By: Meagan McConlogue
Italian Renaissance
• The Last Judgement.
– Painted by Michelangelo
– depicts the second coming of Christ and his own imagination. – depicts the various saints
Northern Renaissance
• Holy Family with St. Catherine and St. Barbara
– Religious painting
– Made of oil on a wood canvas
– Depicts saints and the holy family. American
• Virgin of the Rosary of Guápulo
– said to represent a miracleworking cult figure in a native parish in Guápulo on the outskirts of Quito.
– Oil on canvas
– Shows a dressed statue of the
Virgin of the Rosary
Russian
• Saint Basil's Cathedral
– marks the geometric center of Moscow.
– was the city's tallest building until the completion of the
Ivan the Great Bell Tower in
1600.
– Built on orders from Ivan the Terrible
Ottoman
• "Star Ushak" carpet
– Made of wool
– influenced by northwest
Persian
– The blue medallions on the red ground are the traditional colors of these carpets. Mughal
• Nilgai (blue bull): Leaf
– Ink, watercolor, and gold on paper – As Jahangir wrote in his diary, his great-grandfather Babur had only described what he saw, while he himself also ordered drawings to be made of the things he wrote about
– Shows the texture of the creature's fur bone, horn, and flesh, as well as its gentle spirit Ming China
• Welcoming Spring
– Embroidery on silk gauze
– Shows one boy rounding up sheep and goats while another leads a sheep caparisoned for riding, in a landscape with rocks, stream, and sky
– expresses the connection with the beginning of spring African
• Ewost'atéwos and Eight Disciples
– Wood, tampera
– a tribute to the revered Ethiopian visionary Ewost'atéwos
– The eight acolytes surrounding
Ewost'atéwos are depicted to underscore their devotion and allegiance. Conclusion
During the first global age civilizations made many developments in art. Some art depicted religion and nature while others did not. Some even had secular styles of art.
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