Raphael

Michelangelo Michelangelo's knowledge in painting, sculpting and drawing influenced the way that western art was interpreted during the renaissance. All of this brought him to be in between the great artist of the Renaissance like Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael. Michelangelo was known as “the divine one” for his sculptures which had set a new standard for painting the human body, one in which he explains that the body was just an actor but emotionally and expressive on its own (“khan academy”).…

The Mona Lisa has fascinated and inspired painters, poets, scientists, singers, psychologists since its inception, even though so little is known with certainty about this painting. The mystery around the Mona Lisa feeds the imagination of many . So, it is not surprising that millions of people visit the Louvre in Paris every year to glance at this famous portrait realised by Leonardo Da Vinci between probably 1503 and 1506 . In the face of its well-established fame of today, it is…

The Importance of Raphael Lemkin’s Term ‘Genocide’ Genocide, popularly regarded as one of the worst crimes of humanity, is a relatively new phenomenon. The term itself had only recently been included in the modern English language since 1944, when it was coined by Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin as a reaction to the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust. As a relatively new concept, genocide is always in an urgent need of understanding from the public, since the masses plays an important role in both…

Leonardo da Vinci was an artist, mathematician, inventor, and writer. “Born on April 15, 1452, in Vinci, Italy, Leonardo da Vinci was the epitome of a ‘Renaissance man’” (Leonardo Da Vinci Biography). When he was about fourteen years old, as was custom during the time to work under the apprenticeship of a master, da Vinci studied under Andrea del Verrocchio. While in his apprenticeship he learned, “metalworking, leather arts, carpentry, drawing, painting, and sculpting” (Leonardo Da Vinci…

Society in the Age of the Renaissance”). The characteristics of High Renaissance art encompassed “classical balance, harmony, and restraint” (Aboukhadijeh, “European Society in the Age of the Renaissance”). Many artists such as Leonardo Da Vinci and Raphael were very famous during the Renaissance. However, compared to the other artists, Michelangelo is…

Tiziano Vecellio, better known as Titian, painted Venus and Adonis in about 1554; during a period known as the High Renaissance. Venus and Adonis is a workshop copy of one of Titian’s earlier paintings of the same name, created as a part of a six-piece series commissioned by King Phillip II of Spain. Titian called the paintings in this series ‘poesie’, or poems, because each illustrates a mythological story inspired by ‘Metamorphoses’ by the Roman poet Ovid. Titian’s other works in this series…

and lasted in 16th century when Michelangelo died. In this era, there where several technical innovations such as the invention of oil painting, the use of Chiaroscuro, and the use of perspectives in paintings. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael are the so called “the three giants” who were very influential and well known for their works. Some of the well known features of renaissance art was the use of linear perspective, aerial perspective, sfumato, and chiaroscuro. In this paper, I…

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (Sandro Botticelli) was an Italian painter in the beginning of the Renaissance. His work predates some other famous artists such as Raphael or Michelangelo. Born March 4, 1445, Botticelli was the son of a tanner and was originally trained as a goldsmith. It was not until he met Fra Filippo Lippi that Botticelli learned to paint. In 1470, Botticelli was an independent master for his creation of the Fortitude that completed the series of Seven Virtues.…

Raffaello Sanzio was born on April 6th, 1483 in Urbino, Italy. He began painting in 1504 as an apprentice under Perugino. Raphael is best known for his series of “Madonnas” he painted while in Rome and in 1514, Pope Julius II hired him as his chief architect. A Madonna is Christin religious art, especially the depiction of the Virgin Mary. At he time he was hired as the Pope’s chief architect, he had just finished his last work in a famous series of Madonnas, an oil painting by the name of…

Bernard Berenson was born in Lithuania in 1865, and moved to America when he was 9 years old. Berenson studied art history at Harvard on scholarship, and set off traveling Europe in 1887 with monetary help from patrons, specifically Isabella Stewart Gardner. When money started to run out Berenson still desired to stay in Europe, so he became active in the art market. In 1890 England, Berenson met his future wife, Mary Smith, and with her collaboration, began writing books on Italian art. His…