Scrovegni Chapel

Personification, a human representation of an idea , features prominently in the dado frescoes (painted by the Giotto workshop) of the Scrovegni Chapel. In the chapel, The Last Judgement fresco lies above the exit depicting the redeemed saints on Christ’s left and the damned souls on Christ’s right. Corresponding to the two groups are frescoes depicting personifications of seven virtues on the left wall and of seven vices on the right wall. The individual frescoes include enough detail to characterize a vice or virtue. Moreover, each fresco faces its opposite across the room, presenting an antithetical personification of virtues and vices. Antithesis is the opposition of ideas using similar composition , or, more rightly, a method of definition…

revolutionary artist during the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance era (c. 1300-1500). However, each artist had incredibly different styles and utilized different mediums that they would later become known for. Giotto lived and worked in Florence during a period when religious subjects and styles had been laid down by centuries of tradition. As the first artist to depict human emotion, his influence put Western art on a path to the Renaissance. Jan van Eyck was one of the first Flemish artist to…

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…

cousins live in Chowchilla also they did not attend the church. So, I did not have them to hang out with. I believe one of the reasons the church meant so much to me is because the influence my grandpa had on it. As the pastor, he was loved by all of the people that attended the church and even those who had never been in a church in their life. Even now when we go to the store or post office in our town people will address him as Pastor Sabin. I do not recognize half of them but, it is nice…

of the High Renaissance was centered on Rome. After Rome’s population dwindled, due to the Black Death, the city became one of ruins and the papacy abandoned it in the early 14th century. The papacy returned by the beginning of the 15th century. The pope at the time, Martin V, used the arts as a way to build Rome back to its former glory. In the end of the fifteenth century, the Medici family no longer dominated the city Florence. So, many of their artists were able to be recruited to Rome…

Sir John Isaac Thornycroft (1843-1928) was a British Naval architect, engineer, and founder of the shipbuilding institution, John I Thornycroft & Company Limited. He is noted for having partially designed and built the first Royal Naval torpedo boat as well as designing and improving upon the machinery involved in this class of ship. Thornycroft is also credited with modifying the hull and propeller designs of naval ships as well as designing ship stabilizers. In particular Thornycroft's…

The beginning of a legend Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simomi was born on March 6, 1475, and Caprice Italy, we know him as Michelangelo’s father was a magistrate, was an infant’s family moved to Florence. When Michelangelo’s mother passed away this father is no longer it will take care of him and he went to live with stonecutter and he joked, “With my wet-nurse’s milk, I sucked in the hammer and chisels I use for my statues” (Bio.com ) Michelangelo didn’t care much for school it was…

art of Fresco painting. Therefore, Michelangelo had the opportunity to enter the garden workshop of the powerful Lorenzo di Medici. Subsequently, Michelangelo found grounding in the art of sculpture through Bertoldo di Giovanni, who had been a pupil of Donatello. Michelangelo’s experiences in fields of art, include the talents of being a sculptor, a painter, an architect, and a poet. Michelangelo exhibited proficiency in each of these fields of art. The insight and artistic techniques…

meters. The statue is made of marble, and it is a standing body of a naked man. Back then in the renaissance, the naked body was viewed as art, beauty, and something extraordinary. Things have nowadays changed, it has almost become the opposite. A nude body is now looked at as inappropriate and something of low standards. The astonishing statue of Michelangelo is placed in the public square of Florence, when it is supposed to be positioned along the roofline of the east with the other prophet…

Ever since, his life time accomplishments have come from serving the Medici family. The two art works that people think of when they hear the name Michelangelo would be the Sculpture David and the Sistine Chapel roof. However, something that goes by unrecognised a lot is the buildings that Michelangelo constructed. There were many buildings that Michelangelo built or designed but the most popular and known buildings were the Medici Chapel and the Laurentian Library. The Medici Chapel was…