelo, to create his church. An obscure piece of architecture is Frank Lloyd’s Fallingwater that was made in 1938 and captured by Time Magazine, for its imagination aspect upon people. Overall, it represented a great architect. To…

For this second assignment, I have chosen to talk about dry media and wet media art works. “The dry media, which include metalpoint, chalk, charcoal, graphite, and pastel, consist of coloring agents, or pigments, that are sometimes ground or mixed with substances that hold the pigment together, called binders.”(p.165) I selected the composition “Study of a Woman's Head or the Angel of the Vergine delle Rocce, 1473” by Leonardo da Vinci. This is merely just a sketch of a woman's head from the…

The picture on the right is the Giotto, Madonna and Child Enthroned, painted in Ognissanti Madonna for the congregation of the Ognissanti in Florence in 1310. It was commissioned by a dark religious request called the Humiliati, who were known for their modest, beggar way of life. To bolster themselves, and their congregation, the Humiliati worked in wool production. They were outstanding for utilizing workmanship to empower sentiments of commitment. On the other hand, the picture on the left is…

Futurism was the most important and influential Italian avant-garde art movement that took speed, technology and modernity as its inspiration which emerged from the 20h century (The Art Story, 2016). The group of the Futurists loved speed, noise, machines, pollution, and urban landscapes; they were committed to change in Italy as the country was behind in comparison to the rest of Europe. Futurism was not about visual or traditional art, they were fascinated by new visual technology and used it…

During the Renaissance ages Leonardo Da Vinci had many effects that had helped the Renaissance with artistic aspects. Leonardo Da Vinci sought a universal language painting and affected the Renaissance in so many ways and changed everyone's perspective of art. He would always go beyond everyone and would never stop until he would discover new things. Leonardo Da Vinci had made art into a whole different level and had made three big projects the Mona Lisa, the last supper, and discovered a…

Truthfully I never gave much thought to what effect science had or has on art. Even with my background being principally in the Architecture and Design, it was always just numbers to me. Art to me is something that is subjective at best, I love the craftsman style that doesn’t mean everybody does. Below is my interpretation of this week’s readings. Renaissance I am not sure if you would express [1] “Vitruvian Man” by Leonardo da Vinci as a work of art, undoubtedly this is a clear-cut display…

Raphael received his ever first training from his father, Giovanni Santi, as he came from a family of artists. His father was a well known painter as he was the court painter for the Duke of Urbino, painting several altar pieces which still remain to this day in several areas of Europe. Raphael helped his father paint some of the court pieces, as he got the basic painting techniques from him. The training he received from his father was only the starting base to his successful art career. His…

body is much larger than her son’s. These disproportionate figures were necessary for Michelangelo to portray Mary’s graceful cradle-like hold of Christ, in a natural configuration. Michelangelo emphasised his enlargement of Mary, through an amassment of the garments on her lap into a sea of folded drapery. While this detail of the folds in the cloth served a practical purpose, it also allowed Michelangelo to display his skills when working with marble, for after his work was complete, the…

Leonardo da Vinci's works. Raphael's experimentation with this theme culminated in 1507 with his painting, La Belle jardine. That same year, Raphael created his most ambitious work in Florence, the Entombment, which was evocative of the ideas that Michelangelo had recently expressed in his Battle of Cascina. Raphael moved to Rome in 1508 to paint in the Vatican "Stanze" ("Room"), under Pope Julius II’s patronage. From 1509 to 1511, Raphael toiled over what was to become one of the Italian High…