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Topic: Renaissance Art Likes
Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Subject: Renaissance Art Likes
Date Posted: 01-Jul-2011 at 19:10
This is an easy one I hope. What are your Renaissance Art likes? This isn't restricted to painting, so be free to post any examples from the era.

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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.



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Posted By: Centrix Vigilis
Date Posted: 01-Jul-2011 at 19:31
Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Essays


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"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"

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Pilger's law: 'If it's been officially denied, then it's probably true'



Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 18-Aug-2011 at 12:54
The Ambassadors (1533) is a painting by  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Holbein_the_Younger - Hans Holbein the Younger . Much of what the Renaissance is about is found on this painting.




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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: Don Quixote
Date Posted: 21-Aug-2011 at 21:21
This is something I just found - "Allegory of the Human Life", Alessandro Alori. I like the symbolism /or at least what I think it presents/, of the humanity doing what everyone tries to get done, and the angel trumpets that we are living on a borrowed time.



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Posted By: Don Quixote
Date Posted: 23-Aug-2011 at 01:50
I wanted to post something more cheerful, so I don't have nightmares tonight -  "Danae" by Correggio.
http://www.wga.hu/art/c/correggi/mytholog/danae.jpg">Click!










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Posted By: Centrix Vigilis
Date Posted: 23-Aug-2011 at 07:23
Durer.
 
http://s3.hubimg.com/u/1366922_f260.jpg - http://s3.hubimg.com/u/1366922_f260.jpg


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"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"

S. T. Friedman


Pilger's law: 'If it's been officially denied, then it's probably true'



Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 23-Aug-2011 at 08:07
The Creation of Adam, on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and painted by Michelangelo. On describing the fresco it has been described as thus, “Despite the height of the ceiling the proportions of the Creation of Adam are such that when standing beneath it, “it appears as if the viewer could simply raise a finger and meet those of God and Adam”.

 



 


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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 24-Aug-2011 at 16:30
Madonna Surrounded by Seraphim and Cherubim, 1452,Jean Fouquet. I love the way that Mary in this painting has been made into this high class Renaissance figure in the way she is portrayed.





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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: Centrix Vigilis
Date Posted: 24-Aug-2011 at 16:52
Hieronymus Bosch
 
http://www.all-art.org/early_renaissance/bosch5.html - http://www.all-art.org/early_renaissance/bosch5.html


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"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"

S. T. Friedman


Pilger's law: 'If it's been officially denied, then it's probably true'



Posted By: Don Quixote
Date Posted: 24-Aug-2011 at 19:09
Originally posted by Centrix Vigilis

Hieronymus Bosch
  http://www.all-art.org/early_renaissance/bosch5.html - http://www.all-art.org/early_renaissance/bosch5.html

This is an interesting and useful link, thanks, CV!

A portrait of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's unfortunate second wife and mother of Queen Elizabeth I:

Anne Boleyn as the Queen of Spades:




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Posted By: Don Quixote
Date Posted: 24-Aug-2011 at 19:46
Anne Boleyn:

Queen Elizabeth I
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/lizvandermeulen.jpg
I think there is much similarity in the shape of the face and nose, but Elizabeth doesn't have the playfulness in the eyes like her mom - and with a reason, I think. After what happened to her mom, and all the pain Elizabeth went through as a child because of it, it's no wonder that she never married; I wouldn't too. Elizabeth eyes are serious, almost frozen, under control, nothing like the charming drawing-in eyes of Anne.
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/elizaphoenix.jpg

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/elizahilliard.jpg

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/elizanglesey.jpg


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Posted By: Ollios
Date Posted: 25-Aug-2011 at 07:34
Renaissance artists in Ottoman Empire;

First portrait painting in Ottomans. It was made in 1480 by Gentile Bellini
   

Leonardo Va Vinci's bridge project for Istanbul


maybe it isn't renaissance period bridge, but its plan is. Big smile








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Posted By: Don Quixote
Date Posted: 25-Aug-2011 at 19:30
Polidoro da Caravaggio "Noli me Tangere", 1625:



