Showing posts with label Renaissance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Renaissance. Show all posts
Textual description of firstImageUrl

Leonardo da Vinci e Michelangelo

Il rapporto tra i due geni del Rinascimento, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) e Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), fu difficile, spesso teso, a causa della differenza generazionale (Michelangelo era di 23 anni più giovane di Leonardo), ma soprattutto, per via dei caratteri diversi e degli ideali artistici inconciliabilmente lontani: il primo fu riflessivo, poliedrico e interessato al mondo naturale; il secondo più impulsivo, notoriamente riottoso ed idealista.
Non vi sono prove dirette della loro inimicizia, ma svariati indizi e testimonianze indirette.


Textual description of firstImageUrl

Michelangelo Buonarroti | Sculpture

Michelangelo's (1475-1564) earliest sculpture was made in the Medici garden near the church of San Lorenzo; his Bacchus and Sleeping Cupid both show the results of careful observation of the classical sculptures located in the garden.
His later Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs and Madonna of the Stairs reflect his growing interest in his contemporaries.


Textual description of firstImageUrl

Master of the Story of Griselda (active 1490-1500)

The Master of the Story of Griselda was an Italian artist who specialized in panel paintings.
He worked in Umbria around 1490 and probably spent time in Siena.
There is no evidence of him after 1500.
He received his notname from a group of paintings depicting the story of Griselda, as recounted by Giovanni Boccaccio in his Decameron.

Master of the Story of Griselda | Joseph of Egypt or Eunustos of Tangara c.1493-4 | National Gallery of Art, Washington

Textual description of firstImageUrl

Masaccio raccontato da Giorgio Vasari

Costume della Natura, quando ella fa una persona molto eccellente in alcuna professione, molte volte non la far sola: Ma in quel tempo medesimo, et vicino a quella, farne un’altra a sua concorrenza; a cagione, che elle possino giovare l’una all’altra nella virtù, e nella emulazione.
La qual cosa, oltra il singular giovamento di quegli stessi, che in ciò concorrono; accende ancora oltra modo, gli animi di chi viene dopo quella età, a sforzarli con ogni studio, et con ogni industria, di pervenire a quello honore, e a quella gloriosa reputazione, che ne’ passati, tutto ’l giorno altamente sente lodare.


Textual description of firstImageUrl

Amore non è amore se muta.. | Shakespeare, Sonetto 116

Shakespeare | Let me not to the marriage of true minds | Sonnet 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

Alessandro Puttinati | Paolo e Virginia, 1844

Textual description of firstImageUrl

Fra Filippo Lippi (1406-1469)

Fra Filippo di Tommaso Lippi, detto fra Filippo è stato un pittore Italiano del Rinascimento.
Personalità inquieta, divisa tra passioni e condizione di religioso, compì un percorso artistico improntato ad una continua e felice sperimentazione delle grandi novità elaborate in quel periodo a Firenze: dalla lezione masaccesca alla sapiente spazialità prospettica, ai valori di luce e di colore dell'Angelico.
Tra le sue opere più significative si ricordano l'Incoronazione della Vergine (1441-1447 circa).


Textual description of firstImageUrl

Cenacolo di Leonardo: "Uno di voi mi tradirà" / "One of you will betray me"!

The Last Supper, painted between 1494 and the beginning of 1498, is considered perhaps the most important mural painting in the world, "a beautiful and marvelous thing", as Giorgio Vasari wrote in his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, in which he speaks of Leonardo and describes the Last Supper.
Painter, architect, sculptor, engineer, inventor, mathematician, anatomist and writer, Leonardo da Vinci embodied the ideal of the many-sided man dreamed of by the Italian Renaissance.

Leonardo da Vinci | The Last Supper, 1494-1498 (detail) | Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie

Textual description of firstImageUrl

Marco d'Oggiono | Elevazione della Maddalena, 1522-1524

Elevazione della Maddalena was created in 1522-1524 by Marco d'Oggiono (1470-1540), Italian Renaissance painter and a chief pupil of Leonardo da Vinci.
The painting, measuring cm 146x103, is part of the collection of the Pinacoteca Brera, Milano.
The artwork, on a stylistic level is noted for, other than Leonardo’s influences, also the peaceful sweetness of Raphael and the sensuality of Correggio, represents Saint Mary Magdalene elevated to heaven by a multitude of angels.

Marco d'Oggiono | Elevazione della Maddalena, 1522-24 | Pinacoteca Brera, Milano

Textual description of firstImageUrl

Bertolt Brecht | Of all the works of man / Tra tutte le opere

Of all the works of man I like best
Those which have been used.

The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges
The knives and forks whose wooden handles
Have been worn away by many hands: such forms
Seemed to me the noblest.

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) | Crouching Boy, 1524 | Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Textual description of firstImageUrl

The Prado Mona Lisa, 1507-1516

This version of the Mona Lisa (Louvre) was painted by one of Leonardo’s pupils.
The fact that each pentimento, or change, in Leonardo’s original (to the bust, outline of the veil and position of the fingers) is repeated here suggests that the two works were created simultaneously.
There are also differences with respect to the original, in the unfinished landscape and on the face.
Overall, the panel seems to reflect an intermediate stage in the creation of the Louvre painting.

Prado Mona Lisa, 1503-1516 | Museo Nacional del Prado

Textual description of firstImageUrl

Christopher Marlowe | Vieni a vivere con me e sii il mio amore / The passionate shepherd to his Love, 1599

"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" (1599), by Christopher Marlowe (English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era, 1564-1593), is a pastoral poem from the English Renaissance (1485–1603).
Marlowe composed the poem in iambic tetrameter (four feet of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable) in six stanzas, and each stanza is composed of two rhyming couplets; thus the first line of the poem reads: "Come live with me and be my love".

