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    Art History Essay

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    1. Nayip Puente-N 2. Art History II‚ 1304‚ 12-Week Session 3. Essay #1 Section 1: DESCRIPTION Part 1 of The Videotape #3 entitled The Early Renaissance Italy; depicts the Masaccio’s Holy Trinity (1425-1427). This work of art is painted in fresco in the Dominican Church of Santa Maria Novella‚ in Florence‚ Italy. This is one of the first paintings to depict deep space‚ uses one-point linear perspective to create a “tromp l’oeil” (French for "deceive the eye" ) or an effect that fools the

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    The Sistine Chapel

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    The Sistine Chapel Between 1508 and 1512 Michelangelo Buonarroti painted the ceiling of the Sistine chapel. For decades‚ the grandeur of his work leaves people mesmerized who travel from all over the world to simply catch a glimpse of the fresco. His magnificent painting yielded some of the most extraordinary illustrative images of all time and forever altered the course of artistic endeavors in the Western world. Michelangelo never wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling. He was unsettled

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    art 101 midterm notes

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    22 sep 2013 ch3 test monday fresco-used for large murals painted directly on walls. -fresco secco paint to dry surface paint chips quickly plaster artist needs to apply color to it. reaction binds color and plaster together last long time -buon fresco true fresco Michaelangelo oil paint has been around since the 15th century oil paint is powdered pigment with oil oil takes longer to dry takes couple of days became choice of medium for rencont fabrics‚ needlework‚ and weaving transitions

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    Michelangelo Buonarroti

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    Michelangelo Buonarroti Michelangelo Buonarroti was born in 1475. He was born in a small town called Caprese‚ in Tuscany‚ Italy. Michelangelo was one of the most famous artists of the Italian Renaissance. According to Charles de Tolnay Michelangelo ’s three greatest works of his later life‚ were the Tomb of Pope Julius II‚ the Sistine Chapel ceiling‚ and the Medici Chapel(37). Michelangelo ’s specialty was painting the human body unclothed. In order to learn to paint the human body so well

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    executed it prior to his stay in Florence‚ and so it is natural to assume his work was still greatly influenced by his master. The painting has significant parallels with the Christ giving the Keys to St Peter in the Sistine Chapel. As in the earlier fresco‚ Raphael uses the same structural format. The pavilion is the dominating central focus which gives the depth of the scene in relation to the figures of the foreground. The figures between the pavilion and the frontal scene is proportional in size

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    Art Vocan

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    Ch 1 - The nature of art Cathedra - Barnett Newman‚ 1951‚ Oil on canvas art forms - An activity or a piece of artistic work that can be regarded as a medium of artistic expression. Music‚ dance‚ theater‚ literature‚ and the visual arts. visual arts - drawing‚ painting‚ sculpture‚ film‚ architecture and design work of art - The visual expression of an idea or experience formed with skill through the use of a medium. medium‚ media - A particular material along with its accompanying technique;

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    School of Athens

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    II released all the other artists and gave Raphael individual responsibility for the stanze. The job of Raphael was to paint a number of frescos (painting on wet plaster wall) in the Stanza della Segnatura; Vatican‚ Rome. Among these was the School of Athens which I have selected to discuss in this paper. (Earls‚ pages 183-186) (Merlo‚ pages 98-99) The fresco School of Athens is located in the Vatican in Rome in the Stanza della Segnatura which was the place of the Pope ’s library and where the

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    story of how the Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Michelangelo is a sculptor not an artist and did not really want to paint the Sistine Chapel. He had no prior knowledge of fresco and was not trained at all in painting. He was a very determined and dedicated man. Being a rookie at fresco painting‚ in the beginning he made multiple mistakes that were tough to correct‚ but he didn’t give up. Although he complained about doing this for the Pope‚ he stayed with it. He was perseverant

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    Christ in Majesty

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    artist painted it in 1123 CE by using fresco technique (a painting with mixed color and wet plaster on a wall) to create this painting to make it stays lasting. This painting represents Jesus Christ as a ruler of the universe and tries to show his majesty. It may be used in the term of propaganda; for make people to believe in religion and power of Jesus Christ. According to its ages some parts of the painting were destroyed. By observing the Christ in Majesty fresco. Most of the forms are round and

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    In the right fresco‚ Lorenzetti is presenting us with a kind of a utopia. In the city‚ the people are living in harmony with each other and we can observe justice and order between the people and their interactions. Some people are engaging in commerce‚ others are attending

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