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Posted By: Don Quixote
Date Posted: 26-Aug-2011 at 03:17
Ceccino de Salvati 'Lamentation" 1539-41


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Posted By: Don Quixote
Date Posted: 26-Aug-2011 at 03:21
Giorgione, "Sleeping Venus", 1510

http://www.wga.hu/art/g/giorgion/various/venus.jpg">
For some strange reason I get the picture or too big, so it doesn't fit, or too small, so it can barely be seen, so I'm going to paste here the link, for whoever what to see the whole thing http://www.wga.hu/index1.html - http://www.wga.hu/index1.html    it's under "G", the 3rd page for "Giorgione", under "various Paintings" the bottom of the page.


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Posted By: Don Quixote
Date Posted: 26-Aug-2011 at 14:59
Baciccio, "The Pieta", 1667



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Posted By: Don Quixote
Date Posted: 27-Aug-2011 at 19:33
In some way this Saint Rosa, by Melchiore Caffa, 1665,

 as another type of Venus, a spiritual one, since a Christian saint is one who replaced the earthly ecstacy with an otherworldy one; but the spiritual  one is usually presented in the same way as the earthly one - I suppose because there is no other way to present in physical what one knows in physical terms only. Freud would have a ball with this.

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Posted By: Karalem
Date Posted: 28-Aug-2011 at 12:24
It is intersesting to compare Renaissance art with the mostly ecclesiastical and artistically sketchy art from the early and mid middle ages. Strict religious pattern of medieval art vs flamboyant, perfect, unrestrained painting of the Renaissance. On Wikipedia, in History of Painting both periods can be compared. What caused such an evoltion in painting through the Renaissance?


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 28-Aug-2011 at 16:54
Hunt in the forest, by Paolo Uccello1460s. This painting is meant to be about courtly love.




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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: Don Quixote
Date Posted: 29-Aug-2011 at 02:58
Originally posted by Karalem

It is intersesting to compare Renaissance art with the mostly ecclesiastical and artistically sketchy art from the early and mid middle ages. Strict religious pattern of medieval art vs flamboyant, perfect, unrestrained painting of the Renaissance. On Wikipedia, in History of Painting both periods can be compared. What caused such an evoltion in painting through the Renaissance?

The Renaissance art was built in the base of the Gothic art; this was the time when art started to be seen as educational medium, since most people were illiterate. I suppose this brought the popularity of art to start with. Then with the interest toward the classical art and studying the Roman/Greek sculptures the idea of prespective was developed, I'm not sure from where because the Greek and Roman pictorial art didn't use perspective; besides I'm not sure how many such pictorial models were available at the time. Brunelleschi was experimenting with perspective, Donatello was using it in this relief:
Relief of St. George and Dragon DONATELLO: Relief: St. George and the Dragon

Masaccio used perspective too, in pictorial presentations, this is his "Tribute Money":
Tribute Money
I suppose the combination of the roundness of the classical sculpture with the perspective did the trick - many of Michelangelo's paintings are imitations of sculpture, one can almost see them as sculptures, like in his "Leda and the Swan":
http://www.wga.hu/art/m/michelan/2paintin/2leda.jpg">



Then the inspiration they were drawing from religion plus the inspiration drawn  from the classical mythology combined and gave rise to hundreds combinations of different aspects of those. The still life appeared, and became very popular in Flanders; I consider this to be a really unique European development, since I don't remember seeing it neither in the classical art, nor in the Arabic one, nor in the Byzantinian one, so it has to be a local development. The Italian painters seen to have been interested more in religious or mythological themes, while in Flanders and the Netherlands a real interest toward the life or ordinary people was developed, and in the simple things of life - an apple, a goose, a vase - very non-pretentious, and still investigated and presented in a most delightful way:
Nicholas Maes, 'Old Woman Dosing", 1656:
Abraham van Beyeren's "Still life with Lobster", 1653
So, it was the combination of old inspirations from the classics, the invention of the perspective, and using loads of imagination in all possible directions, enjoying every part and side of life and loving it in colors - this is my take on the roots of the Renaissance anyway.


