Essays on Michelangelo

Bust of Alexander the Great

Elements of Art Since the artwork is a sculpture, the lines are considered as three-dimensional. Moreover, contour lines are used to define space, which can be seen as its edges provided depth. Its form can be defined with height, width, and depth, but the shape is non-geometric as the artwork resembled a face. It has a light value, because the material used is marble which is white in color with high intensity. By looking at the artwork, smoothness can be felt as if one touches a real face.

Principles of Art

A high sense of balance can be depicted in the artwork. ...

People of Renaissance had a fully-fledged and multi-faceted life and attained a high degree of perfection at the same time in different areas of knowledge and art. The aim of this paper is to review the life of one of Italy’s Renaissance men, Benvenuto Cellini and a review of his early work. The best prime years of his work as an artist were the years in which he sculpted the colossal bronze statue of Perseus. According to ancient Greek mythology, Perseus was the son of Zeus, Lord of the Olympian gods, who was attracted by the beauty of ...

The statue of David was made by three legendary sculptures, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Bernini. It is also evident that all the three artists were (chronologically) referred to be the greatest artists of the renaissance period. All the three artists used their own interpretation and ideology to create their version of the David of Israel who killed the Goliath with only a stone and a swirl in his hands (Hauger, 1). Hence, the representation of David by all the three artists is intended to depict the heroic deed and character of David.

Comparing the 3 versions of David

In spite of the various differences between the ...

Borngasser, B., 2003. The Architecture of the Baroque. In: R. Toman, ed. 2003. Baroque and Rococo: architecture, painting, sculpture. Berlin: Feierabend.

Burroughs, C., 1998. Grammar and expression in early Renaissance architecture: Brunelleschi and Alberti. RES: Antropology and Aesthetics, 34, pp. 39-63.

A well known architectural historian, Burroughs, examines in his article two greats of early Renaissance architecture. Both Brunelleschi and Alberti greatly influenced architects of the following generations and they are still considered two of the most important people in the field of all time. The author examines not only their careers, but also their writings, works, ...

Renaissance refers to the process of rebirth and it took place in many ways. Dating back to 1350, parts of Northern Italy experience the beginning of this rebirth process. It took place after the country underwent a period of ravaging from the Black Death, which swept away a third of the Italian population. Among the earliest pieces that represent the renaissance took the form of art and architecture. In the art, literature also appeared as a form of presenting this new birth. Decameron by Giovanni presented the renaissance in literature between 1313 and 1370. It presented the tale of men who escaped ...

Introduction

"I think Italian cinema is one of the most creative contributions modern Italy has made to 20th century culture" (Bondanella,qtd. Karl, 54). This quote features in most of the scholarly works that discusses the impacts of Italian cinema on today’s film. A common opinion seems to be the fact that “recent films that people watch are the same: they talk about girls or boys growing up, vacations of the mentally impaired, and couples having crisis,” social issues such as crime, unemployment, and class bias among other similar topics (Hake, pp. 23-25). Most of the ...

Italian Renaissance in the 15th Century: Funeral Monument of John XXIII by Donatello

Italian renaissance marks a period of rebirth and renewal in the interest of culture. This period was after the dark ages and lasted from the 14th to the 15th Century (Gardener et al. 14). During this period, Donatello was one of the best skilled artists. Donatello was an Italian sculptor (1386-1466) (Gardener et al. 14). Donatello designs the funeral monument to the anti-pope John XXIII and positions it between two columns inside the baptistery. The style of the work is classical antiquity and reflects the grandest Italian tomb in the medieval times. Donatello retains considerable elements of classical antiquity. The ...

I have read so much about the struggle of the idea with form that at one point, I simply could not restrain myself. Why is there such vitality in this topic? It is appropriate to recall Socrates with his definition of concepts and Parmenides with his opinions, but the most basic - look at ourselves, what we like is not the essence of which lies in the form of an idea? What is more important? Why? For what? For whom? What for? At different times philosophers have tried to define the essence of art, to understand what it is. ...

