Masaccio also know as Tommaso di Giovanni di Simone Cassai was born on December 21, 1401. Masaccio’s birthplace was San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy; near Florence. Tommaso was given the nickname Masaccio because it loosely translates to “Clumsy Tom”. He was known is his younger years for being absent minded about worldly affairs and careless when it came to his personal appearance. In the Renaissance time art was usually passed down from father to son, both Masaccio and his brother became artists even though none of their immediate family were. For several years boys some not even teens yet would be an apprentice to a master. One of the many things not known about Masaccio is who he apprenticed to. If historians knew who Masaccio apprenticed …show more content…
Many people first thought that Masaccio was Mosolino`s apprentice but that was not true and Masaccio regularly influenced Mosolino. Masaccio traveled with Mosolino to Rome when he was 21 to 23. During this time in Rome Masaccio dropped his gothic style and started going for a more naturalistic approach to his artwork by using neutral colors. In Rome, Masaccio supposedly did a series of frescoes but all of these are now lost. Mosolino began working at Brancacci Chapel two or three years before Masaccio. Because they both worked at the same place and had similar styles it is very difficult to which frescoes were painted by Masaccio and which ones were painted by Mosolino. In the Brancacci Chapel you can see a combination of perspective mixed with humanism. There are no records of any kind of social interactions with Masaccio. It has been thought that Masaccio has worked with Brunelleschi and that they collaborated on humanism and linear perspective in paintings. Since there is no evidence of any interaction between the two, there have also been hypothesis` of Masaccio just taking the ideas from Brunelleschi’s buildings. Masaccio’s works have never been doubted and have been called pure, unadorned and classic. His works are so significant that Alberti and Da Vinci studied his Carmine frescoes in order to learn the rules of
...is the focal point with the orthogonal of the gestures of the apostles lining up towards it. Masaccio makes good use of chiaroscuro, since his figures have soft, round edges and their bodies are apparent under their drapery. The drapery shows creases and edges which allow for that to happen. Masaccio also employs directed lighting in which the sun comes from the right and all the figures’ shadows are to the left, which is what would happen in real life. Furthermore, Masaccio uses soft, subdued colors, such as green, blue, and pink. The mood of Massacio’s painting is static with all the figures standing in contrapposto with their one knee sticking out and the individuals in Classical and naturalistic proportions. Masaccio placed his scene in the recognizable Arno Valley. Also, Masaccio’s story has no disguised symbolism and rather depicts a straightforward story.
Michelangelo Buonarroti was a man who desired to create. His art is impactful, reflects the time of the renaissance, and his growth as an artist. Michelangelo Buonarroti was born March 6,1475 in Caprese, Italy. His father was a government agent in Caprese and his mother died when he was six years old ("Michelangelo Buonarroti"). When Michelangelo was 13 he was an apprentice to a painter named Domenico Ghirlandaio. In addition to being an apprentice, he also studied sculpture with Bertoldodi Giovanni ("Michelangelo Buonarroti"); at 17 he created his earliest sculpture. Michelangelo was an ambitious artist who took on big projects. He was interested in human anatomy, engineering, painting, sculpture, architecture, and poetry (Bleiberg et al. 386-398). “Michelangelo was intensely religious and received inspiration from a deep sense of his own personal unworthiness and of his sinful nature”
Sandro Botticelli was born as Alessandro Fillipeli in the year of 1444. He was the son of a tanner (someone who tans animal hides). He lived in the city of Florence, Italy which was a very busy place during the Renaissance. Italy was the epicenter of the Renaissance and many famous Renaissance artisans and inventors came from Italy. Sandro Botticelli was a painter and started painting at the ag...
Michelangelo Amerigi, known in the art world as Caravaggio, was born in Caravaggio, in Lombardy, Italy. He was born into a somewhat successful family, in which his father worked as a mason. Growing up in Lombardy was not the most superlative place for a young artist. Luckily for him, Milan, Italy was nearby, and he took up studying art there. Shortly after that he moved to Rome, which was the center of the art world at the time, and began what was a most masterful career. Many of Caravaggio's paintings reflected his personality and character. As a young boy up until he was an old man, Caravaggio had a terrible temper, and was not afraid of confrontation or death. Many times it seemed as though he went out looking for a confrontation. In one instance, over a difference in a game of ball, he challenged another young man to a fight in which resulted in Caravaggio killing him with his sword. This was not the only confrontation though; there are several more documented throughout his life, in several different courts. Caravaggio’s attitude and character allowed himself to express some of the darker and naturally gruesome scenes of religion, mythology, and history. Unlike anyone else, his paintings captured an audience with his use of natural looking figures, dramatic situations, and with a powerful sense of immediacy.
