Annibale Carracci

You know those pictures that look like you could just jump right into, well the Flight into Egypt is one of those paintings. Annibale Carracci has so much detail packed into this painting. There are two main figures, along with a donkey. Off in the distance one can see a castle like piece of architecture, on a hill. There then is a path that leads to a river, with a canoe and another figure. The river is very realistic because of the reflections that are painted in, this goes for every part of this

The Adoration of Saints Baroque is important in regards of European philosophical art history, generating identifiable and stylistic changes in: painting, sculpture and architecture throughout the periods of the late sixteenth century to the early eighteenth. Dominant particularly in the regions of southern Europe such as: Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austria and southern Germany. Baroque is a stylistic movement that often exaggerated motion to: illustrate drama, tension and grandeur features such as

Upon walking into Gallery 250 of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, one will find on the wall a particularly eye-catching piece of art. The piece, set high on the corner of the wall encompassed by pictures depicting scenes from the life of Jesus Christ, is Giulio Cesare Procaccini's The Scourging of Christ. In this piece, Procaccini's masterful use of light and shadows in a technique called chiaroscuro dramatically portray the torturing of Christ, and it is this very application of chiaroscuro that immediately

The Pantheon introduction This essay will show you the development of architecture over the years, and the influence it has had on modern day design. The influence this design has had from 2000 years ago, on our modern day designs is shown in the follow extracts. We will also look at how the design and architecture of the pantheon had an influence on the buildings that were built at a later stage through time. The Pantheon is a circular building with a portico of large granite columns after 2000

 Still, out of all of the artists of the time, Martin believed that Carracci was the one who "rescued painting from its sorry plight."  Martin believed that Caravaggio was a great naturalist during the Baroque and he contributed to the trend of the time.  Caravaggio's chiaroscuro throughout most of his works enabled

concerning Hercules is his choice between virtue and vice, one of the most prominent depictions of this myth is Annibale Carracci’s ‘The Choice of Hercules’, C.1596, an oil on canvas painting. This work was commissioned by Cardinal Odoardo Farnese for the ceiling of his Camerino in Rome’s Palazzo Farnese and is now on display in Capodimonte Gallery, Naples, Italy It is deemed one Annibale Carracci’s finest pieces of work due to its perfect representation of the classical subject. The painting tells

 Furthermore, his paintings "speak to us more personally and more poignantly than any others of the time."  Caravaggio is an artist whose life was far different from all other contemporary artists of his time, or any time.  Unlike Annibale Carracci, Caravaggio's works were able to express many of his own feelings and emotions.  As Hibbard says, Caravaggio was an artist who "somehow cut through the artistic conventions

BAROQUE ART Art Appreciation –HUMA 205-1202A-05 Janice Miller AIU Abstract Baroque art is presented as an art style. Baroque art style is such diversity within in the Baroque period 1600-1770 because of the relationship to the era’s border and intellectual tendencies there was three important effects on the art. Which are, western Christianity, religious tensions, and the division of the Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. The Baroque artist appealed to their viewer

On November 4th, 1575, Guido Reni was born in Bologna to Daniele Reni and Ginevra de’ Pozzi. At the age of twenty, Reni began attending the Accademia degli Incamminati, and later went on to join the Bolognese School created by Annibale Carracci and his family members. The Bolognese School, also known as “The Academy of those on the Path” aimed to revise the artificiality of the artwork of the time in order to create a new style. This new style focused on trying to communicate with the viewer and

This piece of artwork is called ‘Judith Beheading Holofernes’, which was created by Caravaggio in the late 16th century in Rome. It was a type of oil painting on canvas, also, a piece of artwork in the period of Baroque. Briefly, Hood stated that in this artwork, it told the story in Biblical story of Judith, dressed as a well-born Renaissance young lady, standing at a safe distance, and who was saved her people by beheading and seducing the Assyrian general Holofernes, which was a theme very common