Urbino

the historical context of various artworks. “Love me tender: figuring out the real meaning behind Titian’s Venus of Urbino” by Katie Schiewetzs, explores and comments on Titian’s artworks and art practices through a structural and subjective frame. “Titian’s Venus of Urbino” is a historical writing by Art Historian Brenda Harness, is written in the structural and cultural frames meaning its aesthetics properties. Katie Schiewetz historical writing on Titian’s “Venus of Urbino” focuses on answering the question of “does the status of the woman really change the meaning of the work or the reaction to it?” She further exemplifies this question through concentrating on three interpretations; whether the woman depicted in Titian’s painting is a “Venetian courtesan, design to seduce”, “as a representation of Venus, mythological goddess of love and beauty” or “as a bride, celebrating married love.” Schiewetz answers the question through exploring each interpretation historically. Schiewetz begins her…

greatest Venetian artist of the sixteenth century, created Venus of Urbino and Édouard Manet’s, known as one of the most controversial artists in his time, Olympia are well known nude model paintings. However they have some similarities and differences according to their art. Titian (ca. 1488–1576) is an Italian painter from Venice. At a young age first he entered the workshop of Sebastiano Zuccato, who is a painter and mosaic designer. After he entered Gentile and Giovanni Bellini brothers’…

The subjects to be analyzed and compared in this essay depict different variations of the Roman goddess of love, Venus. The first topic of concern involves the famous painting by the Italian master Titian, “Venus of Urbino” which was completed in 1538, attributed to the Renaissance era. The second piece, “Olympia” was inspired by the original painting “Venus of Urbino”, but instead Eduoard Manet, adjusted the character in the original painting, and added more drama, something which sparked…

Olympia is a painting by Édouard Manet, first exhibited at the 1865 Paris Salon Manet depicts a nude woman positioned in a similar pose to Titian’s “Venus of Urbino” (1538) – however, instead of painting a goddess, he shows a high class prostitute, making it a mockery. The model, Victorine Meurent, was working at the time the painting was first exhibited, which may have led to a few blushes since a few of the men had likely met her before. The painting depicts a nude white woman lying on a bed…

goddess of love, Venus, is frequently used as the perfect woman to gaze upon. Titian met the viewers’ attention when using Venus in his piece Venus of Urbino, 1538. However, another art painting attracted more attention when depicting a nude woman in a similar style of Venus, Olympia, 1863, by Edouard Manet. Manet’s use of a nude woman is considered blasphemy due to comparing a low class woman to a goddess. The viewers want to fantasize the ideal woman like Venus, but do not want to accept the…

version of her. The idealist version of the female nude and the gaze of the female nude are very close to the viewer. With the glaze of the woman almost on the viewer the The progression of the woman’s gaze throws out the painting of the nude woman. The most know nude woman in art history is the figure of the Venus Is the Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli, (1486), Uffizi Gallery, Florence, tempera on canvas, . This painting was a creation The work of Venus of Urbino was created in…

The following report will inform the different values in the following paintings; The Disputa – Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael), The Lamentation of the dead Christ- Andrea Mantegna and David- Leonardo Da Vinci. Each painting in any genre and time period contains a number of values connected to the artist and consequently determines its worth. The definition of a value in respects to art is ‘the regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something’. And…

idolized female, but painting real woman. We know she’s a real woman because of her features are not idolized. Manet has not painted her with a glowing skin tone, lushes lips, small feet and big eyes, he has painted a realistic woman of his era. When we look at Greek mythology nudes, they are perfected beauties. As here Manet has gone against the traditional idolized nude and has painted a realistic woman who hasn’t been idolized for perfection. When we look at Mamet’s Olympia she…

Europe emerged from the Dark Ages in about 1350 C.E., with a rebirth of artistic styles in the Greek and Roman tradition that lasted for centuries. The Renaissance saw depiction of human emotion, Christian imagery, and realism in portraying the human body. See Titian’s Venus of Urbino. A completely naked Venetian courtesan, Angela del Moro, reclines among feathery pillows and vibrant flowers in an elegant Italian palace. She gazes directly at the viewer with a look that makes this work, "the…

While most of Titian's nudes in his Poesie series serve as idealized, eroticized figures, “The Rape of Europa” serves as a divergent example. Europa is not an idealized, simple, composition and instead complicates the Poesie narrative with her naturalism. I intend to look into the contradictory analysis of this painting and use my own visual analysis of the painting in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to come to my conclusion. Some of the contradictory elements I have found in this painting…