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Posted By: Karalem
Date Posted: 29-Aug-2011 at 07:32
You sure Perspective is lacking in the classical art?

 I would add there was no photography, no videos, no printers. Painting was a booming industry, needed in medicine, construction, landscaping, etc...Relaxation of medieval religious strict rules was a step ahead in medicine. Before that, opening up the body to study anatomy was not allowed. Painters were suddenly required to draw internal organs.

Painters were mostly professionals rather than artists. Artistic Renaissance painting was the outcome of multitudes of people making their living as painters one way or another. Some of them, by way of sheer statistics became artists. So, to me, it was the very important role of painting in the growing quickly developing time of the Renaissance that led to the great Renaissance art, so superior and so diffrent to its predecessors.




Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 29-Aug-2011 at 16:57



Sandro Botticelli had a muse called Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci, and is the face in many of his paintings. Though she was also painted by others too. I've got to say I have a fascination
 of the whole idea of muses, and I believe this one is very special.

The Birth of Venus, by  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandro_Botticelli - Sandro Botticelli . 1486

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Venus and Mars, by  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandro_Botticelli - Sandro Botticelli , 1483

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Primavera, by  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandro_Botticelli - Sandro Botticelli , 1482

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Cleopatra, by Piero di Cosimo, 1480. This one is my favourite painting with Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci.





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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: Don Quixote
Date Posted: 29-Aug-2011 at 20:16
One of Boticelli's late pictures - "Madonna with Child and Young St. John the Baptist", 1490-95.



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Posted By: Centrix Vigilis
Date Posted: 29-Aug-2011 at 21:31
De Nachtwacht.
 
Rembrandt van Rijn
 


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"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"

S. T. Friedman


Pilger's law: 'If it's been officially denied, then it's probably true'



Posted By: Don Quixote
Date Posted: 30-Aug-2011 at 14:24
Raffaello "The Three Graces", 1505



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Posted By: Karalem
Date Posted: 30-Aug-2011 at 16:07

Here is a roman painting of Hercules strangling the snake.  It looks like perspective is used. A very advanced piece of art, lacking nothing  in comparison to the renaissance painting.




Posted By: Don Quixote
Date Posted: 30-Aug-2011 at 20:05
Originally posted by Karalem


Here is a roman painting of Hercules strangling the snake.  It looks like perspective is used. A very advanced piece of art, lacking nothing  in comparison to the renaissance painting.

Yes, it seems that perspective is used, for the middle figure. What time is it done? - I had never seen this picture before.


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Posted By: Karalem
Date Posted: 30-Aug-2011 at 20:27
it says it is a Pompeian painting, around 200 AD


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 31-Aug-2011 at 06:47

Laocoön and His Sons





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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: Don Quixote
Date Posted: 31-Aug-2011 at 19:51
Michelangelo "The Delphic Sybil", 1509



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Posted By: Don Quixote
Date Posted: 31-Aug-2011 at 19:52
Originally posted by Karalem

it says it is a Pompeian painting, around 200 AD

Thanks, Karalem!


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Posted By: Don Quixote
Date Posted: 13-Sep-2011 at 19:18
Michelangelo "Pieta"



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Posted By: Don Quixote
Date Posted: 22-Oct-2011 at 23:13
Artemisia Gentilesci  - "Bathsheba"




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Posted By: Don Quixote
Date Posted: 23-Oct-2011 at 19:08
You mean "her", right? Artemisia Gentilesci was the only accepted Renaissance woman painter I know of.
I haven't seen this picture, it's beautiful. She generally don't have attractive faces on her woman characters...like in "Susanna and the Elders"



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Posted By: Don Quixote
Date Posted: 14-Nov-2011 at 13:42
Just a typing error, like  we all do when typing fast.
Jiovanni Paolo Fonduli /1468-1484/ - Seated Nymph,




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Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 14-Dec-2011 at 07:16
Now this is a beautifully portrayed painting and powerful in its depiction. Rembrandt's The Sacrifice Of Abraham, 1635. Very evocative. Btw if you look carefully you will see a ram caught in a thicket, that is the real sacrifice.