The story of the biblical hero David and his battle against the giant Golliath was very popular among Italian Renaissance and Baroque artists. Four great artists of the two periods have created statues with this theme. Each of these represents the genius of the artist and the ideals of the period during which it was created. Donatello’s David is the earliest, created in c. 1428-1432 (Tansey and Kleiner, 688). Verrocchio’s sculpture was made in c. 1465-1470 (Tansey and Kleiner, 715). Both belong to the Early Renaissance. Michelangelo’s David is part of the High Renaissance, created in ...

It is always interesting to be able to compare two works of art with the same subject but from different artists and different periods in the history of art. The two statues of David, created by Michelangelo and Bernini, the first in 1504 and the second in 1625 provide an excellent opportunity to compare and contrast not only the styles of the individual artists, but also the styles of the Renaissance and the Baroque respectively.

Chronologically, Michelangelo and his David are older and will therefore be considered first. Michelangelo was one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance and ...

David is one of the renaissance arts that were made by Michelangelo during the renaissance period. The sculpture of David by Michelangelo was made between 1501 and 1504. The art by Michelangelo represented the culture of heroism. It represented one of the kings found in the bible. However, the sculpture later represented the liberty that was found in the state of Florentine. This art can be found in the museum of fine arts. This museum is found in Houston. Persian miniature was a work of art that was famous in china between 13th to 16th centuries. The origin of ...

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Political — Pablo Picasso “Guernica” (1937). Twentieth Century. Spain. Pablo Picasso was an artist best known for Cubism. He evokes powerful narratives in his work despite the fact that his paintings and murals are often non-realist in style. Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” is a good example of political art. The work is a mural and it was created in the twentieth century in Spain. The mural tells a story. It is an example of narrative art. The mural depicts the suffering people experienced during the Spanish Civil War. The Fascists had bombed the small town of Guernica. The ...

The poem “Annabelle Lee” makes me feel sad that the time these lovers had together was cut short by Annabelle Lee’s illness. The poem talks about a love that even the angels covet. Even though Annabelle Lee is now dead, the author of the poem still loves Annabelle Lee just as much as when she was living. The fact that Annabelle Lee’s lover sleeps by her grave every night makes me wish I had someone who loves me that much. The author is so determined to stay with Annabelle Lee that he says neither angels nor demons can ...

The High Renaissance is the classical period of the artistic Renaissance culture. At this time, the center of Italian art moved from Florence to Rome. There are numerous monumental buildings, sculptures, frescoes and paintings created in this period. Antiquity now being studied more thoroughly and is reproduced more strictly and consistently. Artists with greater ingenuity and imagination are reassessing and transforming all that is considered appropriate to borrow in from the Greco-Roman art. This period is associated primarily with the names of three brilliant artists of the Renaissance: Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, as well as with ...

Hellenistic Greece

Hellenistic Greece is the period between 323 BC and 30 BC. This is the period that marks by diminishing of the Greeks’ dominance and prosperity before the Roman Empire. This is when the influence Alexander on Greeks came to an end due to his death. After the death of Alexander, Roman Empire took over dispersing the Greeks. Hellenistic culture originated when the Greeks mixed with other cultures especially from the Asia and Middle East. One of the notable arts of this age is the Venus de Milo (Kousser, 4). This is a piece of architecture sculpture of a woman with no ...

One of the most popular Baroque artists was Caravaggio. Look at it his painting of Biblical hero David and Goliath, and consider and answer the following questions:

Question 1

What point in the story of David and Goliath does Caravaggio choose to focus on? How does this compare to the images of David made by Donatello, Michelangelo, and / or Bernini?

Response 1

Caravaggio chose to focus on the moment of victory as David defeated Goliath, and it is focused on both David and Goliath. David’s victory transformed him from a shy boy to a strong man. One thing that is unique about the famous ...

Introduction

The characters of Dante and St. Francis represent the changes that were occurring in the emergence of Romanticism. The Hero lives in a world that is created by his destiny and the hero makes use of his skills to overcome barriers to his goals of self-achievement. The Romantic hero was quite different from the typical hero and always stood outside the norms of the society. He questions the standards of the society and gets alienated in the process. Dante gives a good example of romanticism in The Divine Comedy, where the lead character struggles against society and achieves unity with God ...

