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Mary Bourgeois Prof Sharon Worley Arts History 1303 05/15/17 Saints and Scenes from the Life of the Virgin While searching several amazing online museums I had in mind locating something in relation to the Archangel Gabriel. I find biblical pieces to really speak to me and I wanted to learn more about Gabriel. I originally found the Miniature Plaque: Archangel Gabriel in soapstone but found it not so easy to find exact pictures or sufficient information. Instead I found something even better with

When one marvels at a painting it is tempting to take in one section at a time so as to not miss anything. Certain work entices the audience to come forward, into the scene. Yet the whole painting in its entirety is made to be experienced from a distance, a place where the expanse of the scene can be taken in fully for all it was created to be. Certain brushstrokes or movements only come together when viewed from three yards away. An art museum is a sanctuary filled with these temptations. Each illustration

The Holocaust was a devastating time for many people. Eleven million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and other non-Aryans were killed. But lives were not the only thing lost during the Holocaust. Hitler and the Nazis stole several million works of art. Five million were tracked down and recovered by the Monument Men. These courageous people helped to find and save the art stolen during the greatest cultural disaster in history. Hitler and the Nazis stole all kinds of art and for many different reasons

Overview of Medieval and Renaissance Theatre Throughout the early Middle Ages, the theater had suffered some underdevelopment and ultimately diverged a great deal from the Greek ritualistic theater. The Middle Ages ranged from the 5th century to the 15th century A.D. and theater during this time is split up into two parts. During the early age, (5th to 8th) it was a time where there was essentially no major progress in the field and everything learned seemed to have been forgotten. The activities

however, four years later he was charged with sodomy, along with four other men. Even though the charges did not stick, Da Vinci dropped off the map for two years after that later appearing in Milan. Where he was given the commission of a large altarpiece, the Adoration of the Magi, which he never finished. Though the painting was never finished it begins to show the revolutionary changes Leonardo would bring to the Renaissance. Instead of following tradition and placing the virgin and child in the

art period between 1520 and 1600. Pontormo was a reclusive artist, and many of his works have an otherworldly quality heightens their spiritual intensity. This quality is seen in his Deposition (1525-1528, Church of Santa Felicitá, Florence), an altarpiece painted with luminous tints of pink, orange, blue-violet, and green. The lack of dark shadows in this painting, as well as the sense that the figures are weightlessly suspended in space, adds to the work’s strange beauty. The painting shows the

that the student became the best there is. LEONARDO DA VINCI RESEARCH Sadly all good things must come to an end, in 1478, Leonardo left Verrocchio’s studio. However, shortly after leaving, da Vinci received his first independent commission for an altarpiece to reside in a chapel inside Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio. Three years later the Augustinian monks of Florence’s San Donato a Scopeto tasked him to paint “Adoration of the Magi.” The young artist, however, would leave the city and abandon both commissions

In June of 1937, Pablo Picasso completed what some consider to be one of the most influential pieces of artwork ever created, Guernica. The piece was commissioned by the Spanish Republican government for an international exhibition in Paris. Originally Picasso had a completely different subject in mind, but on April 26, the revered Spanish town of Guernica became the first occupied civilian center decimated by carpet bombs. The complete and total destruction of the ancient and honored Spanish town

Two of the most extensively analyzed works of art are Diego Velasquez's Las Meninas and Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini Double Portrait. Both of these artist's talent won them recognition not only during their lifetime but after as well. Both Velasquez and Van Eyck have a justly earned title as the most talented artists of their respective times. A detailed examination of the details and intricacies of these artist's respective masterpieces, their similarities, and what sets them apart not just from

In the beginning period of Romanticism, subjectivity and intuition began to emerge and the movement started to affect people's ideas. Caspar David Friedrich's artwork was essential to intensifying and really dissecting the idea of what Romanticism was. It gave a different light to natural philosophy as well as pushing the boundaries to the subject work of art. Up until the Romantic period the subject matter of art was that of neoclassical, a feel of personal integrity and nobility of character