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Cornell Fine Arts Museum Essay

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Introduction

Welcome to the Cornell Fine Arts Museum.
Has anyone visited here before?

Great! Well let me tell you a little bit about the museum.
This is a teaching museum, which means our mission is to educate the community. We give tours from k-12 and adults. We have free admission for all, so you are always welcome to come back!

We currently have 5,000 objects. We are the only museum in central Florida to hold antiquities and American art.

For this exhibition, we have selected works from our permanent collection and that’s what we will focus on today.

Before we go into the gallery, I want to state the museum etiquette that is important to follow.

Please do not get too close to the artwork so you don’t accidently …show more content…

This was a common practice * We know it’s a senator because of the velvet robe he wears

* How do you think power and wealth are portrayed in this painting?

* Is the sitter sitting or trying to get up?

* A servant boy is shown. Before this painting was cleaned in 1960s, the was painted over so that he was not shown. * Flesh is given depth by first using olive paint above flesh tones

Religion Redefined

Now lets look at Religion redefined.
Just like gesture and pose, we can see how certain aspects of a painting can hint to us who the figures are in a painting. We can also see how religion is portrayed in different ways even within the same religion

Cosimo Rosselli
Madonna and Child Enthroned
1470
Tempera

* Well known and respected Florentine painter * One of the artists who painted the walls of the Sistine chapel in the 1480s, before Michelangelo * Can you identify the figures? Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus. * How do you know? * What do the

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