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The Medici were representatives of early Renaissance patronage, however, the only ones. Lorenzo de Medici was a strong ruler of the Florentine Republic, and is known for is patronage of the arts during the early Renaissance. Cosimo de Medici learned how using the arts would help him to influence the people and help him gain power. Because of Cosimo money and power art and architecture in Florence was flourishing during the Florentine Renaissance. The Procession of the Magi is filled with the…

Leonardo da Vinci is and was a well know Renaissance artist and inventor who was well known for his perspective paintings. While he was not the first to discover this phenomenon, he still adopted and expanded on the idea and asked the question, how can I make a flat surface portrait resemble a realistic picture? Filippo Brunelleschi was the one who had a system of sizing objects on the painting, according to what he wanted the viewer to see or focus on. Leon Battista Alberti wrote a book about…

The project that I wanted to look into a little bit more was the discoveries and innovation of Leonardo Di Vinci. I have studied his work before and I am intrigued by all of his work. Through all the reading I have done and the studying I have done I have realized that he has in fact had a major impact on perspective, light, shadows, and color in painting and influence that it had on other artists. I think it is interesting that this was listed and how exploration and discovery apply to many…

Leonardo da Vinci was born April 15th, 1452, in the town of Vinci, Italy, to a notary named Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci and a peasant girl named Caterina. Few documentations are known of the early years of his life, although it is known that he lived in his mother’s home until the age of 5, moving to his father’s household after this age. Leonardo’s father was married four times throughout his life, with the first three being unsuccessful for various reasons. Starting at the age…

El Greco, also known by his birth name of Doménikos Theotokópoulos, was alive from 1541 to April 7th, 1614. The name “El Greco”, literally translated as The Greek, refers to El Greco’s Greek ethnicity and Spanish nationality. He was a painter, sculptor, and architect belonging to the Spanish Renaissance. He was born to a prosperous urban family in Crete, which was then part of the Republic of Venice; this was known as the center of Post Byzantine art, where El Greco received initial training to…

It wasn’t until the eighteenth century that scholarly interest in Muslim archeology began. This interest started in Europe with a collection of coins that dated from the eighth to eleventh century. After this, other branches of archeological interest in Muslim history spread, focusing on epigraphy and paleography. In 1761, Sir William Chambers designed a compilation of buildings and gardens that formed the Kew in Surrey. One of these buildings is the Alhambra, which was intended to be Moorish…

The Birth of Venus is a truly magnificent piece of artwork. It was painted around 1480 with tempera on canvas. This painting was the first large mythological painting since antiquity. Botticelli painted this during the Renaissance era. Here are excerpts from Stanze per la Giostra, by Angelo Poliziano, that are though to be what Botticelli painted his image about. “A young woman with nonhuman countenance, is carried on a conch shell, wafted to shore by playful zephyrs…the Hours (Goddess of the…

Titian Fact and Opinion Titian a high renaissance painter who hasn’t quite raise to fame in the current age such as Leonardo da vici but back in his age he was one of the most well-known artist of his time, and is still know as one of the forefront artist of the high renaissance. Taking his era even higher being known for his use of colors, as well of contribution to altarpiece paintings, mythologies, and landscapes. (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History) He brought art to a new level and…

The piece of art that I decided to criticize for this assignment is a panting called “The School of Athens.” This painting, “The School of Athens” is a piece of art that was done by Raphael. It is a 4-1/4” x 26’4-5/8” sized painting. You can currently find this piece of art in Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy. “The School of Athens” is one of Raphael’s 7 cartoons. He did this art work on wet plaster so it is quite different than normal art work. The subject of this art is the school which…

Leonardo da Vinci was an incredible artist and sculptor, an inventor ahead of his time, and an exceptional thinker. Da Vinci’s work far surpassed the standard of the period and thus landed him the nickname, “Renaissance Man.” He paved the way for modern innovations in art, science, and technology, making him one of the greatest thinkers of the Renaissance. Leonardo da Vinci was born the illegitimate son of a peasant woman and a notable man of Florentine, Italy in 1452. Da Vinci was raised by his…