Museo del Prado

Aundrea Owsley Professor Sevak Critical Thinking Essay 19 April 2015 Executions of the Third of May and Guernica The two, prominent paintings “Guernica” by Pablo Picasso and “Executions of the Third of May” by Francisco de Goya both record and commemorate events that have taken place. These paintings are antiwar symbols that are still looked upon today in grief. Even though both paintings are from two very different time periods they both show an outcry of the nation of Spain in pain and dismay…

Fig. 46. In the early Renaissance, Dante’s Inferno, became a powerful classic that dramatized Satan’s sphere of influence in hell; drawing by Giovanni Stradano, 1550. It occurred first as part of the epic, The Divine Comedy, and became known as a devilishly chilling account of Satan’s domain. A s mentioned in the last chapter, after the Emperor Constantine’s conversion into Christianity around A.D. 325, he ordered the closing of a significant amount of pagan cults and orgiastic temples…

texts. Since an 1826 acquisition it has resided within The National Gallery, London. Titian also produced three other works in this series; the Prado’s pair, Bacchanal of the Andrians and The Worship of Venus, which are currently held in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. At 176.5 x 191 cm Bacchus and Ariadne is a great artwork composed of many elements…