_Arts

Baroque (1600 - 1750) Early Baroque art appeared in Italy in the late 16th century, while some countries such as Germany and colonial South America did not adopt the style until as late as the 18th century. It was the popular style during the Counter-Reformation in the 17th century. Some of its characteristics are evident in Dutch art, but it was mainly limited to Catholic countries. Not solely associated with religious art, the Baroque style can also be seen in other forms such as Dutch still-life paintings. At the beginning of the 17th century, the Baroque style spread from Rome and migrated to varying countries, evolving as artists fused it with the traditions of their native countries. Spain and Latin America added extravagance to the style, while other countries made it more conservative. The movement never gained popularity in Holland or England, but was successful in Flanders, supported by Peter Paul Rubens. In France, the Baroque style was favored by the monarchy and used in ...

Venus and Adonis (1595-1597) Artist: Spranger, Bartholomäus Title: Venus and Adonis Deutsch: Venus und Adonis Year: 1595-1597 Technique Deutsch: Leinwand Dimensions: 163 x 104.3cm Current location: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie, Wien Notes Deutsch: Inv.-Nr. GG_2526 Provenienz: Aus der Kunstkammer Rudolfs II. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bartholom%C3%A4us_Spranger_021.jpg Paintings by Bartholomäus Spranger in the Kunsthistorisches Museum | Adonis

Artist El Greco (1541–1614) Title English: The Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest Español: El caballero de la mano en el pecho Date ~1580 Technique Oil on canvas Dimensions 81.8 × 65.8 cm (32.20 × 25.91 in) Current location Museo del Prado, Madrid, España http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:El_caballero_de_la_mano_en_el_pecho_(2008).jpg Portraits by El Greco | Paintings by El Greco in the Prado Museum

Pieter Bruegel the Elder Birth name Pieter Bruegel Born c. 1525, Breda, Habsburg Netherlands Died September 9, 1569 (age 44), Brussels, Habsburg Netherlands Field Painting, printmaking Movement Dutch and Flemish Renaissance Works The Peasant Wedding Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525 – 9 September 1569) was a Netherlandish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (Genre Painting). He is sometimes referred to as "Peasant Bruegel" to distinguish him from other members of the Brueghel dynasty, but is also the one generally meant when the context does not make clear which "Bruegel" is being referred to. From 1559 he dropped the 'h' from his name and started signing his paintings as Bruegel. Life There are records that he was born in Breda, Netherlands, but it is uncertain whether the Dutch town of Breda or the Belgian town of Bree, called Breda in Latin, is meant. He was an apprentice of Pieter Coecke van Aelst, ...

Allegory of Happiness (1564) Angelo Bronzino, "Allegorie des Glücks" (1564) Oil on copper 40 x 30 cm Uffizien (Florenz) Agnolo di Cosimo (November 17, 1503 – November 23, 1572), usually known as Il Bronzino, or Agnolo Bronzino was an Italian Mannerist painter from Florence. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angelo_Bronzino_-_Allegorie_Des_Gl%C3%BCcks.jpg Angelo Bronzino | Paintings in the Uffizi Gallery | 1564 paintings | Fortuna | Paintings of cornucopia | Caduceus | Allegorical paintings | Humans with angels | Oil on copper | Mannerism (1520 - 1600)

Tower of Babel (1563) Artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder Title English: Tower of Babel العربية: برج بابل Deutsch: Turmbau zu Babel Français : La Tour de Babel Español: Torre de Babel Italiano: Torre di Babele Русский: Вавилонская башня Polski: Budowa wieży Babel 中文: 巴別塔 Date 1563 Technique Deutsch: Öl auf Holz Italiano: Olio su Tavola Dimensions Deutsch: 114 × 155 cm Current location Deutsch: Kunsthistorisches Museum Deutsch: Wien Français : Vienne, Autriche Italiano: Vienna, Austria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brueghel-tower-of-babel.jpg

Academic art Academic art is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies or universities. Specifically, academic art is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Académie des beaux-arts, which practiced under the movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism, and the art that followed these two movements in the attempt to synthesize both of their styles, and which is best reflected by the paintings of William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Suzor-Coté, Thomas Couture, and Hans Makart. In this context it is often called "academism", "academicism", "L'art pompier", and "eclecticism", and sometimes linked with "historicism" and "syncretism". The art influenced by academies and universities in general is also called "academic art". In this context as new styles are embraced by academics, the new styles come to be considered academic, thus what was at one time a rebe...

Diane the Huntress Artist: School of Fontainebleau Meister der Schule von Fontainebleau Title: "Diane the Huntress" Deutsch: Diana als Jägerin Year: 1550-1560 Technique Deutsch: Leinwand Dimensions: 192 × 133 cm Current location: Musée du Louvre, Pari

Venus with a Mirror (Titian, 1554-1555) Title: Venus with a Mirror (Venus at her toilet) Artist: Titian (1477?–1576) Alternative Names: Tiziano Vecelli, Tiziano Vecellio References http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Titian http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Titian_Venus_Mirror_(furs).jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tizian_Venus-at-her-toilet.jpg

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...