... portrait of the princess Margarita, daughter of King Phillip IV of Spain along with her maids ladies-in-waiting. It was painted during the Spanish baroque. As I mentioned earlier, this painting is a combination of genre scene, group portrait and self portrait. It is considered by some to be the ... painted "Allegory of the Outbreak of War" in 1638 during the Flemish baroque. It's is about 6' 9" by 11' 4". He was considered the greatest of the Flemish baroque painters. Ruben's muscular figures were based off of Michelangelo's style while his devotion to minute detail was of northern infl...

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... portrait of the princess Margarita, daughter of King Phillip IV of Spain along with her maids ladies-in-waiting. It was painted during the Spanish baroque. As I mentioned earlier, this painting is a combination of genre scene, group portrait and self portrait. It is considered by some to be the ... painted "Allegory of the Outbreak of War" in 1638 during the Flemish baroque. It's is about 6' 9" by 11' 4". He was considered the greatest of the Flemish baroque painters. Ruben's muscular figures were based off of Michelangelo's style while his devotion to minute detail was of northern infl...

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... . Andrea Mantegna an artist that had lived from 1430 to 1506. He established his reputation when he was 20 years old. This painting is the manifest of his highly individual style. He worked at it during the years of 1451 to 1453. Mantegna painted The Adoration of The Shepherds in horizontal format (153/4x217/8(40x55.6). Mantegna used tempera on a canvas that ... colors that I can feel more emotion than Mantegna's painting. It 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...

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... saw around him--or fantasies that swarmed through his demon-ridden dreams. To begin to understand what inspired Goyas drastic changes in his painting style one must first examine the political events in his lifetime, examine his paintings, and finally consider the emotional events which occupied him during his ... met on a trip to Madrid in 1766 . Goya became was a much esteemed at court especially as portrait painter. He now abandoned Rococo for Neo-Baroque style based on Vela¡zquez and Rembrandt, the masters he came to admire the most. As seen in The Family of Charles IV (fig2) which d...

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... greatly moved his artistic ways in Venice and then later on Michelangelo and Raphael when he studied in Rome. The ancient Greco-Roman sculptures also were also a part of his style. He was employed by Vicenzo Gonzaga who was the duke of Mantua. There, for nine years, he did many originals and also copies of Renaissance paintings. A very important part of ... intellectuals. This brought Rubens into a new maturity level of art. When he left Italy to return to Flanders he was considered one of the greatest because of his use of baroque style. Rubens was so busy when he became court painter ...

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Nicolas Poussin 1549-1665 The Rape of the Sabine Women 1633-34 Poussin, oil on canvas, Baroque Even though all the galleries are equally impressive,the gallery which i found most enjoyable was the European paintings wing. Artists from El Greco to Frans Hals are displayed. With all ... has their own expression and each one of them has a story to tell. Poussin is known as the greatest French painter of his century and the greatest of the Baroque Era. His style is very Intellectual and painterly, very classic and timeless. Poussin believed that the highest aim of painting was to represent noble...

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... way through to the 20TH century. Since it covers so much time with its collection, the museum covers many diverse styles of art including Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, and Impressionism art. These special styles are viewed through about nine or ten different galleries depending on when you go and which exhibits are ... Picasso. This is just one of the many styles Dodge used. Just one year after painting the Picasso like Hour of Parting Dodge used another style to paint his Double Self Portrait. This portrait is a picture of him wearing sunglasses that depict another picture in each sepa...

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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 ... , but it looks like it has its audience in terrible fright. One man is holding his child up, giving it to the bull maybe as a sacrifice. Because of Goya's new style of painting, he would create more of these scary dark and black paintings on the walls of his house, what he believed to be the "Deaf Ma...

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