... is really interesting to compare different artist's paintings with the same subjects. The next painting I observed was one from the Baroque time period. The Baroque era began in the late 1500's in Italy and ended around the early 1800's. This era may also refer to the seventeenth century ... as a whole. The Baroque Time period is sometimes used as a general term that indicated eccentric modes of paintings, architecture, and sculpture. Baroque art spread throughout western civilization. During this time, the Catholic Church was losing its followers ... Pauwel Rubens, a Flemish painter, w...

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... "The Burial of Phocion," he depicted a time in history representing civilization in a vast landscape. Thomas Cole was an artist of the Romanticism period who was notable for his outdoor adoration. In "The Oxbow," he emphasizes the wide landscape of America as a prevailing area for civilization. Both ... between man and nature through prominence of on going civilization. Nicolas Poussin's "The Burial of Phocion," is a 1648 landscape painting from the French Baroque Era. Poussin didn't focus on geography of a picture but more of a characterized noble theme. This painting is sometimes refer...

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... many ideologies which surround the reason for Goyas drastic change in painting style but the leading one would be the Political and social events of the period, as evident in Third of May 1808, and the nightmarish Black Paintings of 1821-23, which he painted on the walls of his house ... 1808 creates a vivid image of the historical events which were only too real in his life. Goyas lifetime spanned eighty two years during that period there was radical shift in Spain's political and social system. Goya lived to see The Enlightenment, hierarchal powers of the church and the monarchy ... m...

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... image was idealized and refined. How does his work reflect the mood of the artist? The moods generated by Vermeer's paintings were very unique during his time period. During the era of the Baroque Age, Vermeer was an artist that encapsulated the idea of bringing emotion into his paintings. By the 17th century, artists began to shift the focus of art from ... valued women's roles in maintaining his idealist way of life by ensuring order within the household and raising children within Christian values, which was very popular and common during the Baroque Era. Also, Vermeer is trying to c...

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... . Rubens was very much influenced by the artists of northern Europe of his time so he traveled to Italy where it happened to be the center of art at that period. Such painters as Titian and Tintoretto greatly moved his artistic ways in Venice and then later on Michelangelo and Raphael when he studied in Rome. The ancient Greco-Roman sculptures ... , for nine years, he did many originals and also copies of Renaissance paintings. A very important part of his life that developed his artistic being was an influence in the early baroque art of Anniblae Carracci and Caravaggio and also many hum...

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Francisco Goya was considered the Father of Modern Art. He began his painting career after the Baroque period. Some of his first paintings, " Stories of the Virgin and Christ: The Visitation and the Parasol", were paintings of lively color and brilliant vision. They contained images that were of ... ...

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