Giorgione

Early Renaissance to High Renaissance The Renaissance is the period that immediately follows the Middle Ages in Europe ancient Rome and Greece. Growing prosperity and reduction in political stability accompanied by new technologies, the printing press, astronomy and the exploration and discovery of new continents was supplemented by a blossoming of philosophy, literature, and art. Painting style, decorative arts, and sculpture arose in Italy in the 14th century, reached its peak in the late 15th

The unconscious mind seeks to pacify the destructive nature of primitive thoughts as a threat to the order of society. Throughout history, this repression of primitive instincts are brought to surface in artworks especially in societies where sex is a taboo subject. This is done through sublimation; the defense mechanism of re-modelling natural impulses and energy externally through socially acceptable means. In psychoanalysis, theories of Sigmund Freud support the concept that sexual energy can

“How a partial biography could be harmful for a painter? Lorenzo Lotto’s peripatetic career in Vasari’s Lives” (I still need a better title) Why do we read Vasari’s Lives? Surely not for the historical accuracy of the data he provides us nor for his scientific approach to the artist’s biographies. We read what we consider a masterpiece of Italian literature mainly because, instead of concentrating on long tedious enumeration, exegetical and philological details or monotonous galleries of portraits

Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) was born in Pieve di Cadore, a small town at the foot of the Dolomites on the Venetian side of the Alps. The Vecellio's had been based in Cadore since the 14th century. Titian’s father, Gregorio, was a military man. His older brother Francesco was also a painter. There is still no documentary evidence of Titian’s exact date of birth, but contemporary sources and his early stylistic development suggest that he was born around 1490. Titian was a painter who painted famous

end of their life. Heade’s still-life painting was celebrated during the artist’s lifetime for their deceivingly life-like perfection and realism (TAM, 2017). The texture of Edmund Charles Tarbell and Martin Johnson Heade painting can be liken to Giorgione and Titian Venetian High Renaissance element of painting (H. Sayre, 2011, pp

on canvas. Realism → Impressionism. Created in his early career, at age 31 Manet was influenced by the works of the “Old Masters.” i.e. Italian Renaissance painting, an engraving based on a classical Roman sarcophagus, and Diana Bathing Titan or Giorgione. The Pastoral Concert. Oil on canvas. Italian Renaissance. The painting features two nude women in front of two clothed men, playing music. naked women and clothed men in Luncheon on the Grass Marcantonio Raimondi, after Raphael. The Judgement of

Cadore. “When Titian was nine he went to Venice with his brother, Francesco, to live there with an uncle and to become a helper for Sebastiano Zuccato” (Harold). When Titian was a teen he worked with Sebastiano Zuccato his uncle, Giovanni Bellini and Giorgione before he became a solo artist. When Titan was older he painted portraits and other paintings for Pope Paul III, King Philip II of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. In 1516 Titian worked on his first huge project for a church named Santa

The Rokeby Venus Diego Velazquez was the leading figure during the era of Spanish Baroque art. He surpassed other skilled artists in genre and portrait paintings to gain a place in King Philip the IV’s Spanish Court. During the time of Philip IV’s ruling (1605-1665) Spain was a strong advocate for Catholic counter-reformation art in a desire to halt the spread of Protestantism. As a result of Spain’s support for this approach to art, Spanish artwork at this time was massively influenced by religious

The Venetian Renaissance style is different and yet similar in many ways to the Late Renaissance period for a number of reasons: Location, as Venice is located so far from Rome and Florence. Being located along the open water-ways, Venice literally became this massive number of small islands that were inter-connected through waterways, and these islands were both self-reliant but also needed each other to create bridges and canals. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Venice suffered numerous

Giorgione uses his colors as a distinct separation between items and subjects. Ware as Tintoretto’s colors are more varied and mark each subject distinctively but still do more to connect then to separate. Giorgione’s subjects and colors project calm and poise