He left amazing art behind soon died of an unknown cause in 1488. Although he was a great painter, as a sculptor, it is accurate to say there were many beautiful works of his own in which it could be styled as Renaissance art. During his career, Verrocchio’s famous works include the “Equestrian Statue of Colleoni” and “Christ and Doubting Thomas”. In the bronze Colleoni statue, the style goes back to the Classical era of art but Verrocchio adds realism and expression. He is showing emotion in the horse and leadership of Bartolomeo Colleoni.
William Blake, born in London England, advertised much of his innate creativity at a young age. Sadly, not seeming to possess the economic means to seek an ordered education above a drawing school, Blake instead went on to take an apprenticeship at the age of fourteen under a London engraver. Engraving was a basic industry in the 18th century, as much of the tome printing and illustration at the time was in high appeal, and printed illustrations had to be made from either wood carvings or copper faces that made the profession as artistic as it was labor intensive. Blake’s life lasting art as an engraver would play a crucial role in how his poetry was published; indeed the two most compelling aspects that lead to his most famous works, such as "The Tyger", were his divine views of the Protestant Church and the preferred medium for his rhyme: engraving. Not to abuse Blake by not calling him an intellectual, he read excitedly and was a classic example of uninstitutionalized self-tutelage, but perhaps his most abundant strength as a Romantic poet was his unconventional and original analysis of the King James Bible and
Jan van Eyck was born in the Netherlands, and studied under his brother Hubert van Eyck. In 1425, van Eyck moved to Bruges to become a court painter for Phillip the Good. As a court painter, van Eyck had the opportunity to travel and improve his already great skill. After six years of travel, van Eyck settled in Bruges. Van Eyck’s work was commissioned by both Phillip the Good and outside patrons.
Carlos Schwabe Part A Carlos Schwabe was famous symbolic artist which he was born on July 21st, in 1866 and died in 1926. When Carlos Schwabe moved to Geneva in Switzerland from Altona he started studying art which he got brief success there which his talent was later unlocked when he moved to Paris while he was still a young man. He developed considerable graphic skills. He soon became active in Symbolist circles winning, favour as an illustrator of mystical religious themes. His highly refined drawings and watercolours accompany texts such as Le Reve by Emile Zola While working as a wall paper designer he became familiar with symbolist artists which then lead him to usually painting mythological and allegorical topics.
The author goes to describe the building boom of the 1300s, the arrival of the Black Plague, and the war against “the new duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti” (King 120). While all these events did directly affect Brunelleschi’s life, from building the dome to falling ill to the plague and to assisting the army during the war, King’s inclusion of this information gives the reader a biography of Florence, not just of Brunelleschi. For a young reader like myself, the construction of a dome may at first come off as unimportant. However, after reading Brunelleschi’s Dome and seeing just how many obstacles were overcome to complete the dome, one can see that this
Jan Tschichold (1902-19740), born on 2 April 1902 Leipzig, Germany was a typographer, book designer, teacher and writer. He was the son of a local signwriter. His artisan background and calligraphic training set him apart from almost all other typographers of the time, since they had certainly trained in architecture or the fine arts. Tschichold preferred using stock fonts on a careful choice from commercial paper stocks, unlike many typographers who worked with handmade papers and custom fonts. After Tschichold took up a teaching post in Munich at the request of Paul Renner, both he and Tschichold were criticized as "cultural Bolshevists".
He was born around 1450, and records say that he died in 1516. The indicator of his age was a drawing done of him shortly before his death, which depicted him in his early to middle sixties. It is unknown if this is a self-portrait and is not included in the count of 25 of his known works of art. He was born in Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, which is now near the Belgium border. This quiet, attractive city is where his name originated.
Ghent Altarpiece The Ghent Altarpiece is considered by scholars to be one of the most ambitious and complex paintings of the 15th century. Its detailed panels convey its sacred matter with such realism that art historians mark it as the start of the Northern Renaissance. The altarpiece, also known as the “Adoration of the Lamb”, was begun in 1425. The exterior frame of the altarpiece indicates it was started by painter Hubert van Eyck who died before he could finish, and then completed by his brother Jan van Eyck in 1432. The painting was then acquired by a wealthy patron Jodocus Vijd for placement in the Church of Saint John, Ghent, Belgium.
Vermeer often shows calm and quietness in most of his paintings, but his life was surprisingly different. Very little is known about Vermeer’s life, and only information can be obtained is from the legal documents. He was born in a protestant family in 1632 in a small province of Holland called Delft that had only 25000 people. His father was an art dealer so Vermeer started his career as a painter from an early age. At age of 20, he inherited his father’s of art dealership and became a master painter, but struggled to keep up with the fierce competition.
The first inkling of Modernism came after the French Academy refused 5000 works. Outraged by this censorship a Salon for the Refused artworks was created by Emperor Napoleon to exhibit the rejected art. Modernism can be considered as a Golden Age for art as well as a time of radical revolution against tradition. Impressionism began in Paris, France the art capital of the world in the late 1860’s. It was initiated by a group of artists (Claude Manet, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne, Alfred Sisley and Edouard Manet) who were tired of following the traditional style of art and so decided to rid themselves of these ‘outdated’ shackles and began to paint unconventional subjects and outdoor landscapes.