Sistine Chapel Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, during the Renaissance period, there were many great artistic achievements that were incredible. Michelangelo Buonarroti was one of the most famous personalities from this era. He was an accomplished artist, sculptor, architect, and poet who created many astounding works. Some of his great accomplishments were his sculptures of David and the Pieta. He is probably most remembered for painting the ceiling at the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
Verrocchio was born to Michele di Francesco Cioni in Florence in 1435 and died in 1488 in Venice. During his short life, he had several students, including both the famous Leonardo da Vinci and Lorenzo de Credi. His work also influenced Michelangelo, another famous Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor. Andrea del Verrocchio was known for many famous paintings, and sculptures such as Christ and St. Thomas, but it was believed that he had reached the pinnacle of his career as an artist through his work on this particular piece. In fact, a widely spread story believed among the common folk was that del Verrocchio felt himself out painted by da Vinci upon completion of Baptism of Christ and vowed never to pick up the brush again.
The artist Giuseppe Archimboldo was an Italian painter who started out working for the office of the Fabbrica in the Duomo. Archimboldo was commissioned to do stained glass window designs which included the Stories of St. Catherine of Alexandria vitrage at the Duomo. He also worked on frescoes for the Cathedral of Monza. In 1558, Archimboldo drew the cartoon for a large tapestry of the Dormination of the Virgin Mary, which is still hanging in the Como Cathedral today (Giuseppe Archimboldo biography, 2013). Giuseppe Archimboldo was considered a mannerist artist who worked in the sixteenth century.
During a trip to Italy with his father in 1920, Giacometi saw paintings and sculptures which inspired him therefore he studied more in depth in sculpting. All of his early sculptures were all representational but then he started making more abstract pieces. Giacometti had always liked to experiment with different styles and sculpture. He was first influenced by cubism and the art work of Picasso, who he became friends with for a few years in Paris. Then his work started to show the influence of surrealism.
Introduction If I would try to reconstruct the life of Simone Martini using only documented facts this essey would have a very short account, with many gaps. However, making use of many of the elements that have been handed down by traditional accounts, I will try to use to reconstruct the great artist's life story. I will go over the life span of the mastery broadly speaking, and to discuss the details of two of his works, The Maestà and The Annunciation. „Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures“ ~Henry Ward Beecher Simone Martini was an Italian painter born in Siena. He was the son of a Master Martino specialized in the preparation of the arriccio (or first coat) applied to wall surfaces to be frescoed.
Leonardo da Vinci was very talented he was great artist, but he he became famous because he was able to do so many other things he was painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and write. When he was about 15 years old Leonardo’s father took him to Florence Italy to train as a painter and sculptor in the studio of Andrea Del Verrocchio. He studied with this master until the age of twenty five. He drew and took many notes of what he observed. Leonardo used everything he learned from nature and science to paint.
Uncle Guido was also a canon, scholar, and a collector of manuscripts, who also happened to own a library. Sometime in 1450 Guido Vespucci opened a school in the convent of San Macro for the children of the ruling class in Florence. This is where Americo would eventually be exposed to the teachings of the great philosophers Aristotle and Ptolemy. Here he also studied Latin, as well as astronomy cosmography and geography. The director of his uncle’s library was Paolo Toscanelli the most highly educated geographer in Florence.
He was naturally therefore excellent in architectural painting, and, in point of technique, he advanced the practice of oil-coloring in Italy. Excelled in chiaroscuro, the use of light and dark. • Abstraction, Naturalism- polished surfaces of gems and armour, luminous skies, sparkling rivers and streams, The church at San Francesco in Arezzo was founded in the late 13th century. The Bacci family agreed with the friars to sponsor the decoration of a section of the church called the Cappella Maggiore. In return the Bacci family was able to use the grounds for family burials.
It is one of many of his works that was able to stay in great condition; it has been well preserved over the years with no missing or faded out sections (Lightbown 164). His most productive years was in the decade of the 1480’s when he was called to Rome along with other artists to decorate the walls of the Sistine Chapel with scenes from the Old and New Testaments and of course it’s also when he created “The Mars and Venus” in c. 1483 (Campbell 73). The painting has a woman and a man that are the most predominant subjects in the painting. The woman is lounging or leaning back on a pillow to the left of the painting and the man is fast asleep on the right side of the painting. In between the woman and the man it is seen of what looks like three infant satyrs that are playing with a weapon, a helmet, and a shell.
Between 1600–1606 he was considered the “Most famous painter in Rome In 1599 Caravaggio was contracted to decorate the Contarelli Chapel in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi with two works, the Martyrdom of Saint Matthew and Calling of Saint Matthew. With the installation of the St. Matthew paintings in the Contarelli Chapel had an immediate impact among the younger artists in Rome, and Caravaggism became the cutting edge for every ambitious young painter. Caravaggio went