 


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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 03-Jan-2012 at 10:37
This is a beautiful, and touching painting, the "Small Cowper Madonna", by, Raphael, 1505, and is oil on panel. It is thought it was a gift by Raphael as a wedding present.

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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 05-Jan-2012 at 17:52
Here's another painting with a Madonna on it. This one is the Madonna of the Harpies, by Andrea del Sarto, 1517, and is oil on wood. It's such a beautiful creation.

File:Andrea del Sarto - Madonna of the Harpies - WGA00369.jpg


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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 06-Jan-2012 at 12:51
This beautiful example is the Sistine Madonna, by Raphael, 1513-1514, and is oil on canvas.



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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: Nick1986
Date Posted: 07-Jan-2012 at 20:11

Henry VIII by Holbein


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Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 07-Jan-2012 at 20:25
This beautiful scene is called Madonna of the fireplace, by Jan Gossaert, in around 1500 and it's in oils.


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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 08-Jan-2012 at 00:15
This one is called the Virgin and Child, by Joos van Cleve, 1525, and is oil on wood.

Virgin and Child


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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 08-Jan-2012 at 10:23

This is a painting by Filippino Lippi, St Paul visits St Peter in Prison. The date is unknown, and it is an oil on canvas.

Can you imagine you feel the walls all around you closing in, or you feel as if you are being trapped within your present relationship with your husband, wife, job…etc…This is the kind of closed in feeling I’m getting from imagining being St Peter in that prison. Yuk!!!



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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: red clay
Date Posted: 08-Jan-2012 at 11:58
 

Can you imagine you feel the walls all around you closing in, or you feel as if you are being trapped within your present relationship with your husband, wife, job…etc…This is the kind of closed in feeling I’m getting from imagining being St Peter in that prison. Yuk!!!

That feeling is also called "Museumitis".  It was explained to me by the curator of the Museum of the UofP.  The  air in a museum is controlled.  Its humidity and oxygen levels are set for the displays, not the folks looking at them.



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Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 08-Jan-2012 at 12:19
Originally posted by red clay

 

Can you imagine you feel the walls all around you closing in, or you feel as if you are being trapped within your present relationship with your husband, wife, job…etc…This is the kind of closed in feeling I’m getting from imagining being St Peter in that prison. Yuk!!!

That feeling is also called "Museumitis".  It was explained to me by the curator of the Museum of the UofP.  The  air in a museum is controlled.  Its humidity and oxygen levels are set for the displays, not the folks looking at them.

Oh wow, red, thank you for the information.Smile I hadn't heard of museumitis before, but I can understand the concept after reading about it. I guess winter conditions with minimal heating could bring on similar feelings too, if you feel trapped and closed in in your home now for any period of time.LOL

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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 09-Jan-2012 at 20:05
This is Leda and the swan by BARTOLOMEO AMMANATI


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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 10-Jan-2012 at 13:04
Here are two beautiful paintings here, first is the Madonna in the rose bower, by Stefan Lochner, 1440-42, oil on wood.


Secondly we have the Darmstadt Madonna, by Hans Holbein the younger, 1526, oil on wood.



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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 13-Jan-2012 at 10:32
This fine painting is called Madonna in the meadow, by Giovanni Bellini, 1505.



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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 14-Jan-2012 at 06:37
Bernardino Luini (Italian High Renaissance Painter, c 1480-1532) Madonna and Child



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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 15-Jan-2012 at 14:06
This beautiful painting is called the Tempi Madonna, by Raphael, 1508, and it's in oils.