...nbsp;As Martin describes, this work is "at once a masterpiece of dramatic narrative and an exercise in archaeological correctness; attitudes, costumes and furnishings...studied from the Antique." Carracci's ability to paint works such as this enabled him to become one of the more popular artists of the time.
A painter of the late Baroque School of Venice, Sebastiano Ricci was born in Belluno, Italy in 1659. In 1673, at the age of fourteen, he moved to Venice and began learning from the artist Frederico Cervelli, a Milanese painter, who helped him in establishing a solid foundation for his career as an artist. In 1681, he departed for Bologna in 1681 to study art extensively for fifteen years, where he learned to decorate, color, and integrate light effects in his works. In his return to Venice, Ricci mastered the art of color, light, outfits, and textures, having been heavily influenced by the artist Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole. After 1700, Sebastiano’s works became so famous that he was summoned to execute several commissions in Vienna and Florence,
CABAVAGGIO, ka'ra-va'jo, properly MichelAngelo Merisi or Mebisio (improperly Amerioi, Merioi, or. Mobigt) Da (c. 1565-1609). An eminent Italian painter, founder of the Naturalistic school. He is usually called after his birthplace Caravaggio, in the Province of Bergamo, where his father was master of the household and architect to the Marquis of Caravaggio. According to most recent research, he probably studied four or five years at Milan, perhaps with one of the Campi (q.v.), then passed some time in Venice. About 1585-87 he appeared in Rome, where he was for a time associated with Cesare d' Arpino and Prospero Orsi, but he persisted in going his own way. After much vicissitude he found a patron in Cardinal del Monte, which insured Mb success.
The last name Cassai most likely comes from his grandfather and great-uncle who were cabinet makers, casse in Italian, hence his last name Cassai. It was first thought that Masaccio was an apprentice to Masolino but it is more likely that Masaccio gained entrance to the painter 's guild before collaborating with Masolino and therefore could not have been his apprentice.Masaccio 's talent was well recognized from an early age by the painting community and the two painters probably worked together from a mutual contract and for artistic ends.In Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, commissioned for the Sant Ambrogio church in Florence, Masaccio 's soft and graceful style can be seen in the images of the Virgin and Child on a throne. These characters contrast with the heavier image of Saint Anne which characterizes Masolino 's style. This suggests that Masaccio indeed had a great part in the painting as he depicted the more important figures.The painting San Giovenale Triptych, is thought to have been created by Masaccio between 1420-21. It was discovered recently in 1961 and resides in a chapel on a hill sitting right above his home town. If it is indeed Masaccio 's first painting it would certainly precede Virgin and Child with Saint Anne. While living in Florence, it
Giovanni Bellini was born in Venice, Italy around 1430. He was the son of Jacopo Bellini, an esteemed painter at the time, and probably began his career along side his brother as an assistant in his father’s workshop. Though his artwork was influenced by many of his friends and relatives, Giovanni possessed certain qualities in his compositions which set him apart from the others. He blended the styles of both his father and brother-in-law, Andrea Mantegna, with his own subtle appreciation of color and light, the high regard he held for the detail of natural landscape, along with the very direct human empathy he placed in his painting. These components of Bellini’s personal style became foundational to the character of all Venetian Renaissance Art. Bellini later developed a sensuous coloristic manner in his work which became yet another characteristic he contributed to the Venetian Renaissance Art.
