Raphael

The Sistine Chapel has amazing art pieces that are filled with mosaics on the floor and are painted with frescoes by early Renaissance artists. Michelangelo painted the artwork and completed it later on in his life and when revealed people admired and praised his work that seemed unrealistic because it didn't look like a painting. The nine scenes that are present in the ceiling move across the central panels representing the story of mand which also refers to the beginning of Chritianity and…

Giambattista Bodoni (b. 1740-1813, Saluzzo Piedmont, Italy) was an Italian printer and a designer of typefaces still used today. He was a third generation printmaker who modeled his type designs after Pierre Simon Fournier, "...but later felt inspired by the typography of John Baskerville" (Famous Graphic Designers). He was at the front of industrialized print making. The Bodoni typeface, according to Bodoni: The History of Being Awesome, is, "...an easily recognizable Romantic typeface with a…

The European Renaissance was a cultural movement that lasted from the 14th to the 16th centuries. It was a cultural and social change revolution, that was characterized as ingenuity, imagination and creativity. This time of the year is known for the contribution to today’s society where many new artists find inspiration from Donatello, Raffaello Sanzio, Sandro Botticelli among other great contributors. Also during that time Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni and Leonardo di ser Piero da…

When you hear the name Leonardo da Vinci, you immediately think of a fascinating Renaissance artist, but before he emerged as a successful artist, he was just a man looking for someone to pay him to paint. Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452 near Vinci, Italy. He was a much loved child and his father’s only son. Leonardo was a brilliant child, so brilliant that, “he used to baffle his master with the questions and problems he raised.” Pg.22. Since he had such an astute mind, he ended up being…

The Battle of San Romano was created by Paolo Uccello in c. 1438-40. It is currently at the National Gallery in London. This artwork’s medium is egg tempera with walnut oil and linseed oil on poplar panel. The painting depicts part of the the Battle of San Romano where the Florentines fight against the Sienese, specifically when Florentine’s ally, Micheletto da Cotignola counterattacks the enemy. This painting was one of the three panels of the Battle of San Romano. We can see the main figure,…

In the short time of 8 months after he arrived in Hobart and later on another offense this time of drunkenness, he was removed in December 1827 aboard the Prince Leopold to the secondary penal settlement at Macquarie Harbour. Details of Costantini’s life of this settlement are unclear. Stilwell supports that he was employed as a dispenser of medicines, and general assistant to the surgeon. Pearn notes that six surgeons served at Macquarie Harbour, a place where the extremely hard condition of…

This is fresco. This name is The School of Athens. Raffaello Sanzio drew at 1509-1511 on the wall. Raffaello is Italian. Fuesco find at Stanza della Segnatura, in Vatican. There are 59 people in the fresco and all of them important person in the world. He went at Urbino when Papa 2. Julius' architect recomnended Raffaello at Papa. Papa called artist because papa made a different fresco on the wall of Vatican library. After that Papa choosed Rafael. Rafael thinked to put famous philosophers'…

Perugino’s Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter and Gentile Bellini’s Procession of the Relic of the True Cross before the Church of St. Mark were painted fifteen years apart and in different parts of Italy (Venice and Rome), but both paintings use similar technique to convey depth in efforts to replicate and service the human gaze on a two dimensional surface. Both paintings demonstrate use of linear perspective to achieve this. There is a horizon line with a vanishing point in both pieces,…

Florentine Giotto may be the most important Italian painter of the 14th century. His work points to the Renaissance style that developed about 100 years later. He showed a lot of talent at a very young age and is said to have been apprenticed to the great Florentine painter Cimabue. He was almost a completely self-taught artist. He would always be working on what he loved. His work pointed to the Renaissance style that developed a century later. “Although Giotto was widely considered a pioneer…

Michelangelo was an artisan born in Caprese, Italy on March 6, 1475. He became an apprentice in painting and eventually became a sculptor and created a lot of his art in Italy. There three major projects he has completed that he is famous that are the Statue of David, and Pieta; he also created the ceiling painting for the Sistine Chapel of Rome. There aren’t many things that inspired Michelangelo to create his art, but there are some factors like some versions of stories of his life that he…