Peter Paul Rubens was born in 1577 within a quaint German town called Siegen. Peter Paul Rubens was known as a Flemish artist and lived a very successful life in doing so. Peter led a wealthy life‚ having been raised by a family of spice merchants. His father‚ Jan Rubens was responsible for much of Peter’s success since birth. Peter’s father Jan‚ was a successful lawyer in Antwerp‚ Belgium‚ who decided to leave the city in effort to escape the religious war. Peter’s life had unexpectedly changed
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The Changing Role and Status of the Artist 1300 – 1600 To explore the changing role and status of the artist during the period 1300 – 1600 we have first to look at the period of time prior to this. For a thousand years before‚ Rome had ruled most of Europe‚ bringing new developments in technology‚ education and government‚ but after Rome fell to invaders in 542 CE‚ Western Europe became stagnant‚ a period we now term as the Middle Ages. Ordinary people did not venture far from their hamlets
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The role of King Francis I in French Renaissance art By the time of France’s King Francis I’s reign‚ patronising arts had become more of an obligation than just a sign of erudition or generosity. Patronage had developed into a type of political behaviour and a way of documenting. In 1515‚ when King Francis I ascended the throne of France‚ the local Renaissance culture was almost at a standstill‚ since Gothic art originated from France and left a grandiose mark on it. The French did not want to let
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Jean-Antoine Watteau. Watteau undoubtedly mapped the path of new artistic advancements in France. He was a former costume designer of a small‚ provincial town that evolved into a master of the fêtes galantes genre painting. He became pupil to the theatrical painter Claude Gillot and eventual member of the prestigious Académie. Consequently‚ it should come
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one of his sonnets‚ refers to two famous contemporaries in a striking way; he calls the Italian poet Marino “a great painter for the ears” and the Flemish painter Rubens “a great poet for the eyes”. Six hundred year and 6000 miles away‚ a similar concept occurs in a parallel situation. The Chinese poet Su Shi‚ in one of his poems‚ praises two men‚ one a poet and the other a painter: “Tu Fu’s poems are figureless paintings‚ Han Kan’s paintings are wordless poems. In both poems‚ a very special relationship
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statue of David ‚ after the heroic biblical king. Rafael: Were an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur Sofonsiba: Italian Renaissance painter born in Cremona. She received a well-rounded education that included the fine arts and her apprenticeship with local painters set a precedent for women to be accepted as students of art. Castiglione:
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reference to the question “In what ways does Francois Clouet’s Lady in Her Bath painting reflect the ideology and culture of the Renaissance Era?” can be dated back to 1516 when his father‚ Jean Clouet was appointed painter to the court of Francis I. Jean became the chief court painter in 1523‚ and was a position he held until his death in 1541. Jean’s claim to fame was his use of chalk‚ in the hues of red‚ white‚ and black. One of Jean’s more interesting paintings is in Paris‚ and is a nearly life
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Francisco de Goya was born in Fuendetodos‚ Spain on March 30‚ 1746. His dad was a painter‚ and his mom came from a noble family. Theres not a lot of information about his childhood. He went to school in Zaragoza at the Escuelas Pias. He started his actual art education when he was 14‚ when he was chosen to be an apprentice to Jose Luzan. Who was a talented but little known painter. Francisco spent 4 years apprenticing with Jose Luzan. Francisco went to Madrid in 1763 because he hoped to
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Baroque is a style in which painters‚ sculptors‚ and architects rummaged emotion‚ movement‚ and variety in their works‚ there are three different types of Baroque art : Baroque that was primarily associated with the religious tensions within Western Christianity: division on Roman Catholicism and Protestantism‚ Baroque that use revolutionary technique of dramatic‚ selective illumination of figures out of deep shadow‚ and Baroque that was developed mainly in Flemish countries emphasis realism of
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Gregorian Chant‚ monophonic‚ or unison‚ liturgical music of the Roman Catholic Church‚ used to accompany the text of mass and the canonical hours‚ or divine office. Gregorian chant is named after St. Gregory I‚ during whose papacy (590-604) it was collected and codified. Charlemagne‚ king of the Franks (768-814)‚ imposed Gregorian chant on his kingdom‚where another liturgical tradition the Gallican chant was in common use. During the 8th and 9th centuries‚ a process of assimilation took place between
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