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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 18-Jan-2012 at 10:15
Another fantastic painting, The Holy family on the steps, this one by Nicolas Poussin, 1648, and it is oil on canvas. The symbilism on this one is also unmistakable. The figures on the steps are in a pyramid shape with Mary and the infant Jesus at the apex, showing their usual importance. You can also see John the baptist handing Jesus an apple, symbolising original sin and Jesus' accepting his role in the redemption of humanity.  




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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 19-Jan-2012 at 16:01
This is another beautiful painting, The Maids of Honour, by Diego Velázquez, 1656-7, and oil on canvas



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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 20-Jan-2012 at 14:31
This beautiful painting is called The Tempest, by Giorgione, 1506-08, and is in oil on canvas.




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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 28-Jan-2012 at 18:32
This is another beautiful painting by Giovanni Bellini. This one is The Madonna and Child in a landscape, and it's tempera and oils on panel.



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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 19-Feb-2012 at 12:22
This is a beautiful painting called, The Feast of the Gods, by Giovanni Bellini, with additions by Titian. It was painted in 1514, and is oil on canvas.

File:Feastofthegods.jpg


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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 28-Feb-2012 at 08:26
This painting is by Duccio di Buoninsegna, and called Jesus Captured, and it's temperera on panel.


Duccio di Buoninsegna: Jesus Captured (detail)


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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 24-Aug-2012 at 06:35
Glorification of Mary by Sandro Botticelli, 1480-81
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Magnificatio.jpg/602px-Magnificatio.jpg - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Magnificatio.jpg/602px-Magnificatio.jpg


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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 26-Aug-2012 at 10:19
Michelangelo's Christ the Redeemer, 1521
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Michelangelo-Christ.jpg/293px-Michelangelo-Christ.jpg - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Michelangelo-Christ.jpg/293px-Michelangelo-Christ.jpg


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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 27-Aug-2012 at 00:21
Michelangelo's Bacchus.
http://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/artists_l-z/michelangelo/Michelangelo_Bacchus.jpg - http://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/artists_l-z/michelangelo/Michelangelo_Bacchus.jpg


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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 28-Aug-2012 at 08:34
Paris Bordone's Venus and Mars with Cupid, 1560

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Paris_Bordone_002.jpg/680px-Paris_Bordone_002.jpg - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Paris_Bordone_002.jpg/680px-Paris_Bordone_002.jpg


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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 29-Aug-2012 at 09:29
Hans Baldung Grien's Standing Witch and Dragon, 1515.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Hans_Baldung_-_Stehende_Hexe_mit_Ungeheuer.jpg/421px-Hans_Baldung_-_Stehende_Hexe_mit_Ungeheuer.jpg - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Hans_Baldung_-_Stehende_Hexe_mit_Ungeheuer.jpg/421px-Hans_Baldung_-_Stehende_Hexe_mit_Ungeheuer.jpg


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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 31-Aug-2012 at 14:41
Hans Baldung Grien's,  Three Ages of the Woman and the Death, 1510. I bet once seen you find it impossible to get the images out of your mind.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Hans_Baldung_-_Three_Ages_of_the_Woman_and_the_Death_-_WGA01189.jpg/398px-Hans_Baldung_-_Three_Ages_of_the_Woman_and_the_Death_-_WGA01189.jpg - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Hans_Baldung_-_Three_Ages_of_the_Woman_and_the_Death_-_WGA01189.jpg/398px-Hans_Baldung_-_Three_Ages_of_the_Woman_and_the_Death_-_WGA01189.jpg


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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 02-Sep-2012 at 05:34
Hans Holbein, The Dance Of Death, 1538.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Holbein-death.png - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Holbein-death.png


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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 13-Sep-2012 at 07:56
"Apollo and Daphne" by Antonio del Pollaiolo. Painted in the late 15th century.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Antonio_del_Pollaiolo_Apollo_and_Daphne.jpg - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Antonio_del_Pollaiolo_Apollo_and_Daphne.jpg


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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 29-Sep-2012 at 09:42
David by Donatello, 1428-32

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Donatello_-_David_-_Floren%C3%A7a.jpg/372px-Donatello_-_David_-_Floren%C3%A7a.jpg - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Donatello_-_David_-_Floren%C3%A7a.jpg/372px-Donatello_-_David_-_Floren%C3%A7a.jpg


Posted By: ThaKing
Date Posted: 22-Nov-2012 at 09:44
 
What are the details of this Black christian god image?