Medici played a significant role not only in politics, but also in the cultural life of Europe of their time. Like other wealthy and influential people, they ordered a work of art for the greater glory of themselves, their family, of the city and God. Under the influence of the new ideas of the Renaissance, Medici saw in the artists not only artisans. They were interested not only on a beautiful pieces and its content, but also on its creator. Not by chance, as an example of Renaissance patron relationship to the artist, Cosimo the Elder quoted words of Filippo Lippi. Monk ...

David the hero

Introduction The three varying representations of David by the different artists who lived in different ages are all based on the biblical character of the Old Testament. The sculptures represent three crucial phases of Italian Renaissance during which the artists created them. All artists represented different moments in David's heroic role of killing Goliath with a sling and rock. Donatello and Michelangelo presented their sculptures completely nude vividly enhancing their mastery in body contours and proportion. All sculptures are found in Italy where the ancient artists lived. This study seeks to explore the various emotions and attitude on David ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti and Gianlorenzo Bernini are among the best known artist who curved the statue of David. Michelangelo’s Statue of David is thought to come its completion at around 1504 (Lieberman, Ralph, 11). This is the most acknowledge works of the high Renaissance Period. On the other hand Benini’s David is thought to come to its completion at around 1623-1624. This is one of the sculpture that was fourth to be commissioned as life sized statue by Cardinal Borghese. It is therefore worth examining the two statues of David brought by the two artists to find out ...

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (“Prufrock”) was first published in the June 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse (“Poetry”). It was written by American-British poet T. S. Eliot (“Eliot”) (1888–1965). Eliot first started work on the poem in February, 1910. As the Overseas Editor of Poetry, Erza Pound (“Pound”) had instigated the whole business (n.a., n.d., “Bio,” 2014; and McCoy, 1992). Prufrock has been studied by many, many talented scholars. In fact, what makes it such an outstanding piece of poetry is the fact that people can read so many meanings into it. ...

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 ...

Introduction

This essay has the objective of providing an argument that contemporary pop culture is composed of aspects of carnivalesque, which can establish a gap for social and cultural opposition and misdemeanor. Nevertheless, it is important to make a note of how it is limited to modernity. This essay will outline the confines as well as the elements of carnival Middles Ages from Bakhtin’s cultural theory view and the main transformations in society since Renaissance. Authors such as Francois Rabelais and Mary Russo will be used to expound on the theories of carnivalesque, celebration of the lower body, ‘grotesque body’ and ...

Theodore Gericault’s The Raft of Medusa is a canonical piece of art created in the early 19th century – in the wake of Romanticism in France. Romanticism was not a style, nor was it a manifestation of a singular idea. Instead, Romanticism was a movement, characterized by artists’ transfer of personality and mind onto their painting, including social criticism in the best way it could be presented in an art work. French Romanticism closely followed the Neoclassical movement, which explains Gericault’s being strongly influenced by Michelangelo’s work (Durbin). Many critics also stated that the painting was influenced by the work of ...

Andrea Pozzo is an architect, decorator, art theoretician and a stage designer as well. Pozzo was best known in architecture and were the producer of the nave ceiling of the church of Sant’lgnazio. The article produced by Pozzo talks about a Saint Ignatius who went to heaven and the images of the saints description are provided. The Sistine chapel in the Vatican City is a renowned chapel in the palace of Apostolic (Gardener et al 78). This chapel is said to be the Pope’s residence in the city of Vatican. The Sistine chapel is also said to be a place where ...

The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti is deemed immensely interesting and dynamic. One aspect of his life found fascinating was the fact that he was pegged by Pope Julius II as ‘terrible’. His character and personality was depicted as significantly rude and brusque which allegedly contributed to the inability to establish social bonds. Concurrently, another interesting facet of his life was the fondness reportedly developed with Vittoria Colonna who was described as a poet. Despite the pictured preference for a solitary life, the camaraderie established with Vittoria exhibited the need for man to socialize with another human being. As learned, only friends ...

