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.
Once he turned twelve years of age, he began an apprenticeship which lasted five years. During this time, he learned how to “depict perspective and proportion accurately” (Quazen). After turning eighteen, the Seville Painters Guild certified him as a master painter, which in turn, gave him the license to work as a qualified artist. As a result, he spent his years doing “various religious paintings, tavern pieces known as bodegónes and random aristocratic portraits” (don Quijote). However, Velazquez wanted to overturn his fate as a middle class man.
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.
Title and subject Main article: Lisa del Giocondo The title of the painting that is known in English as Mona Lisa stems from a description by Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari, who wrote "Leonardo undertook to paint, for Francesco del Giocondo, the portrait of Mona Lisa, his wife. "[5][6] Mona in Italian is a polite form of address originating as ma donna —similar to Ma’am, Madam, or my ladyin English. This became madonna, and its contraction mona. The title of the painting, though traditionally spelled "Mona" (as used by Vasari[5]), is also commonly spelled in modern Italian as Monna Lisa, but this is rare in English. Vasari's account of the Mona Lisa comes from his biography of Leonardo published in 1550, 31 years after the artist's death, and which has long been the best known source of information on the provenance of the work and identity of the sitter.
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.
Antonello de Messina is another artists that made and impact on Renaissance art. He started using oil paints for portraits and religious painting. Giorgio Vasari is a very important name in Renaissance art. He broke down Renaissance into three different groups. The 14th century is the period of infancy, the early work of Giotto would fall in to the period.
The High Renaissance sought to create a generalized style of art that focused on drama, physical presence, and balance. The major artists of this period were Leonardo Da Vinci, Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian. The period lasted only a short time from 1495 to 1520. The Late Renaissance was put into motion by the sack of Rome in 1527, forcing artists to relocate to other artistic centers in Italy, France, and Spain. During this time, anti-classical sentiments began to emerge, eventually developing into the Mannerist movement.
In the Renaissance period, many artists found newfound interest and inspiration in the form of Greek Mythology. Artists from all over Europe found many intriguing subjects and stories in mythology, and began to express them in the form of paintings and statues. Where as ancient artists recreated these myths, among other reasons, as gifts to the gods, Renaissance artists enjoyed the depth of the stories and characters and viewed them as perfect subjects for their artwork. The painting I have chose to look at is “Apollo and Daphne,” painted by Antonio del Pollaiolo in the time frame of 1470 to 1480, using tempera on wood. This work is housed in the National Gallery in London, England.
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. If we should believe GiorgioVasari. (Italian painter, architect and biographer, one of Italy's busiest and most influential Mannerist artists), who tells us that on Simone's tomb there was an epitaph stating that he had died at the age of sixty, then the artist must have been born around 1284. But it should be noticed that nothing is known of Simone's life before 1315. Simone's death, which we know for certain was 4 August 1344.
In the same year, 1506, Julius II conceived a program to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The walls of the chapel had been decorated twenty years earlier. The lowest of three levels is painted to resemble draped hangings, and was hung on special occasions with the set of tapestries designed by Raphael. The middle level contains a complex scheme of frescoes illustrating the Life of Christ on the right side and the Life of Moses on the left side. It was carried out by