Comparison of Masaccio's The Holy Trinity and Grunewald's The Isenheim Altarpiece

Juan de Juanes was born in 1510 and finished painting Christ in the Arms of Two Angels four years before he passed away in 1579. In this painting, there are four different figures. There are two angels in the back, holding Jesus, showing care and concern on their faces. The angels are wearing bright colors, with wings and halos. Mary is on the right, looking up towards Heaven, as if she is praying to God to help her Son. While Mary is down on her knees, you can see that she is wearing a dark blue dress with a headpiece. She is also wearing a hint of white right below her face. Considering Jesus is the center of this painting, with marks across His entire body from beatings, He has a look of peace across His face. It is like He accepts the fact that He is dying, so He is no longer in pain. Even though, blood is running down the right side of His chest, onto His white piece of cloth, the angels and Mary are still caring for Him.

What atmosphere or mood does the setting create (for example, darkness may create a mood of fear or unhappiness while light or bright colors may create one of happiness)?

Rogier van der Weyden produced the “Deposition” circa 1435. This work of art falls in to the religion matrix because Jesus Christ is in the central focus with a cross in the background. Weyden painted the entourage with

• What atmosphere or mood does the setting create? (For example, darkness may create a mood of fear or unhappiness, while light or bright colors may create one of happiness.)

The space, too, shows signs that this painting is from the Renaissance. There is clearly a recession in space, although it is seen mostly in the landscape beyond the main subject. But even in the foreground, the use of diagonals to create architectural

The Last Supper by Leonardo is very different to Tintoretto’s representation of the same incident. The last supper is one of the most important occurrences which took place in the Christian religion such an important event that many have seen the need for the event visually recorded through art the two most famous of these representations are by far Tintoretto’s and Leonardo’s works. The Last Supper by Leonardo was created during the renaissance period and is a simple symbolic work with little emotion. Tintoretto however chose to represent the event in a surrealistic manner to give full impact; A way in which was typical of the art period in which he painted the work, the

Throughout history, art has been made to depict not only the life and culture of the time, but also as a reminder of important religious events of the past. One religious event in particular, which artists of multiple eras have chosen to paint is the iconic “Saint Francis in Ecstasy”. Two prime examples of this can be seen in New York City. One painting made around 1476-1478, by Giovanni Bellini, entitled “Saint Francis in the Desert” (but also referred to as “Saint Francis in Ecstasy”), was created in Venice using oil and tempera on poplar panel. The painting is 49 1/16 x 55 7/8in. and now stands in the Frick Collection. (Museum Wall Card) Slightly larger in size at 77 x 53 1/4in., is a second “Saint Francis in Ecstasy”, painted almost two

human body and architecture of two- dimensional surface in the 1400s. Horizon line, vanishing point and parallel lines are the system to linear perspective. Objects are smaller to represent depth, smaller objects are back into space and larger objects are bigger. Also using shadowing to create an illusion of depth. A great artist was Masaccio, who began to explore the idea of depth and volume in their art. Masaccio painted his fresco of the Holy Trinity in 1424. The title come from the three religious figures: Christ of the cross, the holy spirit and God the Gather standing behind Christ. God the father is standing behind Christ, we would traditionally

Paolo de Matteis’s esteemed work The Adoration of the Shepherds is a large painting, depicting a classic Christian Nativity scene, that is displayed in the Dallas Museum of Art. In the piece, a dozen or so individuals surround the newborn Christ and his parents, gazing at him in admiration and paying him homage while animals look serenely on and angels assemble around the heads of the Holy Family. The artist employs several classic artistic elements in his painting, such as line, light, color, and shape, to draw the viewer’s focus directly to his intended point of emphasis, the infant Jesus.

In the painting The Immaculate Conception (Figure 1) painted by Antonio de Palomino y Velasco, there is a prominent central figure found in the middle of the canvas. The figure is a woman draped in white and blue garments with red accents and surrounded by cherubs and doves. The woman is the Virgin Mary and has a crown of 12 stars around her head. Both cherubs and doves are often used as religious symbols and this piece of art is Biblical in that it illustrates Mary very much like she is described in the book of Revelation. Revelation 12:1 reads that “…a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun and, the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.” During the time period that Antonio Palomino created this piece, there were countless other artists painting similar works with their own spin on things. Notable artists include the likes of Juan de Valdes Leal and Bartolome Esteban Murillo. In this time period, the counter-reformation was taking place and I believe that, as a response to the protestant reformation, the painting of religious images was used to reignite growth in the Catholic Church.

For My Museum Essay, I have chosen Rogier van der Weyden’s “St. Luke drawing the Virgin” (c. 1435-40). First of all, this painting is an extraordinarily beautiful piece of art, with both meticulous details and true to life emotional state of the figures portrayed. And it intrigued me even more when I found out that there is a very compositionally similar painting by Jan Van Eyck (“Madonna with Chancellor Rolin”).

For being over eight hundred years, the Christ in Majesty with Symbols of the Four Evangelists remained in remarkable condition. However, pieces of the original piece, which originated in the Catalan chapel in Spain, have faded. Portions, especially along the bottom, have disappeared over time. Even though historians moved it to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, it has not been fully restored. The artist identified each of the apostles in the Christ in Majesty with Symbols of the Four Evangelists, but the writing has grown fainter and this creates a difficulty for art historians. Another key factor in the overall story represented has faded--one of the lamps or incense holders beneath Christ.

Painted on a panel, this painting was done in tempera, a pigment dissolved in egg. The chief medium till the late 1400s, tempera dries very quickly and when it does it gives a flat and dry appearance. This painting has sharp brushstrokes that do not fuse together and the forms have very sharp edges. All this is attributed partly to his style, and partly to the limitations of his medium. Artists at this time did not know much about the study of perspective, and Barna di Siena’s image reflects this flatness and lack of dimension. Not only are there different people on different scales supposedly in the same plane, even individual

Milestone 2 Task 3: Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels

This source is a picture showing the San Lorenzo church, which was known as the Medici chapel. The San Lorenzo Church is originated in Florence in 1419. It also is the Tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici. Michelangelo makes an imprint on the San Lorenzo church by adding architectural designs and