LOCATION In 1495, Leonardo Da Vinci began painting the Last Supper on the wall of the refectory (dining hall) of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy, and completed it in 1498. Leonardo was commissioned to execute the painting in the Dominican monastery of this Church by Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza. The church and friary found an ambitious patron in Ludovico Sforza. The Duke wanted to give visible expression to his position in both impressive buildings like the grand Church and grandiose paintings like the Last Supper. Therefore, Santa Maria delle Grazie became the court church, burial place for members of the Ducal family, and home to Leonardo's famous painting.
It is an oil painting on a 29” x 36” canvas. The picture shows the view from his window at the Saint Remy Asylum in Providence (located in southern France), just a year before his suicide. “This morning I saw the country from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big.” This is how he spoke of it in a letter he sent with the painting to his brother, Theo. After studying the painting for a long time, I chose first 4 fundamentals of art that really caught my attention to explain for my formal analysis. Van Gogh’s use of line, color, motion, and rhythm spoke to me the strongest.
The piece of art I chose while at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts was a painting made in the 19th century by an artist named Thomas Moran, who was born in England but was an American citizen. Thomas was born in 1837 and died in 1926 at the age of 89. The painting is called Lower Manhattan from Communipaw, New Jersey, and was painted in 1880 with oil on a canvas. I think the theme of the art is history because everything in the painting shows how Manhattan operated with all of the industries and factories producing items and raw materials for business, and it shows the beginning of the pollution of our ozone layer and waters from the smoke of the factories and the garbage that was washed ashore. It also shows laborers and how they
To what Extent is William Wilberforce responsible for ending slavery in the British Empire? William Wilberforce was born on August the 24th 1759 in Hull, Yorkshire, and played a key role in the abolishment of the slave trade. William had a severe illness which affected his life greatly, and sadly he died of it on the 29th of September 1833, at the age of 73. William was elected to parliament at the age of 21 in September 1780and he first started to consider a political career during university, where both he and William Pitt watched the House of Commons regularly from the Gallows. In many ways William Wilberforce was largely responsible for the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire, he presented many anti slave trade bills, such as his first ‘Abolition of the Slave Trade’ Bill, which he planned to present in 1789, but his plan was cut short when he fell ill.
Paul Cézanne was a French painter known as the father of modern art. He was the first post-impressionist painter of the 19th century and his catalogue of work is distinct and widely known throughout the world. Of his collection, the twenty six oil paintings of his wife, Hortense Fiquet Cézanne had been met with the harshest review. In Emotion, Color, Cézanne (The Portraits of Hortense), Susan Sidlauskas attempts to explain why this group of paintings was so boldly criticized, as well as delving into how the artist used a unique sense of color to portray a duality of emotion within each piece. Sidlauskas begins the article with a brief history of Hortense Fiquet Cézanne.
Mid History: The Trevi Fountain was originally created by the designs of Bernini and was funded by Pope Urban VIII. 1. Upon, its completion of the fountain, Pope Urban VIII had died and left further renovation closed and abandoned. 2. With years of the abandoned fountain, Pope Clement XIII had begun further renovations on the fountain and later had commissioned, Nicola Salvi to further carry on the completion of the fountain in 1732.
An Analysis of Gauguin’s Painting… “WHERE DO WE COME FROM WHAT ARE WE WHERE ARE WE GOING” Painting: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Date: 1897-1898 Painter: Paul Gauguin Dimensions: Approximately 5’ wide by over 12’ long Medium: Oil on Canvas Painted in: Tahiti On Display: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ma [Wikipedia, the notes from class as well as The MFA of Boston where used as sources for this paper] Sabrina Marie Marchand Art of the Modern World November 16th 2010 WHERE DO WE COME FROM WHAT ARE WE WHERE ARE WE GOING Paul Gauguin was a well known post-impressionist painter who lived from 1848-1903. Gauguin is best known for the unique style he used while creating his paintings but also dabbled in a variety of different artistic outputs such as sculpting, wood carving and even writing.
The Restoration of the Sistine Chapel; was it cleaned or damaged? Michelangelo used fresco to complete the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in 1508-1512. The ceiling has been a staple center for the Vatican. Tourists from all over the world flock to see the Chapel and the magnificent paintings the building has to offer. Michelangelo’s painting of the ceiling has come under scrutiny in the past decade.
“Watson and the Shark” was painted in 1778 by John Singleton Copley, an American artist living in England at the time. He used oil on canvas to create this masterpiece. The dimensions are 72 1/4 by 90 3/8 inches. The painting depicts a shark attack on a fourteen-year-old boy, Brook Watson. The painting is based on the real attack that took place in Havana Harbor in 1749, where Watson was saved after losing his lower left leg.
Thomas Jennings 1791-1856 Thomas Jennings, born in 1791, was the first African American to be given a patent, on March 3, 1821. Thomas Jennings was awarded his patent for a dry cleaning process (U.S. patent 3306x). At the time, he was operating a dry cleaning business in New York City, and was heavily involved in abolitionist activities. The patent was for a dry-cleaning process called "dry scouring", and he used the initial money he earned from it to purchase freedom from slavery for his family. In 1831, Thomas Jennings became assistant secretary for the First Annual Convention of the People of Color in Philadelphia, PA. Thomas Jennings was a free man when he took out his patent, otherwise he might have had trouble obtaining the patent in his name.