Botticelli’s Birth of Venus
Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, c. 1484-86, tempera on canvas| ItalianRenaissance.org
The PowerPoint presentation is a standard way of sharing academic research in the art history field. Presentations are given at professional conferences, academic talks, and everyday classes at graduate and undergraduate college levels. Topics in art history will almost always be heavily visual, so it is important to know how …Continue reading| ItalianRenaissance.org
Every student who takes art history courses will sooner or later be assigned the task of writing a research paper. Sometimes your professor may assigned the specific topic you write on, but at other times you are responsible for formulating your own research idea. Developing this idea can make or …Continue reading| ItalianRenaissance.org
Changes in styles or movements in the history of art are often the result of gradual phenomena, so the creation of new works which signal sudden changes are particularly significant. One such work which art historians point to as signaling a turning point in Western sculpture is the pulpit for …Continue reading| ItalianRenaissance.org
The great painting in the Louvre entitled the Pastoral Concert (also the Pastoral Symphony and the Fête champêtre) is mysterious both in meaning and in authorship, but it has been one of the more influential paintings in the museum, particularly on nineteenth-century painters who came to Paris to see it. …Continue reading| ItalianRenaissance.org
In April of 1483, the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception commissioned Leonardo to paint the Virgin of the Rocks as part of an altarpiece for its chapel in the church of San Francesco Grande in Milan. The painting was done on a wooden panel which was meant to be placed …Continue reading| ItalianRenaissance.org
The Sistine Chapel is one of the most famous painted interior spaces in the world, and virtually all of this fame comes from the breathtaking painting of its ceiling from about 1508-1512. The chapel was built in 1479 under the direction of Pope Sixtus IV, who gave it his name …Continue reading| ItalianRenaissance.org
Donatello carved his statue of St. George for the guild of armorers and swordmakers in Florence. Like the statue of St. Mark, the statue of St. George was destined for the guild’s niche in the building of Orsanmichele. Because the guild was of average size, it could only afford a …Continue reading| ItalianRenaissance.org
Giovanni Bellini was one of the greatest Venetian painters of the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries, and he made a name for himself primarily through the production of religious devotional images and altarpieces. He painted a vast number of images of the Virgin and Child, of which over sixty survive to …Continue reading| ItalianRenaissance.org
The most famous section of the Sistine Chapel ceiling is Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam. This scene is located next to the Creation of Eve, which is the panel at the center of the room, and the Congregation of the Waters, which is closer to the altar. The Creation of Adam …Continue reading| ItalianRenaissance.org
Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, c. 1484-86, tempera on canvas| ItalianRenaissance.org