Posted By: Nick1986
Date Posted: 22-Nov-2012 at 19:16
I think it's a Greek Orthodox image. Perhaps the winged hoops are representations of the "flying saucers" Ezekiel claimed to have seen

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Me Grimlock not nice Dino! Me bash brains!


Posted By: Ollios
Date Posted: 23-Nov-2012 at 11:27

Originally posted by ThaKing


 


Originally posted by Nick1986

I think it's a Greek Orthodox image. Perhaps the winged hoops are representations of the "flying saucers" Ezekiel claimed to have seen


Similar angel figure can be seen in Agia Sofia


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Ellerin Kabe'si var,
Benim Kabem İnsandır


Posted By: ThaKing
Date Posted: 26-Nov-2012 at 08:03
Originally posted by Ollios


Originally posted by ThaKing


 


Originally posted by Nick1986

I think it's a Greek Orthodox image. Perhaps the winged hoops are representations of the "flying saucers" Ezekiel claimed to have seen


Similar angel figure can be seen in Agia Sofia
 
Originally posted by Nick1986

I think it's a Greek Orthodox image. Perhaps the winged hoops are representations of the "flying saucers" Ezekiel claimed to have seen
 
The original site does not give details about its origins, that why I asked.
Do you notice the black god?
What are your ideas of a Black god in Europe?


Posted By: Caravaggioscrazy
Date Posted: 27-Dec-2012 at 11:04
http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/christian/images/Caravaggio-The-Supper-at-Emmaus-1600-01.jpg - http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/christian/images/Caravaggio-The-Supper-at-Emmaus-1600-01.jpg http://www.steveartgallery.se/upload1/file-admin/images/new16/Albrecht%20Durer-983659.jpg - http://www.steveartgallery.se/upload1/file-admin/images/new16/Albrecht%20Durer-983659.jpg


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Opinions are opinions


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 27-Jan-2013 at 20:03
Wisdom, by Titian, 1560



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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 08-Feb-2013 at 00:28
Originally posted by Ollios



  

That is a Seraph

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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 17-Feb-2013 at 18:36
Do you believe that you are withering away and imagine that death is staring back at you where ever you go? Mad now as it might seem, it is because you've been looking at this picture for too long.

The dance of death, by Vincent de Kastav, 1474



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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: LeopoldPhilippe
Date Posted: 07-May-2015 at 22:39
Eustache Le Sueur was a French Baroque Era painter (1616-1655).    
In 1652, he painted Jesus Carrying the Cross.     
The painting also includes St. Veronica holding the veil.    


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 28-Aug-2015 at 23:47
St Anne with the Virgin and the Child Embracing a Lamb(1520-1525)
-Francesco Melzi




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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 29-Aug-2015 at 22:00
Doesn't Rogier van der Weyden, in this captivating portrait, Portrait of a Lady, give the impression he's captured a very real person's passionate intensity? Absolutely fascinating! 

Portrait of a Lady, C1460







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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 31-Aug-2015 at 22:48
Three of my favourite pieces of art showing the likeness of Isabella d'Este by three different artists. The third piece, a terracotta bust is thought to be of the illustrious lady of the Italian renaissance. I shall leave it up to you to decide for yourself.

The first is by Titian, Portrait of Isabella d'Este, or Isabella in Black, c1534-36. Oil on canvas.


The second is a charming portrait of Isabella d'Este in the guise of Saint Justina of Padua. It is  a fragment from an altarpiece, painted in the 1490s by Bartolomeo Montagna.


The third is a terracotta bust by a sculptor Gian Cristoforo Romano, and probably of Isabella d'Este. c1500.



