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Danae (1546) Artist: Tizian (Titian) Title: Danae Year: 1545-1546 Technique: Deutsch: Öl auf Leinwand Dimensions: 120 × 172 cm Current location: Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte., Neapel http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tizian_011.jpg Renaissance paintings in Naples | Eros | Farnese Collection | National Museum of Capodimonte (Naples) | Danae by Titian

Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time Artist: Angelo Bronzino (1503–1572) Title: Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time [Allegory of the Triumph of Venus] Deutsch: Allegorie des Triumphes der Venus Français : Allégorie du triomphe de Vénus Italiano: Allegoria del trionfo di Venere Year: 1540-1545 Technique: Deutsch: Öl auf Holz Français : Oil on wood Français : Huile sur bois Italiano: Olio su tavola Dimensions: 146 × 116 cm (57.48 × 45.67 in) Current location: National Gallery, London Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time - also referred to as An Allegory of Venus and Cupid and A Triumph of Venus - is an allegorical painting by the Florentine artist Agnolo Bronzino now in the National Gallery, London. Around 1546, Bronzino was commissioned to create a painting which has come to be known as Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time. It displays the ambivalence, eroticism and obscure imagery which is characteristic of the Mannerist period, and of Bronzino's master Pontormo. The painting may have been...

Mannerism (1520 - 1600) Mannerism was an art style that focused on the human form, depicted in intricate poses and in exaggerated, not always realistic settings. The term Mannerism was derived from the Italian word maniera, translated as “style.” It developed in Florence and Rome between 1520 and 1600, as a style that rejected the balance of the Renaissance period in favor of a more emotional and distorted point of view. This art style reflected the tension in Europe at the time of its popularity. The movement eventually gained favor in northern Italy and most of central and northern Europe. Paintings contained artificial color and unrealistic spatial proportions. Figures were often elongated and exaggerated, positioned in imaginative and complex poses. Works of the movement are often unsettling and strange, probably a result of the time period’s upheaval from the Reformation, the plague, and the sack of Rome. In 1600, Mannerists were accused of disrupting the unity of Renaissance cl...

Venus Anadyomene Artist: Titian (1477?-1576) Date: 1525 Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: H 75.8 x W 57.6 cm Venus Anadyomene offered a natural subject for a fountain: the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC has a lifesize bronze plumbed so that water drips from Venus’ hair, modelled by a close follower of Giambologna, late sixteenth century. Artist Titian (1477?-1576) Alternative names: Tiziano Vecelli; Tiziano Vecellio Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio, commonly known as Titian, was a 16th century Renaissance painter in Venice, Italy. References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anadyomene.jpg http://akorra.com/2010/03/06/top-20-beautiful-female-nude-artwork/ This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Australia, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years. Titian Venuses | Female nude in paintings | Venus Anadyomenes | 1525 paintings | National Gall...

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Leonardo Da Vinci is the most well known of The Old Masters of the Renaissance period in Europe. Born April 15th, 1452 an illegitimate son of a Florence, Itlay notary, Piero da Vinci, and a young woman named Caterina in a small town of Vinci, Leonardo had artistic talent at a young age, he was apprenticed to Andrea Verrocchio in 1469, a leading Renaissance master of that time. Leonardo stayed and studied at the progressive Florence workshop where he aquired a varitey of skills in the arts. He became a member of the painters' guild in 1472 and by 1478 he was commissioned to paint an altarpiece for the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. By 1482 Leonardo left Florence for Milan and worked for Duke Lodovico Sforza for the next 18 years. He was the court artist, and worked on many projects that saw him branch out into civil and military engineering, anatomy, mathematics, physics, and biology. In 1499, when Leonardo's patron along with the town of Florence f...

Sleeping Venus (1508-1510) Artist: Giorgione (1477 — 1510) Title: Sleeping Venus Deutsch: Schlummernde Venus Year: between 1508 and 1510 Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 108 × 175 cm (42.52 × 68.90 in) Current location: Gemäldegalerie, Dresden This painting was done by Giorgione in approx. 1509 c. It was unfinished at the time of his death and the sky was later finished by Titian. (Titian also painted a similar Venus, but it was not as agitated and unsettled as Giorgione's nude.) Obviously a painting with underlying erotic implications, this can be seen by the Venus' raised arm (the exposed arm pit a symbol of sexuality) and also the blatant placement of her left hand. The sheets are a silver colour (a cold colour rather than a more commonly used warm tone) and they are very rigid looking (in comparison to Titian's or Velzquez's Venus'). The landscape mimicks the curves of the nude and this in turn relates the human body back to natural, organic objec...

Leonardo da Vinci - Leda Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) http://www.allpaintings.org/v/Renaissance/Leonardo+da+Vinci/Leonardo+da+Vinci+-+Leda+1508+15.jpg.html Renaissance (1400-1600)