YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Renaissance Project on Paintings
Essays 721 - 750
the background and one individual standing in the foreground. The painting is filled with images and different activities. There i...
the paintings. To further narrow the field, Ive looked at each of the works in turn, picked out those that draw me most strongly....
picture" (Messengers of Light, 2005). There has also been recent discussion and controversy over one figure not being one of Jesus...
Italy through such centers as Ravenna and Venice several centuries earlier (Fleming 155). Despite the fact that Byzantine traditio...
find inspiration for a new direction. In many ways the Expressionist movement indicated that there was a deep inspiration from mor...
This offers a very powerful statement that can be seen as quite emotional and strong. When we think of the color orange we are ...
fruit, the faithful little dog, the rosary, the unshod feet (since this is the ground of a holy union), and even the respectful sp...
archetypes of the former age. The attention to the spiritual nature of mankind is evident throughout the arts during this time per...
Sarah Siddons was a well known personality of the age, perhaps the most famous actress. This presence of character is represented ...
Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...
of understanding into a cultures ideals and belief systems. The purpose of art, the creation of art, the interpretation of art, an...
Francis Hayman for the Rotunda at Vauxhall Gardens during the Seven Years War. Jonathan Tyers, the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens ...
at more than those two dimensions. This is achieved through limiting his use of shading and only subtly hinting at it, such as see...
artist deconstructed the objects in the painting and rearranged them on the canvas. The neutral tones of "gray, green, olive and o...
those external standards that are often the most telling in terms of the underlying historical perspective offered within the art....
Fine Arts. In 1866 she went back to Paris" where "She copied the old masters in the Louvre and other museums. The young woman arti...
clouds that are very sensuous in their round form. We are also given the flowing nature of the waves despite their horizontal posi...
do this, Da Vinci prepared the wall as if he were painting on panel (Rosand, 2001). The Last Supper pictures the moment when Jes...
"[A]fter school while his mother worked, Lawrence attended a day- care program at Utopia Childrens House, where he studied arts an...
View of Delft (c. 1658), an oil canvas in the Mauritshuis collection, The Hague, Vermeer carries the eye of the viewer from the pe...
titled "Life Science: Animals and Their Environments" includes the idea of also incorporating art into the lesson. The first artwo...
that art was significant in and of itself, i.e., "art for arts sake," and that abstract expressionism should be viewed as a "movem...
object of desire, but here she seems shy and even a bit hostile. In his book on Ingres, Robert Rosenblum describes one of Ingres o...
derive from your religion could be grouped around this central influence. For example, people holding hands in love and fellowship...
haiku poem Blasts of light, motion, Tortured vision, endless beauty, Lead to new understanding. Vincent van Gogh painted The Sta...
The so-called Early Renaissance is among the more interesting of these periods. So too, however, are the Late Renaissance and the...
painters of the Italian Renaissance "strove to achieve the image of perfection at rest within itself. Every form developed to self...
During the nineteenth century, all aspects of European culture were affected by the advent of the Industrial Revolution and the ad...
"Death on the Pale Horse (1802), oil sketch on canvas, Allstons analysis relates something of his own romantic vision. He writes t...
Descent into Hell," painted in the style of Hieronymus Bosch in the Netherlands between 1550-1560 is oil on wood, 21 x 46 inches, ...