are complementary colors) * Probably got the pose/essence of the painting from Courier * Worm’s eye perspective (We are viewing from below) Bronzino – Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence * C. 1570 * Original Context: Wall in San Lerenzo (Medici sponsored church) * Materials: fresco * Décor (San Lerenzo = Saint Lawrence) * Subject matter: Chaos‚ title explains it all; St. Lawrence was literally burned on a grill * Emulated source/icon: Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel * Unusual
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The Four Davids David‚ who was destined to be the second king of Israel‚ destroyed the Philistine giant Goliath with stone and a sling. Donatello‚ Verrocchio‚ Michelangelo‚ and Bernini each designed a sculpture of David. However‚ the sculptures are drastically different from one another. Each one is unique in its own certain way. Donatello‚ whose David was the first life-size nude statue since Classical times‚ struck a balance between Classicism and the realism by presenting a very real image of
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The Baroque Era Rebecca Mozingo Mr. Craton Period 8 The Baroque Era was a period for artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear and easily interpreted detail to produce drama‚ tension‚ exuberance and grandeur in sculpture‚ painting‚ architecture‚ literature and dance and music. It started around 1600 in Rome‚ Italy and spread to most of Europe and ended around the 1750’s. The Baroque era was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church‚ which had decided at the time of the Council of Trent
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paintings everywhere • Lamentation‚ commisoned‚ wht type of organization? o Perspective‚ shows emotion‚ pastel • Duccio o The Maesta Siena Cathedral (1300) o Tempera on panel‚ altar piece. A part of Santa Maria Novella in florence‚ include patron saints of city. o Betrayal of Jesus (1300) • Derived from byzantine because of the incorporation of gold leaf. Sienese art from Siena. This painting is made in tempera. This piece can be described as proto- renaissance. Simone marticelli
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Baroque Art in Europe and North America Throughout this research paper the topic is going to be along the lines of the Baroque Art in Europe and North America‚ which comes from chapter nineteen of our Art History book. The main purpose is to review major ideas and principles in this chapter by writing an analysis of certain points that were highlighted. For example‚ certain techniques that were used to define the Baroque Art‚ major sculptures‚ architectures‚ and paintings‚ and also just some
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congregations. Moderno chose to extend the nave‚ transforming the building into the Latin cross plan; causing it to resemble the Old St. Peter’s. He also gave the building a new façade‚ completing the current basilica. Gianlorenzo Bernini made the final addition to the structure. Bernini worked on statues for the decoration of the dome until 1657 when he began his construction of the Piazza San Pietro‚ or‚ St. Peter’s Square. Designed to exemplify the magnificence of St. Peter’s Basilica‚ this tremendous
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The Age of Reformation The Age of Reformation - religious revolution in Western Europe in the 16th cent. Beginning as a reform movement within the Roman Catholic Church‚ the Reformation ultimately led to freedom of dissent. The preparation for the movement was long and there had been earlier calls for reform‚ e.g.‚ by John WYCLIF and John HUSS. Desire for change within the church was increased by the RENAISSANCE‚ with its study of ancient texts and emphasis on the individual. Other factors
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Quotes: 1. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties... – hamlet 2. Man is born free‚ yet everywhere he is in chains. Rousseau 3. Modern society is rotten even at its roots. Rouseeau 4. Get back to Nature … Noble Savage .. SOCIAL CONTRACT - rouseeau 5. Reason is supreme . Human reason can solve every problem facing humankind. - descartes 6. A work of art is a public dream – frued – Oedipus complex 7. We live in an ordered‚ rational‚ understandable
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Vespasian | Parthenon‚ Colosseum‚ Pantheon | Early Christian and Medieval | Medieval architecture is a term used to represent various forms of architecture popular in Medieval Europe. | Pietro Baseggio‚Bernard de Soissons‚Diogo de Boitaca | Abbey of Saint-Denis‚ Salisbury Cathedral‚ Cologne Cathedral | Romanesque | Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of Medieval Europe‚ characterized by semi-circular arches‚ and evolving into the Gothic style‚ characterized by pointed arches‚ beginning
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superior skill coupled with ability and attention to detail‚ that produces a piece that is more than just pretty‚ or full of symbolic meaning. The sculpture that I choose is a good example of craftsmanship. An artist by the name of Gian Lorenzo Bernini created the sculpture Bacchanal: Faun Teased by Children in the early seventeenth century when he was eighteen years old; it was created of marble and is a little over four feet high. While people could possibly find symbolic meaning in each part
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