Many individuals were gifted with artistic skill and creativity. I will talk about how the Mediterranean influenced the Northern Artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Peter Paul Rubens, Simon Vouet and Anthony van Dyck. I will pick one famous piece of each and explain how they used Baroque or Italian features. Albrecht Dürer was born May 21, 1471 in the Franconian city of Nuremberg, one of the artistic and commercial centers in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. He was a painter, draftsman and writer but his greatest artistic impact was in the medium of printmaking.
Durer frequently traveled to Italy; most of his works were inspired by Italian artists such as Leonardo da Vinci. He also very strongly believed that geometry was an important skill for art; as his quoted goes “…the sole reason why painters of this sort are not aware of their own error is that they have not learnt Geometry, without which no one can either be or become an absolute artist.” In many of his paintings, Durer has special geometric figures. For example, his work Melancholia contains a “magic square”. Also in Melancholia is the polyhedron in the picture, the faces of which appear to consist of two equilateral triangles and six somewhat irregular pentagons. Other works also depict his fascination with geometry, such as the book he published which dealt, among other things, with the construction of various curves, polygons, and other solid bodies.
476, para. 1) Bramante’s Tempietto kicked off the move towards the High Renaissance era. With Michelangelo’s painting of the Sistine Chapel, it has been noted that Bramante suggested that he use scaffolding that could be suspended from the ceiling to properly paint the roof of the Chapel. Michelangelo later decided to create his own scaffold because he did not want anything marking the area that would be painted. (Nickerson, 2008) Bramante then used Michelangelo’s style when he needed a scaffold for St. Peter’s.
Art History II 4/22/2009 Museum Assignment For the museum assignment I choose to compare and contrast the following two examples of Italian renaissance art. The renaissance or re-birth was a cultural change that spanned from about the 14th through the 17th centuries. The renaissance began in Italy; it emphasized learning based on classical sources. The two works of art were altarpieces; an altarpiece is a picture or relief representing a religious subject suspended in a frame behind the altar of a church. Altarpieces were commonly commissioned to artists during the renaissance in Italy.
Compare and Contrast Essay The painting “Foreshortened Christ” and the sculpture “Pieta” both talks about the same story. The massage its both trying to depict are also similar. But its different material and medium would give the viewer a totally different experience feeling. The artist of the sculpture “Pieta” is made by one of the most famous artist sculptor Michelangelo. It’s made around 1498 to 1500 and the style is Renaissance.
He uses his power of defiance to pick up a record and play it over the loud speaker of the prison his defiance gets him in a lot of trouble and two weeks in the hole. With Andy playing the music over the prison loud speakers it represents the necessity of hope that the prisoners need to have to stay away from being institutionalised. The hope is represented by all the prisoners stopping what they are doing and just pausing and embracing the music being played. Therefore the opera scene represents both the necessity of hope and the power of defiance within the walls of Shawshank prison. Another scene that represents the necessity of hope is when Andy gives Red the harmonica as a present and then Red plays it alone one night in his cell.
Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint the chapel’s ceiling. Michelangelo was timid at first about painting the chapel. He claimed that he didn’t have the ability to paint figures very well and sculpting was his stronger suit. However, he agreed to paint the ceiling and it is now one of his most world-renowned pieces of work. Michelangelo began working on the painting in 1508 and finished in 1512.
These ideals and concerns heavily influenced the subject matter of the art produced under each movement. Italian Renaissance art focused on classical Greek and Roman mythology, like Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus. Northern Renaissance art turned its attention to portraits and domestic scenes, the most famous of which is Jan van Eyck’s Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife. Along with subject matter, both the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance had distinct styles also influencing the look of its art. Italian Renaissance art was heavy on symmetry and balance and giving the subjects a sense of mass and volume by using knowledge of the underlying anatomy of the human figure.
Here he met his good friend, Amadeo Modigliani. Modigliani was and Italian painter and sculptor who mainly worked in the styles of fauvism and cubism of figures. Although Rivera is known for his frescoes, there was a short time between 1913 and 1917 where he devoted his work solely to the style of cubism. Cubism at this time was big in Paris, where Rivera was currently studying. Here he met the father of cubism, Pablo Picasso.
The artists of the Renaissance, masters such as Raphael and Michelangelo, studied the human form and nature for inspiration. Their art was balanced and harmonious. The proportions of their subjects were authentic and their art was often religious in nature. Mannerists, however, often painted their subjects with disproportionate features, such as elongated necks and limbs. Open spaces were filled with objects or figures that were often unnecessary.