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Comparison Of Monet And Claude
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Claude's The Sermon on the Mount is a relatively
large painting in a horizontal rectangular shape.
It is a landscape painting with Jesus giving a
sermon to a crowd of his followers as the subject.
It states in the acoustic guide that Claude is
trying to depict the landscape of Mount Tabor
surrounded by the Dead Sea on the right and the
Jordan River on the left. The painting is done
from a high vantage point. One can see this
because as the viewer looks at the painting he can
see far into the dis...
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5 Th Century Bc 4 Th Century
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Greek Pottery The pottery of the ancient Greeks
are important for the styles of decoration and for
the information it gives about Greek art (Sparkes
4). Because fired clay pottery is highly durable,
few or no Greek art works that were made in wood,
textile, or wall painting have survived (Sparkes
7). The painted decoration of pottery has become
the main source of information about how the
Greeks used pottery to solve many problems because
in that time period other materials where either
unknown ...
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Roman Painting And The School Of Athens
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In the early 1500 's Raphael was chosen by Julius
II to paint a number of fresco's in the Stanza
Della Segnatura, Vatican, Rome. Among these was
the School of Athens which I have selected to
discuss in this paper. Raphael, who had studied
art since the age of seven under the teacher
Perugino in Umbria, arrived in Florence at the age
of twenty-two and achieved immediate success.
Raphael was influenced by Leonardo Da Vinci, and
Michelangelo who were the artists who had
established the High Renaiss...
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Social Aspect Young Lady
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Throughout the history of civilization man has
often made monuments in many varied forms symbolic
of the cultures they live in. These monuments are
usually represented through arts of architecture,
landscaping, painting, and sculpture. These
diverse forms of art have their own unique
qualities, all of which can be accented with
sculpture in some way. As sculpture usually
relates closely to the other arts in expression
and style, it still relies on all of the social
aspects of the society in whic...
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Landscape Painting Yale University
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... this particular painting, the focal point of
the golden mean is the sun on the horizon, and
characteristically he uses the sun to give the
painting depth. In around 1635 forgeries of
Claude's work began to appear, so he began
recording the pictures he sold in his Liber
veritas, which contains sepia drawings and
etchings of almost all his paintings, creating a
record of his most beautiful draftsmanship. Claude
did not construct these sketches as finished
items. He always thought ahead, their ...
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Landscape Painting Vertical Lines
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Georges Seurat painted A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
on canvas with oil pigments in 1844. In his work
the artist used the pointillism approach and the
use of color to make his painting be as lifelike
as possible. Seurat worked two years on this
painting, preparing it with at least twenty
drawings and forty color sketched. In these
preliminary drawings he analyzed, in detail every
color relationship and every aspect of pictorial
space. La Grande Jatte was like an experiment that
involved perspectiv...
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Death Works
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Caravaggio, Death of St. Matthew Michelangelo de
Caravaggio is one of the most renowned and popular
artists of the Baroque Period. In fact, many
paintings from this period, as well as after have
been described as? Caravagesque. ? Caravaggio? s
works are some of the most popular in Italy, as
well as around the world, and have been put into
there own stylistic group. In his painting, the
Martyrdom of St. Matthew, there contains certain
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16 Th Century Classical Style
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Issues of Mannerism The movement in painting that
is now referred to as Mannerism began in Italy
around 1520, influenced artists throughout Europe,
and lasted until the end of the 16 th century. The
word Mannerism originates from the Italian word
manner which translates into the English word
style. The basis of Mannerism then is style; it? s
a period of art where the focus was on grace and
beauty. While preceding trends of Renaissance art
looked to nature to find their style, working to
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Fourth Of July Homer
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Homer Winslow and Jules Breton, two men painting
the canvas of the nineteenth century. Comparing
their art gives birth to numerous differences and
unique qualities hidden within their work and
lives. Dressing For The Carnival, Homer 1877, and
The Weeders, Breton 1868, are fine examples of
their careers as artists. Beyond the aesthetic
merits of his work, Breton is significant as the
painter whose vision of French rural life best
embodies a set of late nineteenth- century ideals:
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Archaic Period Early Classical
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By Greek Art Greek Art By Lizette There are three
major categories of Greek sculpture: freestanding
statues, architectural sculpture, and non
architectural reliefs. The principal subjects of
Greek sculpture are gods, heroes of legend, and
athletes, youths, or maidens intended to
demonstrate ideals of beauty. Whatever the
subject, category, or material, the typical Greek
sculpture was basically spiritual in function.
Most statues and reliefs were dedicated as
offerings in sanctuaries to please or...
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Adoration Of The Magi Baby Jesus
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Iconographical Analysis: Di Nardo, Adoration Of
The Iconographical Analysis: Di Nardo, Adoration
Of The Magi Iconographical Analysis: di Nardo,
Adoration of the Magi The painting Adoration of
the Magi by di Nardo portrays the three Magi
approaching the baby Jesus and the Virgin Mary.
However, there is much more to it than just this
familiar scene from Judeo-Christian lore. When
approaching this painting in order to analyze it
iconographical, it is necessary to first look at
all aspects of the fo...
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Holy Trinity Ancient Roman
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Michelangelo s Tomb of Giuliano de Medici One of
the most famous artists ever known since the 16 th
century is a man by the name of Michelangelo
Buonarroti. He has composed art that is both
breathtaking and unmatched in such skills as
painting, sculpture, architecture and poetry. Some
of his most famous works of sculpture that he
composed are standing in the Medici Chapel in
Florence, Italy even today. I would like to speak
of a particular piece contained in the Chapel
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