Renaissance humanism

Describe The title of this painting is called the Ship of Fools by Hieronymus Bosch. It was painted around 1490 to 1500. Bosch used oil on wood. This painting is 58 centimeters by 33 centimeters. In this painting, there are about twelve people. They are either naked in the water or wearing pilgrim-like clothing. There is one person, however, who is dressed in all white with pointed ears sitting on a tree branch. The first thing I see is a man in the water. My gaze then moved up through the…

After reviewing Pablo Picasso’s Bull’s Head sculpture, his ability to assemble the bike seat and handlebars and maintain it’s simplicity yet resemble the image of a Bull’s head is astonishing. I believe that if a much more modern seat and handlebar’s were used, then the apparent perspective of the Bull’s head wouldn’t have been as discernible. “The marvelous thing about bronze is that it can give the most heterogeneous objects such unity that it’s sometimes difficult to identify the elements…

It is amazing to see how religion has made such an impact on music and dancing. As far back as the Renaissance religion had an enormous impact on both. During the Renaissance it was mostly the Roman Catholic Church that had powerful control. If you were a troubadour or trouvères participating in secular music and not in the office or mass participating in Gregorian Chant than you were considered part of the lowest social class. However, if it was not for the troubadours and trouvère we probably…

The vast systems of control infiltrate all aspects of human life in the young adult novel, from the institutional to the biological, and thus the novel clearly continues an established dystopian tradition of critiquing totalitarianism and emphasizing the importance of individual freedom and privacy. The Giver, (1993) winner of the Newbery Medal of 1994, by Lois Lowry concentrates on situating the tradition and characteristics of dystopian fiction, to showcase that the novel continues an…

Thesis: “Is the Dark Ages’ an appropriate term to describe the Middle Ages? The “Dark Ages” sounds like the title of a deep, dark, despairing, and desolate period of time, with gray, grim skies and little beauty. However, the “Dark Ages” is not really an appropriate term to describe the Middle Ages. Many people who hear the term “Dark Ages” often believe that this refers to a period of history that was essentially a very dark and intellectually depressed period. The term portrays a very grim…

1. Discuss the composition of the work, and how this informs its meaning. Giotto’s buon fresco Lamentation (circa 1305), located in the Scrovegni Chapel, is a devotional work of the Renaissance Period that depicts the mourning of Christ after he has been taken off the cross. The composition is arranged to draw the viewer in a narrative manner to the central focus of Jesus and Mary’s figures. This is achieved through the dramatic angle of the hill that both attracts the viewer’s focus down to…

Illuminated manuscripts are pieces of art, usually with hints of gold and silver and other bright colors to make the new look illuminated and beautiful. There are many ways that illuminated manuscripts were found in the Middle Ages. For example manuscripts could be found in something as simple as borders on pages and a picture in an article. They also could be found in very large and detailed art such as a historical initial or even wall sized art. All of these ways and more were used during the…

Diego Velazquez was born in the 1600’s, and was a renowned painter of the Baroque period. Known most famously for his painting, Las Meninas, Velazquez inspired and was emulated by numerous artists. Beginning in 1611, for six years he apprenticed at the hand of Francisco Pacheco, acquiring skills on how to paint with an idealized style. However, after his apprenticeship, Velazquez shifted techniques to paint with a more realistic manner. Following his first commission by the royal family of…

The greatest architects of the renaissance include Filippo Brunelleschi, Leon Battista Alberti, Giuliano da Sangallo, Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Palladio. The renaissance was a the time of religious art this means that there were lots of cathedrals and churches being built. The renaissance movement started in Florence, Italy, with Filippo Brunelleschi. He was the first architect to design a dome and come up with a way to build said dome that would go on the Florence Cathedral.…

The limestone painted bust of Nefertiti and was created in the 18th Dynasty between 1353-1335 BCE and was found in the workshop of sculptor, Thutmose. It was discovered in Amarna, Egypt in 1912 by a German archaeological team led by Ludwig Borchardt. Many art historians believe the bust to be a 3D sketch or model that may have been for other representations of Nefertiti, a closer inspection of the bust had revealed that the bust was not just painted limestone, but limestone that is covered in a…