significant people happen to be Vermeer and Caravaggio. Vermeer was a Dutch painter‚ born on October 31‚ 1632‚ in Delft‚ Netherlands. Not much is known about him as he was only made famous a long time after his death. What is known about him is that he lived a peaceful home life with his wife‚ Catharina
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viewers throughout the centuries. By looking at the art of the following three artists‚ Artemisia Gentileschi‚ Pablo Picasso and Shepard Fairey‚ I will show that although each had different motives and were from different eras‚ they each used their work to try and influence the people of their time. Artemisia Gentileschi was born in Rome in 1593‚ and was a daughter of a well know artist Orazio Gentileschi. When she was seventeen she was raped by an art teacher‚ whom her father asked to train her‚
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The Baroque Period was the age of reason when minds and imaginations opened up new worlds of scientific knowledge as well as artistic creativity. (Fleming‚ 75) The Baroque era was a period of opulence and magnificence that gave off a powerful awe inspiring style that was full of flamboyant concepts and overall dramatic quality. From Venice‚ as well as from Rome and the centers where international mannerism flourished‚ the roads to Baroque art fanned out in all directions. The style of Baroque art
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Dutch artist‚ Gerrit Dou‚ started painting “A Dentist by Candlelight” in 1660 and completed it in 1665. The medium of this art is oil on an oak panel. While the painting is small in size‚ the imagery is much larger. The painting itself measures just a little over fourteen inches by ten inches. The brush strokes are soft and airy‚ as if it was painted on silk. Most of the colors used are dark‚ except for the gold and yellow tones that are used to make the center of the image seem to glow. In fact
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phenomenally graphic and realistic art‚ much of it being gruesome and bloody toned. Art is always an interesting record of humans perceptions of what is happening around them. For example‚ I enjoyed reading about Michaelangelo Merisi‚ better known as‚ Caravaggio who was at the forefront of the painting world in the seventeenth century. He typically paints religious inspired pieces which reflects he was religious himself and in his beliefs‚ as well as living in a religious world. His painting The crucifixion
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gender stereotype‚ female narcissism‚ lurks behind the suggestion that the young Artemisia‚ locked in a claustrophobic Roman household‚ became obsessed with her own features and painted them repeatedly.” page 12 The Artemisia Files: Artemisia Gentileschi for Feminists and Other Thinking edited by Mieke Bal Mary D Garrard Artemisia’s Hand The "Kearsarge" at Boulogne Édouard Manet 1864 Oil on Canvas 32 1/8 x 39 3/8 in. Gallery 810 During the Civil War‚ a corvette of the United States Navy
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The Role of a Woman During the Renaissance‚ 1300 to 1600‚ the role for women of the upper and lower classes were very straightforward. Women had limited participation in the world to a great extent in this time because the men were the primary factors. For example‚ men were the ones who got a education‚ had little to no repercussions for crimes and had great jobs. Women had the dos and don’ts of the Renaissance; do have a moral home‚ don’t shame your husband or family in anyway. Some people might
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local saint of Syracuse‚ who had been denounced as a Christian by her former suitor and had died in 304 from the tortures inflicted by local pagan authorities. Caravaggio may have worked in haste to produce a picture before the feast of Saint Lucy on 13 December. Originally‚ Saint Lucy’s head was severed from her body but later Caravaggio joined it and left just a slit in the front of her neck - perhaps recalling Saint Cecilia‚ whose still-intact body with a gash in the nape of the neck had been
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still life and portraitures. Because of their constrained independence‚ they were excluded from public commissions of the times that centered on religious frescos in churches or public buildings. One of the accomplished women artist was Artemisia Gentileschi‚ the daughter of a well-known artist Orazio known for his
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and was 17 at the time of composition‚ fitting into the narrative of her first signed work. Furthermore‚ there was dispute on the date of the work being 1610 because it was still too early for such a skill level and the date should be 1619 (Bissell‚ 1968)‚ but Ann Sutherland Harris confirmed the date as 1610. Moreover‚ there is no consensus on the level of involvement of either Artemisia or Orazio ideologically or on the canvas. In his later work‚ Bissell proposes that Orazio had the idea in
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