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3 Artworks from the High Renaissance Period

for it seems to change expressions as we look at it (Pioch, 2002). What we have is a portrait of a real woman, a woman who loves ...

Paintings by Tintoretto and Da Vinci on the Last Supper

focuses on the men at the table, with Jesus in the center of the painting. In Tintorettos painting it is as if we are looking in a...

Enthroned Virgin and Child by Pietro Lorenzetti

Italy through such centers as Ravenna and Venice several centuries earlier (Fleming 155). Despite the fact that Byzantine traditio...

Dutch Vanitas Paintings and Vanity

the human body. In Leiden, the first important Vanitas painter was David Bailly (1584-1657), and later Pieter Claesz (c. 1596-166...

1937's Weeping Woman with Handkerchief Painting by Pablo Picasso

man very much at war with himself, constantly battling inner demons that prolifically poured onto his canvases. He literally had ...

Death in the Paintings 'My Birth' by Frida Kahlo and 'The Trench' by Jose Clemente Orozco

me today?" (Reed 25) His art has been described as being both powerful and extraordinary, and since the Mexican Revolution coinci...

Japanese Edo Art and Vincent Van Gogh's The Courtesan

the Japanese woman is "framed" by a pond that features water lilies, reeds and bamboo, as well as two figures in a boat, two frogs...

Overview of Impressionism

that will be discussed, involves his focus on the less than beautiful aspects of women. He did not fall into the genre of painters...

China's Secular Figure Painting

and propriety" (Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 2005). As such all paintings, beginning with the Dunhuang period, have...

Max Beckmann's Self Portrait with Horn

This offers a very powerful statement that can be seen as quite emotional and strong. When we think of the color orange we are ...

Early and High Renaissance

inquiry, which they saw as the "key to success," and believing this they sought to discover the laws governing such things as the ...

Dan Brown and "The Madonna of the Rocks"

This 3 page paper discusses the painting "The Madonna of the Rocks" that hangs in the Louvre with regard to the hand gestures of M...

Ruysch: Floral Still Life

to get a decent representation on a computer monitor.) But we do know that she was a pupil of van Aelst, and that he worked with v...

Madonna and Child by Fra Fillipo Lippi

possessed a style "on which his great pupil Botticelli informed himself" (Olgas Gallery, 2007). At the time of painting Madonna an...

Cimabue's "Madonna And Child Enthroned By Angels"

opportunity to create an illusion so grand that the observer is unable to determine what is image and what is reality. Light is t...

Venice, Italy

be seen both across the expanse of water and reflected in it (Lauritzen 12). San Marco is constructed so as to catch the light. Th...

Saint Paul Writing His Epistles

religious. In terms of it being historical, one may assume, without the presence of the title, that he could be a historical figur...

Wolfflin and Friedlander and Anti-Mannerism

painters of the Italian Renaissance "strove to achieve the image of perfection at rest within itself. Every form developed to self...

Barbara Novak/American 19th Century Art

"Death on the Pale Horse (1802), oil sketch on canvas, Allstons analysis relates something of his own romantic vision. He writes t...

The Sign for Gersaint's Shop and Departure from Cythera Paintings by Jean Antoine Watteau

painter of Louis XVs mid-18th-century France, the very paradigm of all that was best in a style of sensitive artifice coming after...

Italian Baroque Ceiling Paintings of the 18th Century

which was a term used by philosophers during the Middle Ages to describe an obstacle in schematic logic" (Wallbank, 1992). As such...

Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini's Marriage

fruit, the faithful little dog, the rosary, the unshod feet (since this is the ground of a holy union), and even the respectful sp...

Artist Eugene Delacroix

see these influences in his depiction of the legend of Sardanapalus. Delacroix, like any good author, was immediately drawn to t...

Crucifixion and Last Judgment Painting by Jan Van Eyck

is simply the "launching pad for an awesomely stark drama" (Perl, 1998). In the foreground on the Crucifixion panel, heavily drape...

Art of Henri Matisse and Jacob Lawrence

the background and one individual standing in the foreground. The painting is filled with images and different activities. There i...

Artists Egon Schiele and Edvard Munch on Sexuality

seems to have earned a portion of his income by supplying pornography to Viennese collectors (Lucie-Smith). Both Schiele and Mun...

Vincent Van Gogh's Bedroom and Pierre Auguste Renoir's Lady at the Piano Paintings

he studied at the Louvre (Pioch). Renoir struck up many friendships with other famous painters of the time such as Monet and he...

Elijah in the Desert Painting by Washington Allston

the essence of poetry, encourages contemplation of metaphysical truths" and that this should be "at the heart of artistic expressi...

Musical Party Painting by Mary Cassatt

greatly. In addition this figure, this woman, takes the center of the canvas for the most part, starting at the bottom of the pa...

James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Influences

In four pages this paper examines what influenced Whistler's life and art and also considers how society was influenced by Whistle...