painting was how defined and straight the lines are. There are lines everywhere in this painting. I really like this painting because it’s abstract but not in a way most people would define abstract as. Metaphysical Interior with Bisquits was painted by Giorgio De Chirico in 1916. It was also painted with oil onto a canvas. These two paintings are very similar to each other but also contrast in elements as well. As I said before‚ there are lines everywhere in Classic Landscape. Sheeler uses lines to make
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Giorgio Morandi was born in Bologna‚ Italy on July 20th‚ 1890; to Andrea and Maria Maccaferri. Out of five children‚ he was the eldest. In 1906‚ he enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti and his natural artistic gifts were quickly discovered by the Morandi family. On the 14th of October 1907‚ the seventeen-year-old Giorgio enrolled in a preparatory course at the Accademia and he finished it with flying colours.Due to his special talents‚ he was admitted to the second year of the foundation course
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by Filippino Lippi‚ Botticelli‚ and Raffaellino del Garbo. the framework was made by Giorgio Vasari after 1524. Botticelli‚ the most eminent one of the three‚ is best known for The Birth of Venus. He was very skilled at portraiture. His apprentice‚ Filippino Lippi worked with Botticelli on this piece of art. The Libro de’ Disegni‚ Italian for Book of Drawings‚ is a compilation of drawings collected by Giorgio Vasari. There were approximately 526 drawings‚ of which 162 are in the Louvre‚ 83 in the Stockholm
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3‚ 2014 Professor McClure INSERT INTERESTING TITLE HERE Widely known as the first great art historian‚ in his Lives of the Artists‚ Giorgio Vasari goes into great detail on the lives of many famous Renaissance artists‚ including Lorenzo Ghiberti‚ Donatello‚ and Leonardo da Vinci. In his biographies of these artists‚ one of the most interesting ideas that Vasari explores is the relationship between the artists and their patrons. Because artists needed to earn a living‚ they relied on commissions
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of nature‚ or the attempt to generalize from realistic portrayal to an ideal form. "(Spielvogel‚ 2009) Leonardo exhibited a period of the Renaissance where artist tried to make a realistic portrayal to an ideal portrayal. A description given by Giorgio Vasari in his biography of Leonardo Da Vinci named The Genius of Leonardo Da Vinci shows a firsthand source of how others thought of him “In the normal course of events many men and women are born with various remarkable qualities and talents; but occasionally
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“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. I am still learning.” These powerful words emerged from one of history’s most famous artist‚ sculptor‚ and painter‚ Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni. Michelangelo lived and worked during the Italian cartist who was a perfectionist in every way. It was this perfectionism in his craft that led to his vast influence over this artistic time period through his many art works now on display in museums all around the world. These
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touchstones of Leonardo’s art‚ so intertwined. The artist Giorgio Vasari‚ a near-contemporary‚ told of how Leonardo kept Lisa del Giocondo‚ the young wife of a Florentine silk merchant‚ smiling during her portrait sessions. “While painting her portrait‚ he employed people to play and sing for her‚ and jesters to keep her merry‚ to put an end to the melancholy that painters often succeed in giving to their portraits.” The result‚ Vasari said‚ was “a smile so pleasing that it was more divine than
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Mona Lisa stems from a description by Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari‚ who wrote "Leonardo undertook to paint‚ for Francesco del Giocondo‚ the portrait of Mona Lisa‚ his wife."[5][6] Mona in Italian is a polite form of address originating as ma donna —similar to Ma’am‚ Madam‚ or my lady in English. This became madonna‚ and its contraction mona. The title of the painting‚ though traditionally spelled "Mona" (as used by Vasari[5])‚ is also commonly spelled in modern Italian as Monna Lisa‚ but
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were no great women artists in the Renaissance” When we think of great renaissance artists the first names that would come to most peoples mind would be Leonardo Di Vinci or Michelago. When it is looked at into more depth it would then lead to Giorgio Vasari and the father of Italian renaissance Giotto Di Bondone. Even when you type into Google ‘Great renaissance artists‘ the first names that come up are Michelangelo‚ Raphael‚ Sandro Botticelli‚ Titian‚ Donatello‚ Masaccio‚ Filippo Brunelleschi and
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period is Artistic Expression. Giorgio Vasari‚ a famous painter‚ writer‚ historian‚ and architect‚ says in his “Lives of Painters” discusses how Leonardo de Vinci had a rare gift of talent and ability to whatever subject he turned his attention. (Doc. 3) Here‚ Vasari is expressing that he believes Leonardo is the perfect “Renaissance Man”. Vasari is writing to show that many painters are very good at what they do but it is also good to be well rounded. Since Vasari is writing this and he is a painter
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