Mary Cassatt’s The Child’s Bath is an oil painting on canvas. It portrays a mother taking care of her child’s health; they are both looking in the same direction towards the child’s feet as the mother gently cleans them. Although Cassatt used bold brush strokes, her attention to light and use of bright colors are ...
Many Florentine artists and writers used characteristics in their works that made each painting or piece of literature either medieval or Renaissance thinking. Many famous Florentine artist and writers lived from the middle ages to the Renaissance. There are characteristics of each artist or writer’s works that can clearly be categorized as medieval or Renaissance ...
Hear ye! Hear ye! Grand adventure and rousing revelry await you at a renaissance fair! And the wondrous state of Georgia offers a variety of festivals to attend. Georgia Renaissance Festival – Located approximately 20 miles southwest of Atlanta in Fairburn, Georgia. This fair will be held weekends and Memorial Day April 14th – June ...
Somewhere down the line you’re going to be asked to attend a high school graduation. And if such invitation is given, more than likely you’re expected to provide a graduation gift for the man or woman of the hour. Shopping for newly legal adults can be a bit delicate. Unless you have a very close ...
Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475 – 1546), a name forever etched in the books of history. On January 25, 1504, in Florence of Italy unveiled to the world his legacy (Crispino, 2001). One of the greatest pieces of art to come from the Renaissance era, Michelangelo’s David, was the reason for the fame and fortune that followed ...
The Italians call it Firenze, but by any name, it’s one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Florence, the capital of the region of Tuscany, was where the Renaissance evolved in the 15th and 16th centuries, primarily due to superb artists Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Donatello, and many others. They lived and ...
Any trip to Rome should always include a visit to the impressive Vatican. The Vatican Museums are some of the greatest in the world! The site actually consists of a collection of museums which are all interconnected. The Roman Catholic Church has built up this treasure trove of wonders throughout the centuries. On your visit ...
One of the great things about Renaissance art is that each artistic master had a distinctive style. Each one brought to their art a different perspective of the world, a different artistic mission, and a different personality. The four greatest art masters of the High Renaissance were Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titan. Leondardo ...
The painter Hieronymus Bosch was born in the Netherlands in the town ‘s-Hertogenbosch sometime between the years 1449 and 1456. Records show that his birth name was Jeroen or Jheronimus van Aken. In the days long before personal preference dictated a man’s future, the custom in Bosch’s day was that young men were to be ...
The Birth of Venus is a tempura on canvas painted by Sandro Botticelli. Botticelli (1444-1510) was a master of Renaissance Art. The Birth of Venus was one of Botticelli’s most famous works. It now hangs in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The painting shows Venus, the goddess of love, emerging from the sea on ...