_Arts

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)

Mona Lisa (1503–1506) Artist: Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) Title: Mona Lisa Italiano: La Gioconda (Monna Lisa) Français : La Joconde Year: 1503–1506 Technique: Oil on poplar Dimensions: 77 cm × 53 cm Current location: Louvre, Paris Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda or La Joconde) is a sixteenth-century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel in Florence, Italy by Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci during the Renaissance. The work is currently owned by the Government of France and is on display at the Louvre museum in Paris under the title Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo. Arguably, it is the most famous and iconic painting in the world. The painting is a half-length portrait and depicts a woman whose facial expression is frequently described as enigmatic. Others believe that the slight smile is an indication that the subject is hiding a secret. The ambiguity of the subject's expression, the monumentality of the composition, and the subtle ...

The Birth of Venus Artist: Sandro Botticelli Title: The Birth of Venus Bosanski: Rođenje Venere. Česky: Zrození Venuše. Dansk: Venus' fødsel. Deutsch: Geburt der Venus. Español: El nacimiento de Venus. Eesti: Veenuse sünd. Français : La Naissance de Vénus. Italiano: La nascita di Venere. 日本語: ヴィーナスの誕生 한국어: 비너스의 탄생 Polski: Narodziny Wenus. Slovenčina: Zrodenie Venuše. Suomi: Venuksen syntymä. Svenska: Venus födelse. Türkçe: Venüs'ün Doğuşu Русский: Рождение Венеры. 中文: 维纳斯的诞生 Year: 1486 Technique: Tempera on canvas Dimensions: 172.5 × 278.5 cm (67.91 × 109.65 in) Current location: Galleria degli Uffizi The Birth of Venus is a painting by Sandro Botticelli. It depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a full grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore (which is related to the Venus Anadyomene motif). The painting is held in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Origins In the past many scholars thought that this large picture may have been, lik...

Apollo and Daphne Description: "Apollo and Daphne" by Piero Pollaiuolo. Painted in the late 15th century. Date: 15th century (1470s – 1480s) Author: Piero Pollaiuolo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne.jpg

Acca Larentia 1414-1419 Marble, height: 162 cm Palazzo Pubblico, Siena This well-preserved figure is from the damaged Fonte Gaia, the Sienese fountain commissioned for the sloping, fanshaped Piazza del Campo on the site of a trecento fountain. Two drawings preserve some of its original features which were altered during its execution between 1414-19. In the 19th century, a replacement was installed and the dismembered pieces moved. The large fountain included allusions to the city's Roman history and Christian virtues, culminating in the central Madonna and Child. While most of the sculpture was in relief, two freestanding figures formed part of the Roman iconography: Acca Larentia, the goatherd's wife who cared for the young Romulus and Remus, and Rhea Sylvia, their mother. The figure of Acca Larentia derives from a Roman Venus and has Jacopo's characteristic fleshiness and heavy drapery. The group is psychologically integrated, for as she holds one of the chubb...