Book review: The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

During 1400 to 1600, the remarkable development in European society in the fields of art, politics, philosophy, and, culture is Renaissance. French historian Jules Michelet claimed Renaissance as a French phenomenon but, as per Swiss academic Jacob Burckhardt, birth place of modern world is Italy. From the mythological explanation of the evolution of Europe to the meaning of Renaissance according to Jules Michelet, Jacob Burckhardt, Walter Peter, Erwin Panofsky, Stephen Greenblatt, `The Renaissance Bazaar` is an analytical history of the evolution of Renaissance and explains how the interactions between the east and the west through trade and exchanges influenced the ...

Michelangelo has been studied as a think tank of art ever since he painted master illustrations that nurtured the style of renaissance period. It should be noted that he brought the concept of man as a subject of art work that generated a lot of debate during the era of renaissance period. Sistine Chapel Ceiling includes illustrations shows mere interest in men as Michelangelo claimed that men brought the beauty of world together. Sistine Chapel Ceiling is the art work that has been selected for the purpose of evaluation in this paper. In addition, a discussion will be carried out in accordance to ...

Question 1: what is the Renaissance? Include in your response that which the renaissance is not.

Renaissance is a term that simply denotes “New birth” of a “Re-birth”. The term is used to describe the period between 14th and 16th century during which major revival of intellect and classical art that took place in ancient Rome and Greek during the Middle Ages. During this time, the literature, philosophy, architecture, art, and science that emerged in Europe changed the views and perspective in such a way that Europe was re-born. Normally, history is divided into three major ages; ancient Europe-classical age, medieval, age-middle age, and the modern age. Renaissance took place during the Middle Age when Europeans began imitating ...

In human history, few pandemics can be compared to the Back Death. This pandemic took place between the years of 1346 and 1353 in Europe, killing between 75 and 200 million people. To date, there is no theory about the causal agents of the pandemic. However, research indicates that Yersinia pestis bacterium was the responsible pathogen for such mass deaths, causing many forms of plague. The origin of the Black Death is believed to be Central Asia’s arid plains, travelling along the Silk Road to reach Crimea by 1343. It was then carried by oriental rat fleas ...

Renaissance and Baroque – are two remarkable styles in architecture, which are bounded inextricably. For better understanding these two styles, their derivation and connection it is worth to begin with the first of them – Renaissance. The beginning of Renaissance started in 15th century. There is a version of the derivation of Renaissance in Italy. It was a contest on the best bronze relief for Baptistery in Florence in 1401. Two failed participants - Filippo Brunelleschi and Donatello considered the results of the contest unjust and left for Rome to explore the ancient ruins of the city. Their aim was to find ...

Michelangelo began in 1508 the Sistine Chapel and in a period of 4 years he painted the ancestors of Christ, the Old Testament Prophets and the pagan Sibyls. He included the Old Testament heroes and leaders defeating enemies of Faith. In 1530 he painted the Last Judgment on the altar wall. The complete work of the Sistine Chapel of Michelangelo shows a complete world history from the very beginning of Creation, the Old Testament including the Prophets and Moses, the pagan world all the way to the Life of Christ and Peter, including the history of the Church portraying the great ...

Introduction:

Baroque art and literature are important characteristics of the human being and personify beauty in several ways. There have been several artists who came out with various beautiful works such as Michelangelo, Bernini from Italy as well as French ones such as Fragonard and Boucher although the latter correspond more to the classical period. In ‘The Theatrical Illusion’, the author discusses several terms as length and one can observe a certain sense of exuberance in the works of Bernini for example whilst the portrayals of Michelangelo especially in his 'Pieta‘ series conveys a sense of contrast between the pain of suffering ...

Introduction:

The Baroque period was an important one for artists and architects since the aspect of perspective came into being. Perhaps one of the greatest exponents of baroque architecture was Bernini with his incredible work in the design of the Vatican dome and churches in the vicinity. The link between God and humanity is thus immediately apparent especially in the works which we see at the Sistine Chapel where Michelangelo surpassed himself especially in what can be termed as his greatest painting work which is The Creation of Adam and which has been immortalized the world over (Bazin, 1964, p 35).

