1. Italian Renaissance - earliest form of the general European Renaissance‚ a period of great cultural change and achievement that began in Italy. 2. Jacob Burkhart - historian of art and culture‚ and an influential figure in the historiography of each field 3. Oligarchies – small group that ruled a city and its surrounding countryside 4. Condotierri - the mercenary soldier leaders (warlords) of the professional‚ military free companies contracted by the Italian city-states and the Papacy from
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Above‚ So Below‚ Rudy Rucker exquisitely used the very little-known historical facts and paintings left behind by the renown painter‚ Peter Bruegel‚ to create a lasting depiction of this Flemish painter and his works of art. Peter Bruegel was a Flemish painter who existed during the 16th century of Europe‚ near the end of the Renaissance era. Bruegel was a successful painter in the subjects regarding his surrounding landscapes and peasant life styles‚ and had two sons. Despite the fact that these
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Rosie Linde Art History‚ Professor Zervigon; Recitation‚ Gianna Loscerbo 1:082:106:14 Edwin Panofsky‚ “Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait‚” The Burlington Magazine 64 (1934): 117-127 Arnolfini Wedding Portrait Controversy Erwin Panofsky was a prominent art historian of the twentieth century. He also was one of the foremost proponents of iconography‚ and attributed symbolic meaning to the various elements of the Arnolfini scene. He attributed the scene to be a document of the marriage
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of religious art. The artist that made this painting‚ Albert Bouts‚ is a specialized painter that used oil on panels. The painting was completed in the 1480s and is uses the medium of oil on wood‚ this painting has the appearance of a smooth canvas. The artist sets the scene in a room of chapel with décor and furnishings
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time between the 1400’s and the 1700’s‚ where new views of art and science were created. There were many important figures in this time period. Artists contributed a lot of information to the Renaissance in their art. Among these great artists was a Flemish artist by the name of Pieter Bruegel. Bruegel was significant to the Renaissance era because of his remarkable paintings that showed everyday life scenes during the Renaissance period in Europe. EARLY LIFE Bruegel‘s time was much different than
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court position he could hold. Diego Velazquez was born in Seville‚ Spain. In the childhood‚ he already showed his talent in art and was sent to learn more from Francisco Herrera‚ a great painter at that time. However‚
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Raes I (Flemish‚ 1574–1651)‚ Hans Vervoert (Flemish‚ active 1625)‚ and Jacob Fobert (Flemish‚ active 1625) after designs by Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish‚ 1577–1640). The other version of The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek‚ about 1625-28‚ Peter Paul Rubens‚ oil on panel. Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art‚ Washington‚ D.C.‚ gift of Syma Busiel‚ 1958. Unframed: 65 x 67.6 cm and Framed: 84.7 x 85.2 x 5 cm. Peter Paul Rubens was born in 1577 and died in 1640. Rubens was a Flemish diplomat
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Jan Van Eyck (before c. 1390 – 9 July 1441) was a Flemish/Netherlandish painter active in Bruges‚ who was born in Maaseik‚ Holland. He took employment in the Hague as painter and Valet de chambre with John III the Pitiless‚ ruler of Holland and Hainaut in the Hague around 1422‚ when he was already a master painter with workshop assistants.Van Eyck painted both secular and religious subject matter‚ including altarpieces‚ single panel religious figures and commissioned portraits. And he was highly
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The painter is a Flemish artist of the Early Renaissance Jan van Eyck. He was official court painter The Duke of Burgundy Philip the Good between 1425 to 1441 1. At that time Van Eyck painted for lords‚ sovereigns‚ wealthy and rich social classes of Bruges‚ Ghent‚ Antwerp and Brussels‚ the incredible wealthy Flemish towns. The abundance of those towns was‚ thusly‚ made conceivable by the flood of cash‚ exchange‚ and taste‚ by Italian brokers‚ Burgundian and Bavarian gentry‚ dealers‚ guests‚merchants
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the world and of man" in the 16th century. The great Swiss historian Jakob Burckhardt‚ in his classic The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)‚ expanded on Michelet’s conception. Defining the Renaissance as the period between the Italian painters Giotto and Michelangelo‚ Burckhardt characterized the epoch as nothing less than the birth of modern humanity and consciousness after a long period of decay. Modern scholars have exploded the myth that the Middle Ages were dark and dormant. The thousand
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