_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...

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 ...