Comparison between Renaissance and Baroque

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Literary Criticism of T. S. Eliot’s Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

Introduction

The poem Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock feels as fresh to the readers now as it did to Ezra Pound when he first read it. Among other traits, Prufrock exhibits qualities of a characteristic example of modernism in literature, a literary work from the era of literary history that stood towering for its capability for never repeating the same act twice. The poem is a great example of characteristic qualities of modernist poetry namely fragmentation, montage and objective correlative. The narrator T.S. Eliot’s Love Song of J ...

The Renaissance period refers to the era in history that occurred around 1400 through to the sixteenth century. This era came immediately after the middle Ages. Its trends reflected classical antiquity in science, music, literature and philosophy. It would be right to say that this era was initially noted in Italy and was common in Europe. The style also incorporated innovations of emerging trends as time passed and this form of art came to be known as Renaissance art. The foundation of this art was traditional royalties. The works of artists in this period so strongly created a culture of ...

The poet, Eliot, reflects on the masterpieces of the Modernist Movement that shows the character traits of Modernism. Eliot the modernist poet, experiments with the structure and form of the poem. This shows him to be experimental as well as innovative. The “Love Song” was indeed an innovation technically and it was intrigued by the idiom and the broken sequences of the French symbolist. The poem is unique in various senses. It proclaims a complete break with the traditional valuation of poetry as something serious (Sarker, 57). The main theme of this poem is paralysis. The root of paralysis ...

Many talented artists lived during the Renaissance period in Italy. For example, Andrea del Verrocchio, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Benozzo Gozzoli, Carlo Crivelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Pisanello, Donatello and others. One of the great artists of this period is Raphael, who created numerous great works, which are still valued highly all over the world. His artworks are the reflection of his great artistic talent that will never die. He is considered as one of the famous artists of all time, who made a contribution to the development of art. Today, Raphael’s works can be found in almost all museums all ...

The Drawing Technique of Leonardo Da Vinci

Drawing is a form of expression in the study of visual arts. An artist marks lines and areas on the paper to express the visual world on the surface. Most of the traditional artists used monochromes in their plane surface, unlike the modern artists, apply a wide variety of colors. There is a difference between drawing and painting. In the painting, the artist uses liquid paint and applies onto a canvas or a panel while drawing uses dry media such as chalk. Drawing is a form of composition to pass on a message and solve problems. Some artists often use studies to draw objects then paint ...

Describe two artworks you have seen in person

Michelangelo’s David has often been termed as one of art-history’s most remarkable masterpieces. It is a depiction of David before the battle with Goliath. Numerous visitors from all over the world have travelled to Florence to experience the 500-year-old sculpture. Undoubtedly, the sculpture holds timeless appeal. David was sculpted in 1501 from a block of leftover marble. The sculpture is an oddity in that the upper body and head are not in proportion with the rest of the body. This is unlike the Renaissance age and style of art which embodied an obsession with harmony of proportion and form ( ...

For the final project I will present and analyze two famous Renaissance artworks: Michelangelo Buonarroti’s “ The Creation of Adam” and Lucas Cranach’s “Paradise”. Both of them were painted in approximately same time and belong to the same artistic epoque. Still both are very original and significant for the history of Art. The decision to compare these two works, which will be central for this essay, came to me with a thought that both of them represent the same artistic wave, show the flow of humanist ideas, and include religious characters, but at the same time they are completely ...

The work of humanist scholars as well as the renewed interest in classical learning was the greatest influence of the Italian Renaissance. The term renaissance in Italian means rebirth, and the Italian renaissance era is best known for the renewed interest in the culture of renewed classical antiquity after the period that the rebirth humanists referred to as the Dark Ages (Ben-Ezra, p. 230). The influence of these humanists greatly shaped the Renaissance writing, thinkers, art, and education because of the fact that the humanism ideas were spread across all aspects of life (Raadt, p. 511). More specifically, humanism ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti’s Creation of Adam and Lucas Cranach’s Paradise are famous works painted in approximately the same time. Still both of them are very original and significant for the history of Art. Comparing these two famous artworks will be central for this essay. Painting of the creation of Adam belongs to an Italian painter Michelangelo Buonarroti. It was carried out as a part of a series of ceiling frescos for the Sistine Chapel in Vatican, Rome. It was completed in 1510-1512 and its sizes are 280x570 cm. The painting illustrates a famous scene from the Bible, the book of ...