Come live with me, and be my love;
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountains yields.

Walter Crane | The Passionate Shepherd to his Love illustration

Textual description of firstImageUrl

Francesco Salviati | Christ Carrying the Cross, 1547-1548

The "Christ Carrying the Cross" is a painting by Italian painter Francesco Salviati, executed in 1547-1548. The painting is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.
The small size of the painting indicates that it was intended for a bedroom or private chapel.
It focuses on a close-up of Christ’s face, as he makes his way towards Mount Calvary with the cross on his shoulder.

Francesco Salviati (1509-1563) | Christ Carrying the Cross, 1547-1548 | Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Textual description of firstImageUrl

Raphael | The Deposition, 1507

The Deposition, also known as the Pala Baglioni, Borghese Entombment or The Entombment, is an oil painting by the Italian High Renaissance painter Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483-1520), now generally known in English as Raphael.
Signed and dated "Raphael. Urbinas. MDVII", the painting is in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. Commissioned by Atalanta Baglioni in memory of her son Grifonetto, the panel, encapsulates a story of love, loss, and devotion.


Textual description of firstImageUrl

Antonio Allegri detto il Correggio | Vita ed opere


Antonio Allegri detto il Correggio (Correggio, agosto 1489 - Correggio, 5 marzo 1534) fu un pittore Italiano.
Prendendo spunto dalla cultura del Quattrocento e dai grandi maestri dell'epoca, quali Leonardo, Raffaello, Michelangelo e Mantegna, inaugurò un nuovo modo di concepire la pittura ed elaborò un proprio originale percorso artistico, che lo colloca tra i grandi del Cinquecento.

Textual description of firstImageUrl

Andrea del Sarto | I disegni


Andrea del Sarto - Pittore, nato a Firenze il 6 luglio 1486 da Angiolo di Francesco sarto, donde il cognome assunto insieme con uno stemma di due seste incrociate.
Da Andrea d'Angiolo od Angeli alla latina deriva anche la sigla di due A incrociate, che si trova su varî dipinti di del Sarto, la quale, supposta da G. Cinelli (Bellezze di Firenze, Firenze 1677) composta di A e V, ne avvalorò lungamente la credenza in un casato Vannucchi.

Egli fu posto a sette anni presso un orefice, indi presso un pittore dozzinale, Giovanni o meglio Andrea Barile, che avvedutosi della meravigliosa attitudine di del Sarto per il disegno lo acconciò con Piero di Cosimo, presso il quale rimase varî anni, recandosi le feste alla sala del papa per studiare i celebri cartoni di Leonardo da Vinci e di Michelangelo.

Textual description of firstImageUrl

Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina | Saint Catherine, 1510

This is one of the Spanish Renaissance's most emblematic depictions of a female figure and the best known of Yáñez de la Almedina’s works.
Both considerations are due to the visibility this work has received at the Museo del Prado, where it has been one of the essential icons in its galleries of 16th-century Spanish painting ever since it arrived in 1946.


Textual description of firstImageUrl

Ambrogio de Predis | Portrait of a Lady, 1490

The first time Leonardo da Vinci’s name resounded in the Ambrosiana, it was through the pen of its founder, Cardinal Federico Borromeo, who attributed this little panel to the great Master, describing it as “A portrait of a Duchess of Milan, by the hand of Leonardo”.
Following the Cardinal’s statement, the portrait was for long assumed to depict Beatrice d’Este, the wife of Ludovico il Moro.

Ambrogio de Predis | Ritratto di una dama (probabile ritratto di Beatrice d'Este) | Veneranda Pinacoteca Ambrosiana Milano

Textual description of firstImageUrl

Federico Barocci | Aeneas fleeing Troy / La fuga di Enea da Troia, 1598

Aeneas Fleeing from Troy is a painting by Federico Barocci (Federico Fiori), located in the Borghese Collection in Rome.

History

Considering Barocci’s only attempt at a historical narration, this scene was twice ordered by the Della Rovere family as a gift for their further social connection.
The first, now lost, the artwork was intended for the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Rudolph II.
The second was given to Cardinal Scipione Borghese, adapting the imperial allegory as a scene of the spiritual purity of the Roman Cardinal.

Federico Barocci | Aeneas fleeing Troy, 1598 | Galleria Borghese

Textual description of firstImageUrl

Paolo Veronese | Pittore Rinascimentale

Paolo Caliari (o Cagliari) (1528-1588) prese il cognome Veronese dalla sua città natale, Verona.
Fu un famoso pittore del Rinascimento, il cui lavoro a Venezia fu magistrale.
Insieme ad altri artisti veneziani, come Tiziano (1485-1576) e Tintoretto (1518-1594), Veronese fu uno degli artisti di spicco in città.
Rappresentativo della scuola veneziana, Veronese fu un colorista eccezionale, che dipinse elaborati cicli narrativi in un drammatico stile manierista.


Textual description of firstImageUrl

Leonardo da Vinci | La Bellezza, la Grazia, la Convenienza e la Misura

Delle elezione de’ corpi

Le veglie della invernata deono essere da’ giovani usate nelli studi de le cose apparecchiate la state.
Cioè che tutti li nudi che hai fatti la state riducerli insieme, e fare elezione delle migliori membra e corpi di quegli, e metterli in pratica e bene a mente.