Title: Madonna And Child Enthroned
Artist: Giotto
Culture/Period: Italian/Late Gothic
Material: Tempera And Gold on Wood
Date: 1310
Location: NA
Signification Point Of Fact: The painting is created with space creating techniques and 3D depths.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Madonna And Child Enthroned
Title: Madonna And Child Enthroned
Artist: Giotto
Culture/Period: Italian/Late Gothic
Material: Tempera And Gold on Wood
Date: 1310
Location: NA
Signification Point Of Fact: The painting is created with space creating techniques and 3D depths.
Interior: Church of Santo Spirito Artist:
Title: Interior: Church of Santo Spirito
Artist: Brunelleschi
Culture/Period:French/Gothic
Material: NA
Date: Began 1434
Location: Florence
Signification Point Of Fact: Like Roman style it have common on the side of the building with round arch.
Tribute Money
Title: Tribute Money
Artist: Masaccio
Culture/Period: Italian/Early Renaissance
Material: Fresco
Location: Brancacci Chapel, Santa del Carmine, Florence
Date: c 1425
Signification Point Of Fact: Painting shows that tax collector trying to collect tax from Chirst and his follower.
Equestrian Portrait Of Gattamelata
Title: Equestrian Portrait Of Gattamelata
Artist: Donatello
Culture/Period: Italian/Late Gothic
Material: Bronze
Date: 1445 - 1450
Location: Piazzadel Santo Padua, Italy
Signification Point Of Fact: A bronze sculpture of a man mounted on a horse influences by ancient Roman sculpture.
Portrait of Battista Sforza
Title: Portrait of Battista Sforza
Artist: Piero della Francesca
Culture/Period: Italian/Early Renaissance
Material:Oil and Tempera On Wood
Date: 1475
Location: NA
Signification Point Of Fact: Portrait Of Battista Sforza is part of the Federico III da Montefeltro portrait.
The Ghent Altarpiece (open)
Title: The Ghent Altarpiece (open)
Artist: Jan Van Eyck
Material: Oil On Wood
Culture/Period: Italian/High Renassiance
Date: 1475
Location: Cathedral of St Bavon, Ghent, Belgium
Signification Point Of Fact: The lamb in the lower center panel show the sacrifice of a lamb, it stands for the sacrifice of Christ.
Mona Lisa
Title: Mona Lisa
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Culture/Period:Italian/High Renassiance
Material:Oil On Wood
Date: 1503 - 1505
Location: NA
Signification Point Of Fact: In background, the complete cycle of geography is used.
David
Title: David
Artist: Gainlorenzo Bernini
Culture/Period:Italian/Baroque
Material: Marble
Date: 1623
Location: NA
Signification Point Of Fact: David is ready to throw stone with the string at the gaint.
Calling Of St. Matthew
Title: Calling Of St. Matthew
Artist: Caravaggio
Culture/Period: Italian/Baroque
Material: Oil On Canvas
Date: 1599 - 1600
Location: Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome
Signification Point Of Fact: In the painting high contrast on light and dark color.
Self Portrait Leaning On A Stone Sill
Title: Self Portrait Leaning On A Stone Sill
Artist: Rembrandt
Culture/Period: Dutch/Baroque
Material: Etching and Drypoint
Date: 1639
Location: NA
Siginificat Point Or Fact: A self portrait that Rembrandt did himself.
Oath Of The Horatii
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Title: Oath Of The Horatii
Artist: JL David
Culture/Period: French/Neo - Classical
Material: Oil On Canvas
Location: NA
Date: 1784 - 1785
Significant Point Or Fact: The painting illustrates a pledge of loyalty to the Roman republic.
Title: Oath Of The Horatii
Artist: JL David
Culture/Period: French/Neo - Classical
Material: Oil On Canvas
Location: NA
Date: 1784 - 1785
Significant Point Or Fact: The painting illustrates a pledge of loyalty to the Roman republic.
The Raft Of The Medusa
Title: The Raft Of The Medusa
Artist: Gericault
Material: Oil On Canvas
Date: 1819
Culture/Period: French/Romanticism
Siginificant Point Or Fact: Painting shows some of the figures robot and some thin looking.
Exercutions of 3 May 1808
Title: Exercutions of 3 May 1808
Artist: Francisco Goya
Culture/Period: French/Romanticism
Material: Oil On Canvas
Date: 1814
Location: NA
Significant Point Or Fact: High contrast light focus on the group of people being executed.
