Medieval Wood Carving Andrew Langwasser 2/6/12 Medieval Art History Medieval Wood Carving Ever since man has had the ability to fashion wood tools and weapons they have been carving them to have designs and be unique from all the others. Wood carvings can be on almost any wooden object from pipe stems to furniture and even the more complicated: church doors. In the first 11 centuries or so in human history very significant wood carvings are very rare. Wood is a very flexible and easy to
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The Back IV by Henri Matisse Henri Matisse was a French artist born December 31st 1869. He is known for his use of colour. He was a draughtsman‚ printmaker‚ and sculptor‚ but is known primarily as a painter. He painted during the period of expressionism and was considered a fauve. Matisse was also an accomplished sculptor whose radical style left lasting mark on modern art history. Although he pursued sculpture since his early years as an independent form of expression‚ he frequently used it to
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Pablo Picasso “Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth” Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor. He is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art. He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Among most famous Pablo Picasso paintings are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937)‚ his portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso
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greatest victory and an ideal situation for a human. Therefore the sculptor‚ Michelangelo depicts David in the most idealistic form of a human; where he represents a strong being‚ exuding concentration and self-confidence. Michelangelo sculpted what would be considered the perfection of a human and this was largely attributed his own study of the human form. Giorgio Vasari‚ from his Lives of the most excellent painters‚ sculptors and architects‚ states “For in it may be seen most beautiful contours
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The historic and iconic marble sculpture‚ Aphrodite of Knidos‚ sometimes referred to as Aphrodite of Cindus‚ was created by the sculptor Praxiteles. Not much is known about Praxiteles for sure as the only definite dates in relation to him are found at the base of a portrait statue where he inscribed “Praxiteles the Athenian made it” or are written by Pliny the Elder in his monumental work‚ Naturalis Historia (Encyclopedia of World Biography). This work places him during the 104th Olympiad‚ or roughly
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Michelangelo’s David "David" is the great sculptor of the Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo ’s masterpiece‚ created in 1501-1504‚ academy of fine arts collection in Florence now. The statue is considered to be the western art history one of the male human statues to boast about. As 2.5 meters high‚ even the base is 5.5 meters high‚ with the whole piece of marble. Michelangelo live from 03/1475 to 02/1564‚ he was an Italian sculptor‚ painter‚ architect‚ poet and engineer of the High Renaissance
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Imagination: Tvillio (Tullio) Lombardo and the Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture at NGA Paper One: An Antiquity of Imagination: Tvillio (Tullio) Lombardo and the Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture at NGA Tullio Lombardo‚ one of the most gifted sculptors of all time‚ brought his art alive by integrating classical antiquity and contemporary Renaissance Venice in all his works. People appreciated his creativity because he took the risk of stepping out from the culture of paintings‚ which were popular
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Michelangelo learned everything about becoming a painter and perfected this craft‚ but he had another passion; to become a sculptor. He knew he would never learn to sculpt if he remained with Ghirlandaio. Some of the utmost distinctive people in Florence frequently visited Ghirlandaio’s workshop‚ including Bertoldo di Giovanni. Bertoldo was an old sculptor who had been a pupil of the great sculptor Donatello. Michelangelo left Ghirlandaio and began to sculpt and was advised and guided by Bertoldo (Wilkinson
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The "pioneer generation" of the Renaissance artists was generally considered to be the painter Masaccio‚ the sculptor Donatello‚ and the architect Brunelleschi. They applied Humanist thinking to art by using the styles of the classical world‚ instead of their immediate past‚ to depict the world around them in a naturalistic manner. The idealized statuary of classical antiquity served as their models‚ while in architecture the classical orders were applied to Renaissance buildings. They also extended
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Michelangelo Many people have contributed something to what we know as the renaissance era‚ whether it was art‚ music‚ or poetry; But few have contributed to the renaissance era what Michelangelo has. Examples of this can be seen throughout history with his many famous paintings‚ sculptures‚ or his lesser known poetry. These examples include the Sistine chapel paintings and his David sculptures‚ these contributions alone prove that Michelangelo was one of the major contributors to the renaissance
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