... of a relative of the Marquis of Caravaggio. He then moved on to other places of hiding and eventually reached Naples, probably in early 1607. He remained at Naples for a time, painting "Madonna of the Rosary" for the Flemish painter Louis Finson and one of his late masterpieces, "The Seven Works of Mercy" for the Chapel of Monte della Misericordia. It is ... depicted in contemporary costumes and settings. Solid figures are represented with expressive and many times violent gestures in unusual and dramatic groups composed within a shallow foreground space. His method of painting was rega...

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... influenced Artemisia Gentileschi's work. Caravaggio died when Artemisia was seventeen years old. That same year she completed her first known painting, Susanna and the Elders (1610). This painting describes how vulnerable a woman is in a male world. A few months after she finished her first painting, Artemisia had a traumatic experience. Her father had a tenant named Tuzia living in the upstairs apartment. Her father also had ... a virgin, she was classified as "damaged property". Tassi had promised marriage but he claimed that Artemisia was promiscuous and he failed to uphold his promi...

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... the Baroque. He dominated almost the entire seventeenth century, with Rome being his primary stage. "In Marble, travertine, stucco, and gilt; in painting, through glass and shimmering water, sculptured space and channeled light, Bernini left his imprint on the Catholic capitol, the indelible stamp of genius" (Scribner ... religion. Gianlorenzo Bernini was born in Naples on December 7, 1598. His father, Pietro, was a Florentine sculptor who had moved to Naples to practice painting. There he met Angelica Galante, a young Neapolitan girl. Pietro Bernini was considered on of the best sculpto...

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... . At that time, one learned with a master in a Bottega (shop) by imitating the style of work of the master, often participating in the painting itself and often completing the work of art commissioned by patrons. Within a decade, Rafael came to be known as the painter in the shop and even ... space of his compositions into ideal structures. He integrated and harmonized from the picture plane to the point of infinity. For example, in his painting of the "Marriage of the Virgin" which he signed in 1504, he uses the "rules" of the Quattrocento, well learned while with Perugino ... to be exe...

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... raised him. His father taught Leonardo's education until he was fifteen years old. In 1469 his father noticed his potential in painting and sent him to be an apprentice in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence Italy. Leonardo studied painting, sculpture, and mechanical arts, he also developed and interest in anatomy. In 1472 at the age of 20 Leonardo was ... up studying biology, anatomy, mathematics, and physics. He kept his studies in notebooks that were written in a mirror- image script. In his 17-year stay in Milan he completed the painting "The Last Supper." In 1502 Leon...

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... Renaissance; glorification of pagan culture without rejecting Christianity". (pg. 278) The artists still painted using some Christian themes that are visible in the painting, but the have also used other historical events or figures. The painters did not turn their back on the church totally, but it was ... not their only focus. Another famous painter from Northern Europe was Jan van Eyck who painted The Betrothal of the Arnolfini. "Thus this painting is both a realistic depiction of two individuals with personalities in a natural setting and symbolic representation of the meanings of ma...

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... light and the sense of emotion depicted in the artwork. Baroque Artists learned how to project its figures into the viewer's space by lighting their figures dramatically and painting the background as mere shadows. The light in the paintings often enhanced the sense of drama and often created a feeling of energy and movement. This type of ... for the paintings that resulted in public astonishment and was even considered offensive. This reaction marked a change in the artist's style and he then devoted himself to the painting of traditional themes. However, he continued to give a new inte...

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... worry about making their paintings realistic. This trend did not continue into the Renaissance, which is clear in the obvious inconsistencies between the two paintings shown in Document A. The second painting, The Mona Lisa, shows that the Renaissance changed the mindset of man through the great detail shown, which proves that he paid attention to, and appreciated, man and his beauty ... more. Artists now painted man for the sake of painting a beautiful individual rather than painting an individual for the purpose of conveying some sort of biblical message. The emphasis on the individua...

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Prometheus Bound, an oil painting created by both artist Peter Rubens and Frans Snyder, tells the story of the mythological creature Prometheus. The background of the story is that this mythological creature stole fire from ... his skin apart but then proceeds to devour the mythological being's liver. Unfortunately, the story does not end. The liver regenerates daily for Prometheus to suffer an excruciating fatality. This painting not only shows the very horrid expressions of pain and terror in the creature's face but also a very dramatic and bloody depiction of what is being done to the Pro...

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... Early Renaissance art. His use of monumental figures demonstrated more realistic relationship between figures and landscape and a visual representation of the laws of perspective, a new style of realistic style of painting was born. Masaccio's massive three dimensional human figures provided a model for later generations of Florentine artists. The new Renaissance style was absorbed and modified by other Florentine painters in the ... fifteenth century. What was extremely important was the development of an experimental trend that took two directions. One emphasized the mathematical side...

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Supper at Emmaus This painting by Caravaggio is very typical as to the baroque style of art in three ways. First, it makes the viewer feel as though they were part of the event. Second, ... it portrays the most emotional moment of the event pictured. And finally the use of great contrast by the artist is exemplary of the time period. This painting draws in the viewer both physically and emotionally. The techniques used by the artist must have been long contemplated and were obviously well orchestrated. The first two are manifested in ... ...