The Stonebreakers
Title: The Stonebreakers
Artist: Gustave Courbet
Culture/Period: French/Realism
Material: Oil On Canvas
Date: 1849
Significant Point Or Fact: Shows a passage of time between the two figures.
Impression: Sunrise
Title: Impression: Sunrise
Artist: Claude Monet
Culture/Period: French/Impressionism
Material: Oil On Canvas
Date: 1872
Significant Point Or Fact: The strokes of painting seemed like careless strokes as it tries to capture the extract color of the moment.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Empress Theodora And Her Court
Christ As The Good Shepherd
Title:Christ As The Good Shepherd
Date: 2nd - 3rd Century
Culture/Period: Rome/Early Christian
Material: Fresco
Location: Rome
Significant Point Or Fact: An underground painting of Christ in the Catacombs for performng funerary rites.
Pantheon Temple
Title: Pantheon Temple
Date: 125 AD
Culture/Period: Rome
Artist/Architect: NA/Early Medieval
Material: Concrete, Brick, and Marble
Location: Rome
Significant Point Or Fact: Pantheon is a temple built (in its present form) cicra 125 AD, and dedicate to all Roman gods, now a Christan church.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Procession With Spoils From The Temple Of Jerusalem
Title: Procession With Spoils From The Temple Of Jerusalem
Date: 81 AD
Culture/Period: Rome/Senate
Artist/Architect:
Material: Marble
Location: Rome
Significant Point Or Fact:In Ancient Rome, successful military leaders were given a "Triumph", which was a sort of parade of their soldiers, manacled prisoners, and spoils from their campaigns. The procession usually ended at the Senate, where the military man was made First Consul, the highest position of authority under the emperor.
Fight Between Lapith And Centaur
Title: Fight Between Lapith And Centaur Methope from Parthenon Temple
Date: 448 - 432 BC
Culture/Period: Greece/Classical
Material: Marble
Location: Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Significant Point Or Fact: A high relief craving. People are able to tell the details when they are at distance.
Parthenon Tenple
Title: Parthenon Temple
Date: 447 - 433 BC
Culture/Period: Greece/Classical
Artist/Architect: Ikitnos And kallikrates
Material: Marble
Location: Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Significant Point Of Fact: The Parthenon is a temple of the Greek goddess Athena whom people of Athens considered their protector.
Spearbearer
Title: Spearbearer
Date: 440BC
Culture/Period: Roman marble copy of Greek bronze original
Artist/Architect: Polykeitos
Material: Marble
Location: NA
Significant Or Fact: The right feet is stepping forward and the left is slghtly bend, know as the contrapposto pose.
Lion Gate
Title: Lion Gate
Date: 1400 - 1300 BC
Culture/Period: Greek/Early Bronze Age
Artist/Architect: NA
Material: Limestone
Location: Mycenae, Greece
Significant Point Or Fact: The lion at the gate stands for power as guardians of the entrances.
Menkaure And Queen
Title: Menkaure And Queen
Date: 2548 - 2530 BC
Culture/Period: Egypt/Old Kingdom
Artist/Architect: NA
Material: State
Location: NA
Significant Point Or Fact: Menkaure assumes the classic pose for men in Egyptian art, striding forward, his left leg advanced, arms rigid by his sides. He wears the royal headcloth (nemes), kilt, and false beard. The queen also steps forward, clasping Mycerinus in traditional gesture of intimacy and respect.
Great Pyramids At Giza
Title: Great Pyramids At Giza
Date: The Pyramids Of Khufu (c2601 - 2528 BC)
The Pyramids Of Khafe (c2570 - 2544 BC)
The Pyramids Of Menkaure (c2533 - 2515 BC)
Culture/Period: Egypt/Old Kingdom
Artist/Architect: NA
Material: Sandstone and Limestone
Location: Giza, Egypt
Significant Point Or Fact: Khufu's pyramid - the largest of the three - was over twice as high as Zoser's step pyramid at Saqqarra.
Palette Of Narmer
Title: Palette Of Narmer
Date: c 310 BC
Culture/Period: Egypt/Old Kingdom
Artist/Architect: NA
Material: State
Location: NA
Significant Point Or Fact: The front call upper Egypt because Narmer is wearing a white crown. The reserve side is called the Lower Egypt because the Pharaoh is wearing the red crown.
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