... moralizing in character. When revolutionary movements established republics in France and America, the new governments adopted neoclassicism as their official art style. Neoclassical art is a form of art based on fixed, ideal values. The next painting I observed was one from the Baroque time period. Venus and Adonis by Rubens interested me. Peter Paul Rubens, a Flemish painter, was considered the most important of ... the 17th century. His style came to define the animated, robustly sensuous aspects of Baroque painting. The works of Michelangelo and Raphael, as well as ancient Greco-Rom...

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... moralizing in character. When revolutionary movements established republics in France and America, the new governments adopted neoclassicism as their official art style. Neoclassical art is a form of art based on fixed, ideal values. The next painting I observed was one from the Baroque time period. Venus and Adonis by Rubens interested me. Peter Paul Rubens, a Flemish painter, was considered the most important of ... the 17th century. His style came to define the animated, robustly sensuous aspects of Baroque painting. The works of Michelangelo and Raphael, as well as ancient Greco-Rom...

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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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... scene and made it into a very modern, very clear paint, whereas Rubens's The Last Supper(see Appendix B) is a very traditional painting of the Baroque era. Through the organization of the paintings, the two different styles, and the content on the canvases, the two paintings exemplify the evolution of fear the ... and the miracles of His life, something Reubens's painting has suppressed almost out of the painting. Much like the organization of a painting, the style of a painting serves as an excellent point of dissension to compare two canvases. Rubens avoids the mystic technique utiliz...

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... more of the many artists in this period that made great contributions to art during the Renaissance. A style of art known as Baroque developed in the 17th century. The center of Baroque art was in Rome. Paintings on ceilings were popular at this time. When these paintings were observed ... , Dutch merchants, and the farming community. Some Dutch paintings were of carefully arranged subjects. These were know as "still life" paintings. Another style known as "genre" showed everyday scenes in clean, private households. One famous painter from this time period was Rembrant. Early in his caree...

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... . He sculpted David, The Pieta, and Moses. He is also famed for his painting on the ceiling of the Sistene Chapel. Next came the Baroque period. During this time Rembrandt painted his Night Watch. After the Baroque period was the Rococo period. Rococo art was very whimsical. It had scenes of complacent serenity. Bouchet painted The Breakfast, and Gainesboro painted The Blue ... along an artist name Monet. Monet painted lots of landscapes of ponds, etc. He is known for his works, The Waterlily Pond and The Waterlilies. Next came the premodern art style. Artists such as George Seurat used ...

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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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