Uffizi

Venus’ body doesn’t look like a human bodily figure and it’s not supposed to. Her body wasn’t supposed to be exactly the same as the human body, it was supposed to be structural and flow within each other. For example her shoulders run down into her arms in an unbroken stream of movement like her floating hair. It looks like she’s standing but she is supposedly floating on top of the shell. Her body is very in proportionate with her elongated neck and torso. She stands in a classical stance that…

royal cousin Lorenzo the Magnificent ("La Primavera 1"). The painting is also called the Primavera which means "spring" in Italian (renaissanceart.org 1). It is believed to have been painted between 1477-1482, and it is currently displayed at the Uffizi Museum in Florence, Italy ("La Primavera"…

In Italy the monuments, statues, and even the houses on the corners scream of past lives and stories, the raw emotions and struggles of times before us. Italy has the mindset or at least the outward appearance of seeming to be steeped in the arts, but is this really the case? Do all the Italians care about the Fine Arts? After having lived with and among them for three weeks, it would be safe to say that there are those who do in fact revel in the arts and fully enjoy being surrounded by them,…

Mycenaean Greece. This conflict went on for about 10 years. What caused this war against the Spartans and the Trojans? According to Historylink101, “the cause of the Trojan war can be traced all the way back to the courtship of Helen”. (Bandinelli, Uffizi, Florence). Helen the Queen of Sparta was kidnapped by the Trojan Prince whose name was Paris took her to the kingdom of Troy. “Paris (also known as Alexandros) and taken as his prize for choosing Aphrodite as the most beautiful goddess in a…

gladiatorial museum, the Pantheon, a landmark Roman Church with historic tombs, Florence Cathedral, Mount Vesuvius, Amalfi coast, the Roman Forum, St, Peter's Basilica, the largest basilica of Christianity, Saint Mark’s Basilica, Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Uffizi Gallery, an art museum, Vatican Museums, Doge’s Palace, Sistine Chapel, the Grand Canal, Lake Como, Trevi Fountain, Piazza San Marco, The leaning tower of Pisa, Milan Cathedral and many many…

Leonardo was already very famous then and his works were in huge demand; that’s the era when the British royal family bought his greatest drawings. They also had very few ways of authenticating art so long ago. A 17th-century painting of Medusa in the Uffizi was mistaken for a Leonardo until modern times. Whenever and by whoever it was forged, La Bella Principessa is not a Leonardo. I honestly don’t know how anyone who loves his art could make that mistake. There is a deadness to this woman’s…

The Renaissance is a period from the 14th-17th century. Renaissance means “new birth”. It began as a cultural movement in Italy, which then spread to the rest of Europe. The Renaissance was a time of beauty and artwork. The main features of Renaissance painting and sculpture reflect a desire to explore and portray the real world. Some famous artists included Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo. About Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) was born in Anchiano, Tuscany. Da Vinci had…

Artist Chosen/About Him The artist I chose to research is Raphael Sanzio. He was born on March 28, 1483. In his early life his mother Màgia died (in 1491) and his father died in 1494. Orphaned at the age of 11 he went to live with his Uncle Bartolomeo who was a priest and he engaged quite often in litigation with the boy’s stepmother. Raphael stayed with his stepmother rather than continuing to live with his uncle. From a young age he had shown great skill working with his father before his…

Artemisia Gentileschi piece titled Judith decapitating Holofernes (C. 1620), is a 6’63/8’’x 5’34/3’’ painting displayed at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. Gentileschi’s sensational painting, oil on a canvas which gives a chill at its glance portrays Virtue and Violence, a symbolic justice for a powerful female protagonist and other victims. Artemisia Gentileschi uses value, color, line and emphasis to capture the horrific scene and an evocative interpretation to vividly draw viewer’s…

Jan Miense Molenaer The Dentist, 1629 Oil on Panel Jan Miense Molenaer was born in 1610 in Haarlem, Netherlands ("Jan Miense Molenaer: Biography Virtual Uffizi"). He was a genre Dutch painter in what is known as the Dutch Golden Age. During this time the eighty’s year war raged and the Dutch won their independence from Spain ("History of Dutch Golden Age - Holland.com"). With this came a changing of the era. New territory was being charted, trade by the east-India company thrived and war heroes…