“The Met’s very own Mona Lisa” (Tomkins 9). That is what Duccio di Buoninsegna’s Madonna and Child painting is known as today. “The Metropolitan Museum of Art bought the Madonna and Child for forty-five to fifty million dollars” (Tomkins 1). However, the painting was not always in public hands; in fact, the Met purchased the last known work of Duccio in private hands. Originally, the painting was held in the private hands of Adolphe Stoclet and his wife. When the couple died, their house and their collection went to their son, Jacques who held onto the painting, and passed it down to his daughters who lent it to an exhibition in Siena of Duccio and his school. The painting was eventually withdrawn from the exhibition and sold (Tomkins 2). Madonna and Child painting dated 1300 and was painted by Duccio di Buoninsegna a Sienese painter, who is considered the founder of modern Italian painting. I chose to research this painting because the subject matter of religious imagery and symbols interests me. Also because when I looked at the painting the emotion on the Madonna’s face almost jumped out at me. It is as if, she is looking at her newborn child with this deep sadness, which almost makes you think that the painting is foreshadowing the death of Jesus Christ. In addition, the burns of the side of the frame peaked my interest, as to why they were there. Art critics were also interested in this work they even consider Madonna and Child one of Duccio’s perfect works, and it said to be worth all the other paintings exhibited under the name of Duccio (Christiansen 14). The Madonna and Child painting’s iconography, imagery, emotional appeal to the viewers, and meaning all make this painting still a great work of art today.
It seems fitting that for more than a century, the popular image of an angel has been that of an angel by Angelico. As historian Pope-Hennessy tells us - "the idiom he evolved has come to be regarded as the natural language of religious painting". (1) The impetus to research Fra Angelico's life comes from a deep respect for religious art . However, having grown up in the Catholic Church, stained glass windows and sculptures of religious figures were more familiar to me than religious paintings. An in-depth look at the life of one of the most familiar Italian artists was very appealing . Angelico's work was very well known in his own day, and throughout the entire Renaissance period it lost none of its luster and none of its influence over artists and art lovers. (2)
The development of Italian painting in the years around the 1300 or the proto-renaissance is in some sense the rebirth of art and culture. The painters of Renaissance Italy usually attached to particular courts and with loyalties to certain cities, still explored the extensive span of Italy. Many of the Italian painters grew artistically during this time, which is noticeable in Duccio’s painting compared to Giotto’s. In the renaissance period it was highly popularized to mainly draw depictions of religious figures, which is what the concentration of Duccio’s artwork mainly was. Before the painting of the Betrayal of Christ, Duccio’s paintings were highly composed and reliant upon the ancient tradition of icon painting. In the time around 1300 Duccio took steps toward depicting images in a more naturalistic form; Whereas, Giotto, in the 1300’s, was already established as painting more three-dimensional and naturalistic forms.
One of the first artists to make a clear break from the Renaissance style was Michelangelo Merisi, or better known as Caravaggio (Sullivan). Considered the leading artist of the seventeenth century, he readily rejected the artistic conventions of dignity, beauty, and perfection from the Renaissance era (Fiero 203). Working primarily from Rome, he favored subjects from the New Testament. He would create his narrative by placing religious figures in the local streets of his modern day Italy (Varriano). This can be seen in is painting The Calling of St. Matthew, the second painting from a...
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti was born on March 6, 1475 in Caprese, Tuscany. His dad was Lodovico di Buonarrotto and his mother was Fracessca Neri. Michelangelo was also the second of five brothers. His mother was not capable of raising Michelangelo so his dad let a stonecutter’s wife raise him. Sadly, Michelangelo’s mom died when he was six (Bonner Par. 1-13).
Michelangelo and Caravaggio at some point in history were the most famous artists in Rome, Italy. Michelangelo a prominent architect, poet, sculptor, and painter found his success in Italy during the High Renaissance period (1490-1527). While Caravaggio was the most popular painter in Rome and spearheaded the Baroque period (1650-1750). Artists like Caravaggio in the Baroque period turned to a powerful and dramatic realism, intensified by bold contrasts of light and dark. Michelangelo’s reputation as a painter fluctuated during the High Renaissance, but his devotion to his art and his genius undoubtedly influenced artists such as Caravaggio during the Baroque Period. However, each artist had incredibly different styles, and utilized different mediums in their most popular works of art. Despite that there are also many similarities which indicate Michaelangelo’s heavy influences on Caravaggio and Baroque Period art. The comparison will be between Michelangelo, Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome, Fresco. c. 1508-1512 and Caravaggio, Calling of St. Matthew, Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome, Oil