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    1) What are the characteristics of Late Gothic painting‚ as represented by Duccio‚ Cimabue‚ and Giotto? Describe at least 3 works‚ including artist‚ approximate dates‚ subject‚ medium‚ style‚ location‚ etc. In what ways was Giotto groundbreaking? Late Gothic painting is best characterized by a movement away from the Byzantine style‚ including a use of depth and a focus on Naturalism‚ or a use of subjects that were not based in the spiritual world. Widely regarded as one of the forefathers of

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    Most of the works of art during the Renaissance had strong religious connections and were done for the church with the intent that it would reside in the church. When we think of this period in art we most often think of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel. While Raphael’s Sistine Madonna is in oil‚ it was done on a flax covered wall in the Benedictine monastery church and was not permanent. The full painting‚ The Sistine Madonna‚ shows Mary holding the baby Jesus‚ sans halo‚ with two Saints. The cherubs

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    present-day battle for control. Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon must join forces with scientist Vittoria Vetra in a frantic race to save the Vatican from a powerful bomb which threatens to destroy it and the cardinals who have gathered within the Sistine Chapel to elect the next Pope. Their journey takes them across Rome and into cathedrals‚ secret archives and the Illuminati lair. Along the way‚ they uncover many secrets‚ including who is responsible for the threat to the Vatican. In the end‚ they save

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    Out of all the paintings we could choose from‚ I have decided to write about Michelangelo Bounarroti’s Guidizio Universale. It caught my eye because I have read a lot about The Last Judgment and how it would look like when it happens. Another part of the painting that caught my eye is how the people and other objects are falling and are afloat in mid sky blue air. The painting is representational for the fact that it is representing the human kind from the dammed and the saved. In the center of the

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    Michelangelo Biography

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    the Creation of the Flood. Other scenes show the ancestry of Christ‚ with moments in Bible history‚ and the Hebrew prophets and Pagan gods hoping for good the world was to become. It was majestic in every detail. More than 20 years after the Sistine Chapel was finished he began his huge fresco The Last Judgement. Painting and Sculpting weren’t the only things Michelangelo was good at‚ he had many great talents. When Florence was in danger of attack‚ he super intended fortification. He also wrote

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    renaissance art. His first large-scale sculpture was Bacchus. Around the same year of 1498‚ Michelangelo did the marble Pieta‚ which is the only work he ever signed. In 1536‚ Michelangelo started the Last Judgment for the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo was born on March 6‚ 1975 in Caprese Italy. Instead of going to school‚ Michelangelo would go and watch the painters at nearby churches and he would draw what he saw. Michelangelo’s father then realized his son had no interest in the

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    Biography of Michelangelo

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    Michelangelo Buonarrati Alex Moir/3-15-00 Per.3/Mr. Mikulec The typical stereotype of artists of the past‚ is a lonely‚ tormented outsider‚ who creates his art through his pain and anguish. Well Michelangelo was just that. In fact the stereotype is modeled after him. He was an unsociable loner who didn’t have many friends‚ lovers‚ or even assistants to help him. His temper and rudeness drove others away from him and kept him lonely. However‚ even though he was not the most likeable or

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    greatest most extraordinarily decorated rooms in the Vatican‚ the name of the room was the Stanza della Segnatura.” The school of Athens” was painted by Raphael between 1508 and 1511‚ and it was right around the time Michelangelo was painting the 16th chapel. One of the things that makes this painting so special is that “The School of Athens” represents all the greatest mathematicians‚ philosophers and scientists from classical antiquity gathered together sharing their ideas and learning from each other

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    None of Michelangelo’s other works ever won him quite the same renown as his fresco in the Sistine Chapel‚ a building now virtually synonymous with his name. Almost immediately after Michelangelo unveiled it in 1512‚ the fresco became like an academy for artists‚ who had since long been using the Sistine Chapel as storehouse of ideas. They treated works of Michelangelo as some kind of a portfolio through which they concocted new ideas. The prestigious style of buon fresco generated intense interest

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