Change in the ecstasy conception of Hero and saint in the materialization of Romanticism are seen in the characters of St. Francis and Dante. The Hero reveals on how worldview which the humanist are leading a money-oriented life. The distant forces of fate necessities destiny and indifference of human desires forms the world. The Hero finds his way to self-efficiency and goals of self-achievement right through the success and skills, and overcoming the difficulties in order to conduct his fate wholly and perfectly (Stone). Conversely, the Saint put emphasis on diverse judgment of the way of life. Saint’s ...

Question 1

The Renaissance is the period of the emergence of the individual artist and of art becoming more and more realistic. This was the result of intellectual achievement in other cultural fields which led to the creation of a new philosophy surrounding the arts (Getlein, 378). Renaissance blossomed in both Italy and the North of Europe. There are however significant differences between the art produced in those two areas. Robert Campin’s Merode Altarpiece (figure 16.17 in Getlein) from 1426 is typical of the extensive attention to detail the Northern artists paid. The picture is full of details, some of ...

Cultural Ideology and Art - Framing a Cultural Ideology Based on Societal Practices

Introduction Cultural ideology and art based on societal practices looks at social production, cultural autonomy, theories, as well as late capitalism. The underpinnings of the academic exploration of this subject take into consideration art and culture as part of a dominant ideology as well as aesthetic autonomy. In this academic exercise answering these and other structured inquiry presented in this discourse, engage further considerations of the course texts of Halley, Halley, Halley, Valdez, and Nava as well as others in this field of cultural studies. In addition, this academic exploration and discourse offers examples from the texts of specific ...

Introduction

Caravaggio, also known as Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived between the 1571 and 1610. He is recognized as the paramount and the most prominent artist of the Baroque style. Despite of being connected to controversies of scandalous lifestyle, Caravaggio was a genius of artistic work that has won his position in not only history of art but also in the contemporary imagination. It is due to this that his contributions were forgotten until 20th century that his contribution to the development of Baroque style among other Western art (Cable, p.55). Baroque is an Italian style that was developed in ...

Compare Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow (figure 16.14 on page 260) with Whispering Pines on a Mountain Path by Tang Yin

Coldness and the desire to go inside to rest next to a burning fire is a sensation that reveals from Bruegel’s painting “Hunters in the Snow”, combined with the vivid desire to stay out and enjoy the excitement of winter, facing the cold. This is an antagonist view portrayed by Bruegel who surprises the winter season with its hardships and its joys: while some men and their dogs are coming back from hunting tired and seemingly dull, for having a small capture (solely a rabid seems to have been hunted) a group of women are in charge with their daily tasks, but they ...

I have studied in college for a couple of years so far and as the time passes – more and more I start to realize that education is the key in being successful In the future. Without higher education – It will be very difficult to get a well-paid job, job that you would like, and eventually “find your place under the sun”. I am really glad that my parents brought me up this way and in fact, they convinced me to study in college. Anyways, in high school you are completely blank on any intensions or certain goals whilst studying classes, after ...

Module

Response to Reading For the greatest part of the historic period prior to 1800, visual culture was informed by the Classical traditions of Ancient Greece and Rome. The ideal of Classical antiquity set the norm for how art should be made and how it should be experienced. In this respect, particular evaluative standards about what is appropriate visual culture existed linking it to the Classical ideal and excluding everything else. The modern period saw the re examination of these values and contemporary visual culture specialists have expanded the field in order to include not only the traditional artistic ...

Classical Art styles were instrumental in the development of early Christian art.When one looks at the time periods when religious artwork was at its height of popularity, the majority of people were illiterate. At these times, religious themed art would have been instrumental in teaching common people about the lessons and stories of the bible/ One if the greatest examples of well know religious paintings is Michelangelo’s works on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo’s brilliant work featured nine different scenes from the biblical book of Genesis. Each figure is a fine example of Michelangelo’s ...

