BVA312, Art History, week 2

BVA312, Art History, week 2.

Italian Renaisance... 
(14th century to 17th century)
Sisters  Wendy's story of painting part 3 of 10 (youtube) ...

Brancacci chapel

Masaccio’s Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden

This is a painting showing Adam and Eve being expelled from the Garden of Eden. She explains how the females sexuality is trying to be covered while her face is still being shown. With the resemblance of a skull. while she states that the manliness of Adam is uncovered while his face is covered giving a human perspective of "Dignity".

Annunciation (Fra Angelico, Madrid)
Soft angelic paintings, showing no vain but beauty.

The Oculus

Andrea Mantegna

"Classical world was fashionable."

Gives a eye perspective, shows a very pin pointed painting. Fresco painting that master the perspective of looking straight up.

Sistine Chapel : Michael Angelo

He didn't know he could paint until he created the Sistine Chapel, He considered himself a sculptor and not a painter. "The Creation of Adam" is one of 9 ceiling paintings of the Sistine chapel. Depicting various scenes of the book of genesis.

Bacchus And Ariadne by Titian
Considered himself the best painter in the Renaissance world. Created a visually mythological map, and impacted the renaissance world with the link of Mythology and Christianity.

Botticelli’s, ‘The Birth of Venus’

He was well known for his mythological creation of the Birth of Venus. Contrasting colors of the aqua blues and pale reds and salmon pinks giving it a depth of feel. 

Leonardo Da Vinci: Mona Lisa

Started sneaking in detailed backgrounds into the paintings. Theirs a theory that he put his own facial features in the Mona Lisa giving her various similarities of the creator/painter himself.