Sir Peter Paul Rubens was born on June 28th 1577 in the town of Siegen in Westphalia (now Germany). “He is one of seven children of a wealthy lawyer. Juan Rubens and while his mother Maria Pypelincks was cultured and educated & . Rubens father was a legal adviser and lover to Anna of Saxony who was the wife of William I of Orange. William I was the main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish. Peter Paul Rubens father was imprisoned for the affair in 1570 however, he was released…
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,…
For my Experience paper I choose to go to the Art Institute of Chicago. Our adventure began when my family and I got in the car and drove to the Art Institute of Chicago. When, we got there we saw the amazing building and the big Lion statue. When I got there I saw the things that were around the building. I was so impress that the building had a lot of details around it. It had images and writing in the top of the like “Anno Domini” which means The year of the lord. That, name just gives us…
Caravaggio and Vermeer One of the most influential painters during the sixteenth century, Michelangelo Merisi, mastered his view of light and dark to build on his artistic ability. Michelangelo Merisi, otherwise known as Caravaggio, was an artist based off of revolutionary paintings and public scandal, started his career in Rome in 1593 (Sayre 701). Equivalent to most musical composers during the Baroque era, Caravaggio was supported by a patron. To start his career as an artist, Caravaggio…
Anne Hollander discusses the depiction of cloth by 16th century Italian artists. Explaining that artists used clothing and drapery as an expressive means and not necessarily to portray the actual way that cloth lay and formed folds against the body, Hollander introduces early portraits of the century. Discussing the artwork Hans Holbein the Younger’s Henry XII (c. 1537) and Titian’s La Bella (1536), Hollander points out the great attention to detail of the fabrics worn by the sitter, the trend…
piece of work was because out of all the books I had gone through pertaining to the Northern Renaissance period, this one jumped out at me the most. The incredible attention to detail and the intrigue of possible symbolic meaning behind it drew me towards wanting to learn more about it. Andrea Mantegna became well known for his attention to detail and linear sharpness of his art during the Northern Renaissance period, and he stands out for his devotion to classical antiquity which was…
humanity. As new discoveries are made, perceptions are altered, and people are left with a choice to either accept societal transformations, or stand against them. Looking back, this trend can be seen in virtually every aspect of history. During the Renaissance, people either accepted the new secularist views or rejected them in favor of the church, and amid the Scientific Revolution, people either supported new discoveries, or disregarded them because they falsified their interpretation of the…
The motivation that led to the discovery of the famous Brunelleschi Dome, during the renaissance time, all started when the people of Florence were tired of having a giant hole in their cathedral. An award went out to whoever could figure out how to make a dome large enough to fit. This cathedral was supposed to be a sign that Florence was better than its neighboring cities. Some questions that had to be asked were, “How do we make a dome large enough to fit?” and “How do we get all the material…
Ser Piero da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in the republic of Florence, Italy and died on May 2, 1519. Leonardo da Vinci was, according to Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia Leonardo was “ one of the great masters of the High Renaissance (see Renaissance Art and Architecture), celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist” (Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia).…
was a byproduct of a special period in human history: the Renaissance. Including the influential invention of the flushing toilet, following the war-stricken period of Medieval Europe, the Renaissance was a time of great-accelerated change that gave rise to new, previously unexplored concepts, such as alchemy and anatomy, and artistic innovation. Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper, a piece of art dating back to the High Italian Renaissance, was an especially notable piece from this period.…