A brief overview

ART AND ARCHITECTURE 2 Abstract Since time immemorial, man has always craved for expressing himself through various media like art, music, dance and literature. In a way, all the forms through which man conveys his creativity and ideas can be categorised under the huge canopy of being ‘art’. Visual arts include the paintings, sculpture, film making, printmaking, street art, photography and several other art forms which are a source of both entertainment and inspiration for people. Architecture includes making of certain objects or buildings in an artistic as well as planned manner. This essay gives a brief overview of several ...

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni simply known as Michelangelo is arguably one of the greatest artists ever. He was a painter and a sculptor by profession. Born in the 1470s in Caprese, Michelangelo followed his passion to become one of the greatest artists of his time. His influence was not only felt in the religious world but he also influenced both the western culture and political being at his time. During his lifetime, he made some of the world’s most famous sculptors and paintings. He also wrote poems and sonnets that have been inspirational to many even today. His contributions ...

The Renaissance produced a wide range of influential artists, many of whom are lauded as the most talented artists of all time. However, the long-lasting influence of the Renaissance lies in the successors of the most famous Renaissance artists, such as Bernini. Bernini came into his own during the ending years of the Renaissance, and his new sculptural and architectural techniques helped to usher in the Baroque era of art and architecture. Bernini was an Italian, and was fortunate enough to be born into an era in which his skill as an artist and architect was both encouraged and supported ...

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the world’s most recognized artist (and scientist). His works of art are stamps of the Renaissance period and of the themes that characterized those times. Da Vinci’s style, however, had its unique traits, that made him stand out from the rest of his period colleagues and give way to new art movements inside this History period. He used oil painting in ways that would emphasize and embellish details, like luminosity and transparency on the skin, higher shine of depicted jewelry and silkiness on hair. On his painting he has also ...

Michelangelo was an Italian architect, sculptor and painter among other things. This was during the renaissance period, a time when there was immense cultural transformation and accomplishment. That alone speaks volumes on the artist. However, what makes Michelangelo worth consideration as a great artist is his works and his contribution to art in general. His skills as an artist are respected by admirers and critics alike, some even his name is synonymous to genius (Muntz, 8). His genius is evident from the fact that his abilities were spread over several genres of art including painting, sculpturing, poetry, architecture and engineering. ...

The Renaissance period began in the middle of the destruction of the Black Death, where the most effected part in Europe was Italy. During the Renaissance Period art, literature, and the human living was boosted and given much significance. Renaissance brought extreme change more in Italy, than other areas of Europe. Dramatic changes were found in the renewal of classical art and literature. The entire Renaissance era can be divided into three phases: first from 1350 to 1400 where historical texts were discovered and a new approach was given to art, second phase from 1400 to 1500 which brought development ...

Classic English Literature

Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was first published in a poetry magazine in 1915. Later Eliot published other poems in the 20th century for which he was awarded The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. This poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a contemporary poem because it was written when Britain was considered among the modern countries of the world. This was before the beginning of World War I. It is narrated in a dramatic monologue where we find the speaker very unhappy and in mental agony. The poem became a master piece because its ...

Art and Architecture

The Representation of David in the Sculpture by Bernini

Gina Lorenzo Bernini was born in Italy in 1598. His artistic talents were recognized when he was very young. Lubow (2008) reports that Bernini was only eight years old when he “carved a stone head that was ‘the marvel of everyone’ who saw it” (p. 77). Throughout Bernini’s life he accomplished great works of art, including paintings, sculptures and the creation of great fountains throughout Rome. Bernini was always involved with making art from an early age until he died at the age of 82. One of his great sculptures ...

Classic English Literature

Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was first published in a poetry magazine in 1915. Later Eliot published other poems in the 20th century for which he was awarded The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. This poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a contemporary poem because it was written when Britain was considered among the modern countries of the world. This was before the beginning of World War I. It is narrated in a dramatic monologue where we find the speaker very unhappy and in mental agony. The poem became a master piece because its ...