Raphael

Society in the Age of the Renaissance”). The characteristics of High Renaissance art encompassed “classical balance, harmony, and restraint” (Aboukhadijeh, “European Society in the Age of the Renaissance”). Many artists such as Leonardo Da Vinci and Raphael were very famous during the Renaissance. However, compared to the other artists, Michelangelo is…

Tiziano Vecellio, better known as Titian, painted Venus and Adonis in about 1554; during a period known as the High Renaissance. Venus and Adonis is a workshop copy of one of Titian’s earlier paintings of the same name, created as a part of a six-piece series commissioned by King Phillip II of Spain. Titian called the paintings in this series ‘poesie’, or poems, because each illustrates a mythological story inspired by ‘Metamorphoses’ by the Roman poet Ovid. Titian’s other works in this series…

and lasted in 16th century when Michelangelo died. In this era, there where several technical innovations such as the invention of oil painting, the use of Chiaroscuro, and the use of perspectives in paintings. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael are the so called “the three giants” who were very influential and well known for their works. Some of the well known features of renaissance art was the use of linear perspective, aerial perspective, sfumato, and chiaroscuro. In this paper, I…

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (Sandro Botticelli) was an Italian painter in the beginning of the Renaissance. His work predates some other famous artists such as Raphael or Michelangelo. Born March 4, 1445, Botticelli was the son of a tanner and was originally trained as a goldsmith. It was not until he met Fra Filippo Lippi that Botticelli learned to paint. In 1470, Botticelli was an independent master for his creation of the Fortitude that completed the series of Seven Virtues.…

Raffaello Sanzio was born on April 6th, 1483 in Urbino, Italy. He began painting in 1504 as an apprentice under Perugino. Raphael is best known for his series of “Madonnas” he painted while in Rome and in 1514, Pope Julius II hired him as his chief architect. A Madonna is Christin religious art, especially the depiction of the Virgin Mary. At he time he was hired as the Pope’s chief architect, he had just finished his last work in a famous series of Madonnas, an oil painting by the name of…

Bernard Berenson was born in Lithuania in 1865, and moved to America when he was 9 years old. Berenson studied art history at Harvard on scholarship, and set off traveling Europe in 1887 with monetary help from patrons, specifically Isabella Stewart Gardner. When money started to run out Berenson still desired to stay in Europe, so he became active in the art market. In 1890 England, Berenson met his future wife, Mary Smith, and with her collaboration, began writing books on Italian art. His…

The squealing pig demonstration of Galen is one of the most famous single physiological demonstrations of all time that even Leonardo da Vinci was inspired to produce a beautiful drawing of the recurrent laryngeal nerves (Gross, 1997). According to Gross (1998), it was Galen’s squealing pig demonstration that brought the first experimental and publicly repeatable evidence that the brain controls behavior. In his time, Galen even made lengthy arguments against Stoic philosophers, implying in…

Giovanni Antonio Canal (Canaletto): Analysis on 2 of Canaletto’s paintings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Canal_and_the_Church_of_the_Salute This painting is called “The Grand Canal at the Church of Salute.” I can see that this painting looks like it has been drawn with different sizes of brushes. The painting looks really realistic because Canaletto must have used a lot of different strokes to get the three dimensional look. The tone and shadow of the buildings are…

The transition movement that took place between the 14th and 17th century in Italy is known as the Renaissance time or by definition "rebirth". The philosophy that took place in the period is one of the humanism or the focus on the human being. One of the master artists of this time is Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) and one of the paintings that best represents the philosophy and art of this period is the Mona Lisa. The philosophy of humanism brought on a time where the focus was on the human…

Leonardo Da Vinci created some of the most iconic works of art throughout his career in painting. Those works of art include The Last Supper and Mona Lisa, these being his two most famous works. Since the 1500s copious amounts of money have been spent on protecting and restoring these works of art to ensure that future generations get to experience the artistry of Leonardo Da Vinci. These two works of art are greatly valued because they represent Da Vinci's passion for art, experimentation, and…