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    northern Italian Renaissance artists. His unique style and artistic inventions inspired numerous contemporary artists in Florence. The Portinari Altarpiece‚ Sant’ Egidio‚ Florence‚ Italy‚ ca. 1476‚ is remarked as great altarpiece within art history that clearly depicts the influence of patronage within society. Tommaso Portinari‚ the donor of the Portinari Altarpiece‚ an Italian agent who worked as an assistant in the Medici bank in Bruges and represented Lorenzo de’ Medici‚ is thought to commissioned

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    The Maestà was at one time the amalgamation of over fifty individual panels that made up a two-sided altarpiece. The altarpiece was commissioned by the Cathedral of Siena from artist Duccio di Buoninsegna. Today different parts of the Maestà are either lost or scattered across collections in museums around the world after it was completely dismembered in 1771. Although‚ after its dismantlement‚ the full significance of the work has been lost‚ the Maestà remains an impressive display of art that

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    Masaccio favored a natural realistic illustration of the world and used the tromp l’oeil effect. This fresco incorporates classical antiquity of the Roman style of architecture. The second work of art is an oil painting on wood panel titled “Isenheim Altarpiece” by artist Grunewald in (dates). It was located in the chapel of the St. Anthony abbey hospital near Colmar‚ Germany. St. Bridget of Sweden described in detail the death of Christ which inspired Grunewald. Grunewald favored the medieval style which

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    and the human. The altarpieces at the Chapel of Saint Joseph were one of El Greco’s most important commissions. This commission was an opportunity to demonstrate his considerable ability in executing the religious aspirations and taste of his patrons’. A well-known priest of the time‚ Dr. Martín Ramírez de Zayas decided to provide the family chapel with an ambitious decorative program‚ without hesitation‚ he thought of El Greco. The commission was a retable with three altarpieces; distributed in two

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    World culture quiz  Question 1 2 out of 2 points | | | Why did the arts develop in Mesopotamia?Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: |    As celebrations of the priest-kings’ power | Correct Answer: |    As celebrations of the priest-kings’ power | | | | |  Question 2 2 out of 2 points | | | What did lost-wax casting enable the Mesopotamian sculptors to create?Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: |    Larger and more lightweight bronze pieces | Correct Answer: |    Larger

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    consideration about these paintings is that they resemble each other to a degree approaching bank notes’. Indeed‚ it is hard to elaborate why Isabella of Castile would commission an identical iconographic copy of her Fathers‚ King Juan II Miraflores Altarpiece. It is questionable to art historians‚ that are unable to answer to a full extent to why Isabella wanted a copy in her burial site in Capilla Real‚ Spain. The significant style of Rogier Van der Weyden‚ whose Triptych is reflective in allegory the

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    known as the Renaissance. Altarpieces were crafted for religious purposes and served as individual or communal devotional pieces. They commonly depicted scenes from classical antiquity. Neri di Bicci’s first important commission‚ The Assumption of the Virgin (1455-1456)‚ was an Italian altarpiece. It is composed of numerous recurring forms and lines that serve to unify the composition. This results in the spiritual bridge between the divine and the natural world. The altarpiece was commissioned for the

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    Rogier van der Weyden’s Seven Sacraments Altarpiece depicts penance and the everyday rites of the Christian society that are executed from birth to death. Hieronymus Bosch’s Table Top of the Seven Deadly Sins exhibits the seven sins engaged by people under the watchful eye of Christ that must be accounted for on judgement day. Both works are representations of the same important idea of penance. The apparent realism of artists such as Rogier van der Weyden and Hieronymus Bosch is more than mere imitation

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    in Alga‚ a monastic community. With a close relationship with the Canons‚ Tintoretto decorated this church with multiple paintings‚ including the Last Judgement‚ and the Worship of the Golden Calf‚ finished in 1566‚ and the Miracle of St. Agnes altarpiece in the mid-1560s‚ which all will be discussed in this reading. The Madonna dell’Orto was his local church. Documents record that he had lived in the neighborhood of the church since 1548‚ long before he began these paintings. He was even buried

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    Emotional Presentation in Annunciation In 1425‚ Fra Angelico was called upon to produce an altarpiece for the monastery of San Domenico in Fiesole‚ Italy. Angelico would create Annunciation; his perception of the commonly reproduced scene of the announcement of the birth of Christ. Seen in this tempera painted panel are the angel Gabriel as well as the Madonna alongside of a depiction of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. Through selection of color‚ positioning and poses of figures

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