The Annunciation is a particularly good showpiece for van Eyck’s obsession with the texture of fabrics: both the Virgin Mary and Gabriel are swathed in lavish robes that fold and hang with surreal‚ wholly gratuitous complexity. Van Eyck painted clothes‚ a critic once observed‚ the way other artists paint mountain ranges. The problem is‚ once you get past the first wash of amazement the painting becomes reticent and impersonal. The Annunciation is one of the most frequently painted subjects in Christian
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formal analysis‚ treating Peter Paul Rubens’ 1612 masterpiece‚ Massacre of the Innocents. The oil painting stands at approximately 150 x 200 cm‚ a size offering the viewer a window-like gaze into a historical scene of twisted‚ bloody carnage. Formally‚ there is much cohesion with the overall disastrous theme of human chaos and disorder. On a compositional whole‚ the anguish and psychological suffering compliments scattered lighting‚ vivid color‚ and clustered space. The painting is a good example of how
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art is a seascape painting‚ painted with oil and painted on canvas. The artist was Peter Monamy (1681-1749). The painting portrays three ships stuck in a storm. There is a main ship‚ a ship in the background‚ as well as‚ another ship behind that. Through research it is not known if the artist was depicting a certain event in time‚ but some say it was a depiction of “the great gale of 1703” or when Sir Cloudisley Shovell’s fleet was stuck in a storm in 1707. I chose this painting because it depicted
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Commentary Piece on Art in the Renaissance Breathtaking‚ inspiring and artistically engaging‚ “Spectacular Rubens: the Triumph of the Eucharist‚” a new exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum‚ features the work of master artist Peter Paul Rubens told in both elaborate oil sketches and original tapestries woven in the early 1620s for a Franciscan convent in Spain. It’s the largest number of works for the Eucharist series assembled in more than half a century and the first time these tapestries have
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impressionists. A most notable work of art from the tour was “The Annunciation” by Master of the Retable of the Reyes Católicos. This oil on wood panel painting was created in the late 1500s‚ during the High Renaissance period of the art historical cannon. It portrays the biblical event found in the Gospel of Luke in which the archangel Gabriel announces to Mary that she is pregnant with Jesus‚ the son of God. “The Annunciation” is a religious painting and is an example of the many great works of art from the
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When I think of works of art I think about the painting in art museum that averages like me can’t do. Art like the Annunciation is my example of what fine art is.My first response to a painting is mainly visual what interests me most is the strong difference‚ color‚ and smoothness not in that order though. That attracts me draws me in‚ so to speak‚ my next reaction really depends on the style of the work. If it’s a convincing‚ realistic work‚ I usually look for an expressive response only if it’s
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In your own words‚ explain how Donatello has told the story of The Annunciation in sculpture and why contemporaries were so impressed with his achievement. Donatello is considered to be one of the most influential artists of the 15th century. A member of the innovative group of painters‚ architects and sculptors that revolutionised art in Florence at the beginning of the 15th century‚ he succeeded in becoming perhaps the most successful in his field due to his understanding of the
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The Annunciation in Santa Croce is the first work to reflect Donatello’s new tendencies following his stay in Rome. "It was put near the altar of the Cavalcanti Chapel. For this he made an ornament in the grotesque style‚ with a base of varied and intertwined work‚ surmounted by a quartercircle‚ and with six putti; these garlanded putti have their arms round each other as if they are afraid of the height and are trying to steady themselves. Donatello’s ingenuity and skill are specially apparent
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Da Vinci Last Supper is a very powerful work of art. This Biblical painting is important because it depicts the sequence of events before is Jesus’s crucified. The Last Supper depicts Jesus in the center of a dinner table with his twelve disciples. In the Bible this dinner actually took place as this was Jesus “Last Supper” according to the Holy Bible. At this supper Jesus announces that one of his disciples will betray him. This this piece if art over time has become very controversial. In the Last
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Leonardo Da Vinci was a man extremely ahead of his time‚ many of his remarkable studies and inventions still influence us today. He was a scientist‚ an inventor‚ a musician‚ and one of the world’s most famous painters. Leonardo had observed and studied all of nature‚ these observations inspired him to mimic nature and design the most remarkable inventions. Most of his inventions were ideas scribbled down‚ but even from those scribbled notes we are able to gather information to help improve inventions
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