Many individuals were gifted with artistic skill and creativity. I will talk about how the Mediterranean influenced the Northern Artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Peter Paul Rubens, Simon Vouet and Anthony van Dyck. I will pick one famous piece of each and explain how they used Baroque or Italian features. Albrecht Dürer was born May 21, 1471 in the Franconian city of Nuremberg, one of the artistic and commercial centers in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. He was a painter, draftsman and writer but his greatest artistic impact was in the medium of printmaking.
Andrea del Verrocchio's art embodied the style of the Renaissance because he portrayed realism and humanism, made three-dimensional paintings and sculptures using perspective and other skills. Verrocchio was born as Andrea di Michele di Francesco de’ Cioni on 1435 in Florence, Italy. Before being a painter and a sculptor, he was a goldsmith and took the name from his master he was studying under, Giuliano Verrocchio. It is indicated that he was also trained under Fra Filippo Lippi as a painter. As for his painting career, there is only a few paintings he is fully credited for or recognized as his work.
He has sat in Chamber of Deputies of Italy for couple of years. Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was born in Germany. He has composed his first work Die Feen at age of 20, but it has never been performed during his lifetime. He has been appointed conductor of the King of Saxony after performance of Rienzi. He also wrote important literary works in his life, and his music dramas Die meistersinger von Nibelung, The Ring of The Nibelung, Tristan und Isolde were performed at last.
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
Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676). Cavalli is amongst the most important of Monteverdi's successors, Cavalli was a major force in spreading opera throughout Italy and also helped introduce it to France. His
Some of the most important collection of Renaissance painting would be that of Federico da Montefeltro who helped Urbino flourish in art and culture and commissioned perhaps the largest library in Italy with the paintings in Monefelto's court displaying the first theoretical treatise on perspective. Ludovico Gonzago strongly promoted Mantua for its art and culture he had the church of Sant Andrea rebuilt by Alberti who displayed religion and architectural with a combination of three ancient roman forms temple front, triumphal arch and basilica. The Medici family played a huge role in discovering the great artist of the 15th century. Giovanni de'Medici
Ognissanti Madonna In the early years of the Italian Renaissance no other artist made a bigger impact then Giotto Di Bondone (c. 1267–January 8, 1337). Giotto was a painter and architect from Florence Italy. He is often credited of being the father of the Renaissance. The frescoes in the Arena Chapel, Padua are famously accredited to Giotto. One of his other well know paintings is Madonna Enthroned, also known as the Ognissanti Madonna ( c. 1310 ).
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.
Renaissance - Reflections of Reality Advancement in painting techniques during the Renaissance was not only the rebirth of Art but the birth of Art as we know it today. Major contributing factors I will be discussing here are the adoption of oil-based pigment as the leading medium for painting and the idea that Art could not only tell a religious story in an emotional thought provoking way but represent the here and now, the reality of life in a realistic way. Jan van Eyck was a 15th century Flemish painter, van Eyck was one of the most celebrated painters in Northern Europe during the fifteenth century, widely hailed for his miraculous ability to depict observed reality with a refinement verging on the microscopic. The beginnings of oil painting are recorded as early as the 12Th Century in Northern Europe. But it was the virtuoso handling of the medium on panel by van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden that represented a turning point in its eventual adoption as the major painting medium in Europe in the 16th Century.
The Mona Lisa Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the most well-known painters and most talented geniuses the world has witnessed, in addition he was one of the biggest Italian masters in painting, sculpture and architecture. (Earls, 2004, p.103) The incredible and famous painting “Mona Lisa” for the painter Leonardo Da Vinci which is 77 cm in high and 53 cm long (31 in × 21 in) (Sassoon, 2001, p.2) was believed that it was painted between c. 1503 to 1506 (Stokatad. Cateforis. Addiss, 2002, p.690), other say that it was painted between c. 1500 to 1504 (Earls, 2004, p.103), but unfortunately he did not finish it. It was done in the renaissance period as it represents the Italian civilization.