All posts tagged "renaissance"
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Bodies And Erotic Art
Celebrating the Male Body in Renaissance Florence
June 17, 2019The adoration of a male body was an inspiration for many artists and there’s no medium...
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dailyart
Perseus and the Head of Medusa – A Very Florentine Story
May 22, 2019Benvenuto Cellini’s Perseus and the Head of Medusa is a sculpture that is commonly overlooked. In...
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Artist
Painting of the Week: Artemisia Gentileschi, Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria
March 24, 2019Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 – c. 1656) was ‘one of the best Italian Baroque painters.’ Despite this, you...
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Women Artists
The Surprising Career of Lavinia Fontana: Painter of Popes, Nudes, and Noblewomen
November 23, 2018There weren’t very many women able to become successful artists in Renaissance Europe. There were probably...
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Art Travels
Florence’s Secret Spot: Colosso Dell’Appennino
October 20, 2018A 30-minute drive from central Florence lies a true Tuscan secret: the sixteenth-century sculpture Colosso Dell’Appennino...
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Middle Ages
Let It Be: The Annunciation In Medieval And Renaissance Christian Art
August 28, 2018Religious themes in art have prevailed throughout time. Whether it is Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, or Hinduism...
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Sculpture
Laocoön: The Work of a Lifetime
August 27, 2018The subject The statue “Laocoon and his sons”, attributed to Greek sculptors Agesander, Athenodorus and Polydorus,...
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Painting of the Week
Painting of the Week – The Merode Altarpiece by Robert Campin
July 8, 2018Today’s painting of the week is the Merode Altarpiece by the workshop of Robert Campin, c....
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Ancient Greece
Calumny of Apelles – Botticelli’s Final Painting
May 24, 2018Botticelli’s final painting with a mythological subject is based on a lost painting by an ancient...
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Art History 101
Ladies In Red – Famous Red Dresses In Art
May 26, 2017Red in art history symbolizes many things. First of all, it was a color of power,...
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