In painted chests and wedding processions, tales of Renaissance love and more Dec 19, 2008
The panel was inspired - like many of the paintings here - by Petrarch's "The Triumphs," a cycle of poems about the progress of the human soul that the early Renaissance poet and scholar left unfinished when he died. Following Petrarch's lead, the painter has pulled out all the stops to get across the socially responsible message that chastity is good and promiscuity (as represented by Cupid) will be punished. (Boston Globe)
Test your art history Oct 25, 2008
One of which Italian painter's masterpieces from the Early Renaissance period is named "The Birth of Venus". 12. (Montana Standard, MT)
Faces of Power and Piety: Medieval ... Sep 9, 2008
"Faces of Power and Piety: Medieval Portraiture" looks at stylized portrait painting in Western Europe during the Middle Ages and early Renaissance ... Co-curators Elizabeth Morrison and Erik Inglis carefully selected individual folios (pages) from the Getty's rich trove of medieval and early Renaissance manuscripts for this exhibit. (Suite101.com)
London - National Gallery Sep 1, 2008
The entire early Renaissance collection was moved to the new Sainsbury Wing. National Gallery - War damage. (Suite101.com)
Artist is bitten by desire to put greenheads on canvas Jul 20, 2008
"He refers back to the transitional period between Gothic and Renaissance. People like Giotto. He takes early Renaissance classical art and uses that as a tool he almost mixes with a surreal modernity and comes up with this personal alphabet. They're theatrical, actually, little windows of theater into a modern world.". Holdsworth never planned on showing the work at the museum, where he has served as trustee since 1990. (Boston Globe)
C. Griffith Mann New Chief Curator ... Jul 17, 2008
A specialist in Italian medieval and early Renaissance art, Dr. Mann has edited, authored and co-authored exhibition catalogues, book reviews and scholarly articles on medieval relics and reliquaries, Ethiopian icons, Italian panel paintings and French illuminated manuscripts. His essays appear in Picturing the Bible in the Thirteenth Century, The Lion Companion to Christian Art and Ethiopian Art: The Walters Art Museum. (Suite101.com)
Byzantium 330-1453: A Special Exhib... Jul 13, 2008
flowering of Byzantine art and its relation to that of early Renaissance Italy, the Balkans and Russia. The exhibition concludes with the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Ottoman forces of Sultan Mehmed II.. (Suite101.com)
John Berger's Ways of Seeing Jun 27, 2008
The camera cuts from a model looking in a mirror as she prepares for a photo shoot to an early Renaissance nude lost deep in her reflection. "Women constantly meet glances which act like mirrors," states Berger. (Suite101.com)
Early Renaissance Painters Jun 2, 2008
And the Subjects of their Paintings. What are the subjects doing in the paintings of these 15th-century Dutch and Italian masters and where can art enthusiasts see these paintings today. (Suite101.com)
Renaissance Artist Nicknames May 15, 2008
This Italian Early Renaissance painter of the Florentine school prompted historian Giorgio Vasari to write in Life of Uccello :Uccello's wife told people that he stayed up all night in his study working out the vanishing points of his perspective, and that when she called him to come to bed he would say: "Oh what a lovely thing this perspective is!" ... An Early Renaissance painter whose pupils included Leonardo da Vinci, Perugino, Ghirlandaio and Sandro Botticelli. (Suite101.com)
'Passport to Europe' Apr 18, 2008
But there also are some real gems from the early Renaissance, from the Neo-Classical and one very fine Modern painting by Lovis Corinth, of his pregnant wife, nude, in the pose of the classical Venus. In its way it sums up all of European art from the paleolithic Venus of Willendorf to anticipating the painterly flesh of the current Lucien Freud. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
STUDYING ABROAD OFFERS NEW EXPERIENCES TO EAST AURORA HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES Feb 11, 2008
Among her courses, Wynes enrolled in the history of Florence; medieval and early Renaissance; and history of the Italian Mafia. "History of the Italian Mafia was awesome," exclaimed Wynes. (East Aurora Advertiser, NY)
A gentle Griffin Dec 2, 2007
Perugia's own golden boy Pinturicchio and Pietro Vannucci (also known as the Perugino) are synonymous with pioneering the early Renaissance techniques -- the latter was master to the young Raphael Santi in his workshop. Head toward the chapel of San Severo to adore suggestive Raffael and Perugino's frescoes. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
In What World Museum Nov 12, 2007
"The Madonna with Canon van der Paele by Jan van Eyck In this painting (1436), the artist depicts exquisite brocades, silks, and furs in an extraordinarily lifelike way. It resides in Groeningemuseum, Bruges. The St. Lucy Altarpiece by Domenico Veneziano This panel (c. 1445) is Veneziano s most celebrated work. It hangs in the Uffizi, Florence. The Last Judgment by Rogier van der Weyden Burgundian chancellor Nicolas Rolin, one of the richest and most powerful men at the time, commissioned this... (Suite101.com)
Photography collection upholds its image Jul 25, 2007
This early Renaissance master gave his subjects curiously slanted, high-cheekboned eyes. And now we can see with our own eyes that he wasn't making them up. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)
Which 19th-Century Painter Jun 24, 2007
Likewise, in the frescoes painted by Early Renaissance master Fra Angelico, the viewer can see that painterly skill matched with an artist s personal interpretation of his subject creates a truly great work of art. Indeed, Beardsley s drawings earned him the term the Fra Angelico of Satanism by art critic Roger Fry. (Suite101.com)
With lifelike detail, the wonders of nature Jun 8, 2007
In his informative catalog essay, Stebbins quotes Ruskin, who valued detail in art "for the inestimable beauty which exists in the slightest and least of God's works." Moore's feather illustrates that precept, and so do other works of his in the show, including a pine tree drawn in black ink in which it seems you can make out every needle and an upstate New York winter landscape the size of a paperback book that could have been painted by an Early Renaissance miniaturist. As for Ruskin, he is... (Boston Globe)
Sol LeWitt, a Modern Master, Left a Vibrant Mark on the County Apr 13, 2007
"These were Piero della Francesca colors," Mr. Doyle said, referring to the Early Renaissance painter who loved geometry and to whose palette, he said, Mr. LeWitt gave an Umbrian cast. "[Mr. LeWitt] transported the rooms by the way he used the forms. It wasn't drastic or upsetting. It was very beautiful," he said of an artist whose early structures were created of white enamel and whose wall drawings, of which 1,200 were executed during his lifetime, extended across surfaces primarily in... (Litchfield County Times, CT)
Influential artist put priority on concepts Apr 10, 2007
" And his radicalism and emphasis on the idea precluded neither a sense of history or the pursuit of beauty. Twenty years ago, calling upon the memory of a great early Renaissance fresco painter, he said, "I would like to produce something I would not be ashamed to show Giotto. " Sponsored Links MOST POPULAR STORIES Search AJC Archives Search staff-written and other selected articles. from 1985 to present from 1868 - 1929 services Find the right people for the job: Keyword Business Name Powered... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Modernism's odd man out Apr 9, 2007
cle, its bare and writhing branches are backlit by luminous skies that recall Italian art of the early Renaissance, and its coursing hounds have the teeming vitality of Paolo Uccello. Once inside the first galleries, the curators take us back to Denis's earliest years as an artist, and his more customary intimate scale. (Globe and Mail)
Flower Symbols in Christian Art Jan 7, 2007
During the Early Renaissance most art depicted religious themes ... Many flowers used in Christian and Early Renaissance paintings borrowed their symbolism from mythology. (Suite101.com)
