Thus, I think Mona Lisa is the most suitable artwork for me to mediate different meanings produced since the Renaissance until the postmodern world. The Renaissance’s painter Leonardo Da Vinci finished the portrait in between 1503-1504. There are multiple hypotheses about why the portrait was created: some of them says that it is a self- portrait of the painter by noting that the eyes, nose- tip and mouth of Mona Lisa actually line up with a known self portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci. Other claims that the sitter and the painter had a special rapport. Thus, the sitter appeared to look at the viewer (actually the painter) straight in the eye with ease.
One of his other well know paintings is Madonna Enthroned, also known as the Ognissanti Madonna ( c. 1310 ). The painting is thought to be painted for the Church of Ognissanti (All Saints), Florence. The painting was commissioned by an order called the Humiliati, they were known for the humble, indigent lifestyle (Ognissanti). The painting is a Tempera on panel and it was over ten feet tall (128 in × 80 in). Humiliati intended the art work to be originally used as an altarpiece.
INDIVITUAL RESEARCH PAPER ARTIST- Raphael Sanzio Author Raees Sattar- #1566 American National College DR. B.D. Nandadeva Art History and Art Appreciation-ART-211 Introduction- Rafello Sanzio da Urbino, or simply Raphael, by which he was better known as, who lived from April 6, 1483 to April 6, 1520, was an Italian painter and an architect of the High Renaissance period, who was very famous for his perfect and attractive paintings and drawings. Raphaels most famous and well-known piece of work is the School of Athens, but however, there are his other paintings too like The Alba Madonna, Madonna della Tenda, Madonna del Baldacchino, The madonna of Foligno, Madonna and the Child, and finally The Granduca Madonna. He also painted religious paintings like Mary and the Infant Jesus, etc, which tells us that he was a more religious kind of artist. He did not learn to paint on his own, but his father who too was an artist called Giovanni Santi taught him.
His new style was without any doubt Italian, it showed an individual talent and a profound study of Italian painters. Vouet introduced the Italian Baroque style in France with such paintings as The Toilet of Venus, but his late works displayed the soft, idealized modeling, sensuous forms, and bright colors for which he is best known for. In The Toilet of Venus, I noticed that Venus is naked and is only covered with elegant fabrics. I also noticed some cherubs holding the mirror that Venus is looking
JEAN DUPAS Jean Dupas was born in Bordeaux, France in 1882 and died in 1964. He was a designer, poster artist, decorator and painter. His paintings are the most closely associated with the Art Deco period. Dupas worked in Rome, Italy in 1910 for two years where he produced ‘Le Danse’ (on the right), a smaller part of a bigger painting ‘Le Pigeons Blanc’ which won a gold medal when it was presented in Salon des Artistes Français in 1922. This work was inspired by Inges “Turkish bath” and it is on eof the first examples of Art Deco painting due to the way the figures have been drawn; arabesque-ish long necks, bent wrists, almost sculptural.
The larger work was probably commissioned for export to Italy, possibly to a Venetian patron whose identity is lost. [4] The Entombment was first recorded in a mid-19th century Milan inventory and has been in the National Gallery, London since its purchase on the gallery's behalf by Charles Lock Eastlake in 1861. The painting is an austere but affecting portrayal of sorrow and grief. It shows four female and three male mourners grieving over the body of Christ. They are, from left to right, Nicodemus, Mary Salome, Mary of Clopas, Mary, the mother of Jesus, John the Evangelist, Mary Magdalene and Joseph of Arimathea.
Miracle of the Crib at Greccio and the Lamentation Giotto’s painting shows many similarities of a Christian style painting. One of giotto’s painting was the Miracle of the Crib at Greccio. Many scholars differ whether young Giotto or his followers, in the late 1330, painted the Miracle of the Crib at Greccio. Therefore, many have adopted the neutral designation of the artist as the Saint Francis Master. This masterpiece was from the late 1200s and is in the church of San Francesco, Italy.
It was done in the renaissance period as it represents the Italian civilization. It was painted in Florence, Italy, the piece appears as it was originally constructed and now kept under strict in Musee du Louvre in Paris, France after it was stolen by an Italian man. (Sassoon, 2001, p.12) The reason why this painting was made is because it was a request from Mona Lisa’s husband Francesco Del Giocondo who was a famous and wealthy merchant in Florence. (Stokatad. Cateforis.
The main points are supported by relevant evidences, explanations and reasons. For example, the painting of “Girl with a Pearl Earring” by Johannes Vermeer is supported with evidences. The speaker research proves that the suggestion of the girl in the painting was the daughter of Vermeer was wrong. However, she was the lovely maid, who developed an intimate relationship. Her research also reveals that the clothes and pearl earring worn by her was actually his wife’s belongings.
Another famous painter of this time was Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was born in 1452 and died in 1519. Leonardo is most for his painting the Mona Lisa which was painted in 1503. The Last Supper was also painted by Leonardo da Vinci in 1498. In the Italian Renaissance people also tried to understand science.