Showing posts with label Italian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italian. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Italian Painters Giorgione and Masaccio

We have been gifted many talented artists from Italy over the years and this article concentrates on two of the very best - namely Giorgione and Masaccio who came in the Renaissance era where so much innovation was being contributed to the European art scene.

Famous paintings by artist Masaccio included Adam and Eve, Vanished from Paradise, Holy Trinity, Adam and Eve, Brancacci Chapel, Crucifixion, Dispute with Simon Mago, First Bishop of Antioch, Healing of the Cripple, Holy Trinity Fresco, King of Antioch, Madonna and Child with St Anne, Raising of the Son of Theophilus, Resurrection Oftabitha, San Cristoforo, St Peter Enthroned, St Peter Healing the Sick with His Shadow, St Peter in Jail, St Peter in the Teachers Chair, St Peter Resurrects the Child of Theophilus, St Roch in Prison, Tahiti Girl and Tribute Money.

Famous paintings by painter Giorgione included The Tempest, Sleeping Venus, Castelfranco Madonna, The Three Philosophers, The Test of Fire of Moses, The Judgement of Salomon, Judith Adoration of the Shepherds, Madonna and Child Enthroned between St. Francis and St. Nicasius, Portrait of a Young Bride (Laura), La Vecchia (Old Woman), Pastoral Concert, Portrait of a Youth and Portrait of Warrior with his Equerry.

Certainly find out more about these great artists if you get the chance as there is an awful lot more to enjoy besides just all of the information and discussion that we have added here in this brief goarticle which purely aims to draw these artists to the attention of as many people as possible. There are endless art resources online which you can use to research more about many different Italian Renaissance artists and each will have it's own strengths, so it is well worth checking out several different ones to get the best possible amount of information that you can.

There are some beautiful copies of Giorgione and Masaccio paintings out there which are really worth checking out including some fantastic giclee art prints, including framed options, plus also posters and stretched canvases with a whole host of options to suit practically any taste.

We can simply conclude by urging you to throw yourself into the incredible art which came from the Italian Renaissance and try to understand which qualities it was from these artists that ensured it's legacy which spread quickly to all other parts of Europe over the coming years. It is great to see that artists like Giorgione and Masaccio remain so popular all these years later.

Friday, April 20, 2012

Famous Italian Renaissance Artists

It is not easy to forget the impact made by the Renaissance artists as it is all around us now. The art movements which have arrived over the recent generations will all have had influences from this period which brought in huge amounts of innovation in ways that had not been seen before.

This Goarticle will outline some of the most famous Italian Renaissance artists and also comment on others who came from outside this boundary, but whose careers were still highly significant to the development of European art around this period.

The Renaissance was seperated into several different periods which all brought their own strengths to this overall umbrella movement and this was all then later replaced by the Baroque movement which pushed things on again, but probably did not manage to make as much progress as the Renaissance had done some years earlier.

This movement helped to put some incredible names in the public eye, and they went onto to stretch their talents far and wide, taking in all sorts of different disciplines as they looked to take their ambitions as far as they could go. Inventions, architecture and drawing are just some of the other elements which joined painting in this large movement which quickly spread right across Europe.

More and more people are finding this period accessible after initially finding it too traditional. People appears to be taking the time to understand why this era was so important and why the masters like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo are considered to have been so talented. Some of the key countries who joined Italy in the Renaissance included Britain, Germany, Netherlands, Spain and France although many more also made significant contributions.

Italy will always be best remembered for this art movement, with much coming from the major artistic centres of Venice, Rome and Florence which continues to make these cities fantastic places to visit because of all of the art that they still hold in permanent collections.

Find reproductions of exceptional Renaissance paintings from the most famous artists at your next chance because they really have so much to offer and can really liven up a room with a touch of class. There is also a great selection available from a large number of different artists right across the continent. Italians are always the best place to start, though, and a visit to the likes of Florence will make you realise that there is still a strong influence from this period with in Italy.

Learn more about the most famous Italian renaissance artists at Renaissanceartists.org.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

18th Century Italian Art in Verona until April 9th

The countdown has started for the end of Il Settecento a Verona, the exhibition that since November 26th and still until April 9th introduces its visitors to the rich artistic period of the eighteenth century in the city of Romeo and Juliet. The showing entitled "The nobility of painting" focuses on the contribution to Italian art that has resulted from the Settecento in the city and how Verona differentiated itself once again from the powerful influence of Venice.

In the Verona art galleries of Palazzo della Gran Guardia it is therefore possible to discover the work of artists from city like Antonio Rotrari and Giambettino Cignaroli, to whom organizers have dedicated a vast space where visitors can see paintings, designs and old documents that help reconstruct the story of art in Verona.

Among these works, some of the portraits that made Rotari famous and that won him not only Catherine the Great , Empress of Russia's respect, but also that of the vast majority of the European artistic community." The portraits of young females showcased in the exhibition surprise for its capacity of transmitting the feelings and the various models' state of mind.

Il Settecento a Verona also dedicates a special space to the Venetian artist Giambattista Tiepolo, one of the most significant representatives of the art from Italy in the century of lights and who exported the prosperity of Italian art in countries like Spain.

Within the Tiepolo room it is particularly interesting to see the virtual representation of "Trionfo di Ercole", Hercules' Triumph, a fresco painted in 1760 that was destroyed during the Second World War that has been rebuilt thanks to photographic documentation and new technologies. The fresco is now visible as it should have been in the ceiling of the Palazzo Canossa in Verona, its original place.

The Veneto Region was, in fact, one of the most important centers in all of Italy for the development of this movement that overcame the previous period starting in the seventeenth century when the region started differentiating itself from the rest of the country mostly in terms of color palettes.

Another section is dedicated to the genre of veduta, a movement originated in the 1500 that flourished in the eighteenth century and that meant the upgrade of landscapes from background image to true stars of paintings that are now showcased as some of the main works of art and what to see in Verona guides.
Among these, some of the works painted by Luca Carlevarijs and Bernardo Bellotto.

The exhibition that is going to remain open until April 9th in Verona is one of extreme importance for the richness of works it shows, and is of mandatory visit for lovers art lovers who find themselves in Verona during the months of Spring.