_Arts

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)

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...