Essays on Baby Jesus

Francesco Bassano’s "The Adoration of the Magi" presents a 16th century depiction of the birth of Jesus and the presentation of gifts to him by the wise men that is accounted in the Bible. The elegant dress of these individuals is made even more exotic by the the way that their bright colors are contrasted with the otherwise dim and dreary atmosphere. The magi, baby Jesus, and Mary are all the primary focus of the picture and demonstrate the homage that the wise men paid to the young savior. Oil on canvas was used in order to depict ...

Though the settings differ substantially, the theme of love is clear both in “The Greatest Thing since Sliced Bread” and “The Gift of Magi,” through the author’s use of character, style and point of view. The book "The greatest thing since sliced bread" by Don Robertson and Gift of Magi are used to expound themes of love even though the two have different settings. The authors have employed the use of characters, point of view and style to bring out the theme of love. Gift of magi is a book concerning a couple and has inspired many readers ...

- Robert Campin, Merode Altarpiece- embraces the use of oil on oak panel. Thus, the artist uses objects from the material world. These objects symbolize spiritual ideas. It was done in Northern renaissance or Flemish style

- Jan van Eyck, Arnolfin & His Wife. The materials used are oil on oak. The portrait is that of Giovanni and his wife Cenami standing side by side in a bridal chamber. He is holding the hand of his wife. It was done in Northern renaissance or Flemish style.

- Jan Van Eyck, Man in a Red Turban. It is a portrait of a man in a ...

Introduction

Renaissance art includes the sculpture, painting, and decorative art of the time of European history known as the Renaissances. It has to emerge as a distinct style of about 1400 in Italy. The art gives the perception of royalty of the ancient traditions. In the LACMA, many paintings have used Renaissance art. This paper focuses on "Tommaso - Virgin adoring the Christ child with St. John the Baptist and two angels" from LACMA. The artwork is of lots of significances to Christian as it shows the Virgin Mary appreciating his baby Jesus. John the Baptist and the two angels ...

Tiziano Vecellio native of Pieve di Cadore (1480/1485), but Venetian by choice, has reached precocious stardom when, little more than a adolescent, worked with Giorgione in the decoration of the facade of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi. He soon became a painter sought by important personalities such as Francis I, Charles V, Philip II, the Duke of Mantua and Urbino, the Duke of Ferrara and Pope Paul III. His ongoing research and its persistent renew, certainly due to the strong consensus, to the honor and the celebrities, has kept his pictorial vein always fresh, almost inexhaustible. The development of his painting has been ...

King Herod lived at a time when the Jews were under the rule of the Romans. This meant that his kingdom had strong influences form their Roman rulers. Herod embraced the Romanicization of his cities into commercial hubs. This flew in the face of Jewish expectations of a city built to the utopist standards of fairness recommended in Jewish teachings. Herod acquired his expansive kingdom through violence in a series of takeovers that were endorsed by Rome. He started by freeing his family and dethroning their arch rivals the powerful Hasmonean. Thereafter, he ran a successful offensive against all cities that were in opposition ...

Colors, character’s position, their attitude, their dress code, their faces, the lights, the backgrounds represent stylistic tools that both Nicolas Poussin and Isak van Ostade use for expressing a meaning. They use all these elements as metaphors, symbols for their understanding of the family life. While Poussin reflects at the purity and chastity of the Holy Family, focusing on the infant Jesus Christ and his mother Maria for emphasizing the idea of how a normal, loving family should look like, Isak van Ostade targets other specificities of human kind, representing another side of humans, which is cruelty, vulgarity, and savage, ...

12 July 2011

The Alba Madonna by Raphael Sanzio

Raphael Sanzio’s The Alba Madonna was painted in 1511 and depicts an image of Mary, the baby Jesus and John the Baptist (as a child) sat in a countryside scene. In the painting, John the Baptist is holding up a cross to Jesus who, in turn, grips it whilst all three figures assert their attention towards the cross. The painting appears to be making some kind of prophetic statement with regard to the future of Jesus Chris and the attention of the three figures emphasises this somewhat. The immediate reaction to the painting is that traditionally, Jesus and ...