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... , however a man of culture, who was in constant contact with the advanced artistic ideas current at the court of Urbino. (Santi, page 2) He gave his son his first instruction in painting, and, before his death in 1494, when Raphael was 11, he had introduced the Raphael to humanistic philosophy at the court. His father, Giovanni Santi, held an important but indefinite ... action. At this time he made a transition form the typical style of the Umbrian school, with its emphasis on perspective and rigidly geometrical composition, to a more animated, informal manner of painting. His developme...

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... own styles and methods. About a century before the art caught on, a Florentine painter by the name of Giotto was the first to break away from the Middle Age style of painting. Giotto was the towering artistic genius of the 14th century, so far ahead of his time that no other painter approached his level of work for almost a hundred years (Walker ... , along with a storyteller's ability to capture the central moment in a particular scene (Walker 78). One of the important pieces of the revolution that David 3 Giotto started was that he established painting as a major art for the next six c...

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... but much progress in teaching his son. He was, however, in constant contact with the advanced ideas of the artwork around Italy. He gave his son his first instruction in painting, and, before his death in 1494, when Raphael was 11,he opened up all these ideas to his son. Urbino, Raphael's hometown, had become a center of culture during the Renaissance ... of his artwork. Even at the beginning of the 16th century, when he was just turning 17 years old, was already displaying an extraordinary talent in the work he was painting. Raphael arrived in Perugia on December 10th,1500. He served a...

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... Greek and Roman art pieces. An artistic movement during the Renaissance was Humanism. Humanism is the new philosophical, literary, and artistic movement. This movement also rediscovered the classical literature and painting characteristics of Greece and Rome. During Humanism, the focus shifted from God and the hereafter to humankind and the here and now. What is meant by this is that in ... . Seen in fig. 1 which is a sculpture created by Donatello you can see the detail of muscle structure and form. Also see fig 2 titled, Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli. This painting is another gre...

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... of movement, energy, and tension. Throughout the Renaissance and into the baroque period, painters sought a grander sense of space and truer depiction of perspective in their works. An example of painting that greatly shows these points is Pozzo's Allegory of the Missionary Work of the Jesuits. Pozzo believed that the illusion of infinite space could evoke feelings of spiritual exaltation and ... incorporated the art and architecture from Greek and Roman times. Jacques-Louis David, the most famous of Neoclassical painters, established the techniques and ideals that soon became typical o...

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... also had a strong military, which they used to dominate the surrounding societies. They were sophisticated people, with and alphabet based on the Greek alphabet, an original style in sculpture and painting, a religion based on human like gods, and a complicated set of rituals which they performed annually. By the fifth century, their power began to fall. The Greeks were the other group ... ...

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... 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 and serious human actions, shown in a logical and orderly way, not how they really happened, but how they would have happened if nature was perfect. He ... ...

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... to cast free standing figures. Michelangelo was best known for his free standing figure of David, and Ghiberti for his ten biblical scenes on Florence cathedral's walls. During the Renaissance, painting acquired a more realistic style. Some famous painters of the time are Giotto, Michelangelo, and probably the most famous of all, Leonardo Da Vinci. Da Vinci is best known for his ... ...

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... , and his emotional expression was more than moving. He even went on to become the official painter for King Charles IV of Spain. During this time, he produced a very famous painting which depicted the inperfections of royalty and the court of Spain at that time (Cunningham-Reich, 289-290). Another famous painter of the Romantic Era was Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson ... ...

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... , and his emotional expression was more than moving. He even went on to become the official painter for King Charles IV of Spain. During this time, he produced a very famous painting which depicted the inperfections of royalty and the court of Spain at that time (Cunningham-Reich, 289-290). Another famous painter of the Romantic Era was Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson ... ...

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... into their paintings, challenging the way things have been done in the past. These artists also added abnormal figures or altered the proportions in paintings. This is displayed in Parmigianino's painting, Madonna of the long neck. During this time the Catholic Church was in a transition period moving from their recent reputation and becoming a well-respected organization. During this reform, an autobiography ... ...

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... the morning. His parents were Giovanni de Santi and Magia di Battista Ciarla; his mother died in 1491. Giovanni de Santi, a painter himself, gave his son his first instruction in painting, and, before his death in 1494, when Raphael was 11, he had introduced the boy to humanistic philosophy at the court. At the age of seventeen, his father sent him ... ...

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... in a side chapel near the basilica, because she was a martyr. She symbolizes an organ because she always used an organ as an attribute for God. She is represented in a famous painting by Raphael called "Bologna". Her stories were highly thought of in the fourth and fifth centuries. At an early age she dedicated herself to God. However she married a young noble ... ...

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... about. Including canvas, a new medium with which to put art on, and oil paints which don't dry so quickly so it allows you more time with your work. A type of painting called Fresco which uses plaster and is applied to a wall little by little over the course of a few days. He also taught me about a new technique called chiaroscuro which is ... ...

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