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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.


Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 12-Jul-2017 at 09:57
It's beautiful!


Posted By: john1565
Date Posted: 21-Feb-2018 at 16:36
Originally posted by TheAlaniDragonRising

The Creation of Adam, on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and painted by Michelangelo. On describing the fresco it has been described as thus, “Despite the height of the ceiling the proportions of the Creation of Adam are such that when standing beneath it, “it appears as if the viewer could simply raise a finger and meet those of God and Adam”.

 
It is a very famous picture I guess. I have seen only part of this before. This one is clearer. Thanks



 


Posted By: IanZonja
Date Posted: 11-Apr-2018 at 06:16
Portrait of a Young Man , 1514, lost during WWII. Possible self-portrait by Raphael.


When Raphael was 11 or 12 years old, Giovanni Santi died, leaving his son an orphan (Raphael’s mother had died when he was 7 or 8 years old, and Giovanni Santi re-married). Thus, Raphael came under the guardianship of an uncle, a priest by the name of Bartolomeo. The earliest known example of Raphael’s work was produced around this time of the artist’s life, a self-portrait that he painted at the age of 15 or 16. In addition, Giovanni Santi’s workshop continued to be in operation, under the management of Raphael, who was probably working together with his stepmother.



Posted By: Ricky0123
Date Posted: 19-Mar-2019 at 06:39
The most lasting legacy of the Renaissance was probably the outstanding artwork it produced. Especially in Florence and Rome, master artists emerged who produced astonishing works of art in sculpture, painting and architecture. The competitive spirit of the Italian city-states as well as the enormous wealth of families willing to patronize created a perfect environment for the flourishing of art. 
One of the first artists to incorporate new ideas into his artwork was Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337) who brought unprecedented elements of realism in his paintings. Giotto, a typical Renaissance jack-of-all-trades, also designed the innovative campanile (bell tower) for the Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedralor simply "The Duomo" in Florence. Flemish artists introduced oil paints, and the technique of perspective was introduced by artists like Tommaso Masaccio and Filippo Brunelleschi. Brunelleschi also designed the duomo (dome) for the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral, a breakthrough in engineering and architecture that showed Brunelleschi’s deep understanding of mathematics. 
Donatello (1386-1466) was an influential painter and sculpture of the early Renaissance from Florence. He sculpted a bronze “David,” the first free-standing nude statue since the days of the Greeks and Romans, and another famous statue of St.George. Titian (Tiziano Vicelli) (1477-1576) was a painter with an unprecedented use of color and loose brushwork, evident in his stunning masterpiece The Assumption of the Virgin. Raphael (1482-1520) also mastered the use of color and painted beautiful frescoes in churches and for private patrons, the most famous of which may be The School of Athens, an interesting painting depicting Plato and Aristotle surrounded by their pupils. He inspired the two greatest artists of the Renaissance: Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci. 
Michelangelo (1475) is best known for his statue of David and for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, an astounding fresco including over 300 Biblical figures, that took over 4 years to complete. He also sculpted amazing renditions of Moses and “the Pietà,” a poignant sculpture of Jesus in Mary’s arms after the crucifixion. Following Brunelleschi’s model Duomo in Florence, Michelangelo designed the dome for St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Although some say his earlier works (like David) reveal a humanistic outlook, later works (like the Pietà) reveal his deep and devout Christianity.  
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) embodied the “Renaissance man.” He was an architect, anatomist, sculptor, scientist, mathematician, musician, and painter. He created masterpieces such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. He kept notebooks full of drawings such as Vitruvian Man, and his observations from dissecting human corpses. It is said that Leonardo could draw with one hand while at the same time painting with the other, and he wrote backwards in his notebooks, so they would have to be held up to a mirror to be read. He was way ahead of his time and created conceptual designs for many devices such as a flying machine and an armored tank. He was the first to come up with the ideas of the calculator and the use of solar power for energy. http://https://artscolumbia.org/essays/what-is-art-essay-42533/ - check it for now more 



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