Inside The Secrets of the Renaissance NEED MICHELANGELO An Artistic Prodigy
ISABELLA D’ESTE Who is she?
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Isa bell a D’ est e
Do you know who Isabella d’este really is? Do you know how she got to where she is today? Are You curious to dig up information about her? Well, Isabella d’este is a glorious women, who is a patron, leader and foreign policy overlord. She has created vast artistic works because of the patronage she has provided to countless artists like Da vinci. She has created an empire of culture like florence. Isabella d’este is one of the most influential women of the renaissance times. One of the many great achievements of her is that she became a patron of the arts. This is an important achievement because she helped fund some of the greatest artists of the time like da vinci and leonardo. Her patronage to many helps artists create their masterpieces! Isabella d'este's philosophy was not on humanism but individualism. She wanted the individual to succeed and create their mastery piece than create one masterpiece as a group. Isabella d’este is not like the other patrons or wealthy individuals of the time.
Isabella D’este
For one thing, she is one of few female patrons of the time and she is able to fund these immense projects like the other rich males, like the medici families. The biggest competitor of not only wealth or patrons was the medici family. They too wanted to fund many patron projects, sometimes taking patrons away from Isabella. She has many strengths to help prevent the stealing of patrons, one of her strengths are that she is very accepting of all concepts and artists alike because she wants new, innovative idea’s at her patronage living quarters, so that may inspire new art to others or the patron who designed it. Because of all the patronage she gives to many, many artists, she sometimes becomes one herself, showing off what some of the new ideas have shown by using it in setting the table and adding different centerpieces and small art for a conversation piece or something nice to look at. Also, another thing that you may find as a discovery to you is that Isabella is very strict on who she selects to become one of her patrons, even though she accepts many talented artists, they had to pass a viewing by her to see if she was interested in their works and styles. Isabella D’este would be known as “the first lady of the Renaissance, for her progressive patronage to the arts. She encouraged women to break the barriers of the time and become indapendent, and she will forever be
Oil Painting
Oil Painting represents the Renaissance because many famous Renaissance Artists used oil painting methods for their artwork. An artist named Jan van Eyck is known for reinventing oil painting during Renaissance in 1410. At first many artists used the form tempera for painting but didn't like that their colors didn't cover and pop out. They learned to use oil paint because the versatility of oil paint is a reason the style became so popular. The admixtures in the oils made most of the pigments in the colors translucent letting the artist paint in thin layers or glazes giving their artwork bold colors. Artists such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael all used oil painting techniques in their paintings.
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Painting with Pigments Paint blends well Oil paints pop out Oil paint is versatile
Michelangelo An Artistic Prodigy
Have you ever heard of a man named Michelangelo? Michelangelo is a famous artist well known for his work with sculpting and painting in the Renaissance. With the many talents he beholds, one of his biggest accomplishments was painting the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling at the Vatican. The beautiful artwork shows the creation cycles of Genesis. This complex masterpiece had taken Michelangelo four years to accomplish. Michelangelo also has a philosophy of Humanism. Michelangelo shows his thoughts on humanism through his artwork. He shows his humanist beliefs through his artworks on the Sistine Chapel ceilings. The artwork on the ceilings represent forms of humanism because humanism is “emphasizing human dignity and the love of nature.” One of the creations he painted that is very important is, The Creation of Adam. This shows humanism because Adam is portrayed as this perfectly looking man whom God has just created. Much of Michelangelo’s work has been influenced by Roman and Greek culture but especially greek culture, many of the greek artists wanted their statutes of people to be extremely beautiful. They wanted everything to be proportionate from head to toe. They sculpt these beautiful pieces of perfection in materials of bronze or stone. Michelangelo used the greek influence in many of his statues. It’s evident he used greek influence on his statue of “David”. David has a perfect body, with chiseled facial features and a proportionate perfect body. The greek arts idolized the perfect looking humans and Michelangelo was influenced to do that to some of his art. Michelangelo is so good at what he does he stands out from many artists from his time. His pieces of work were very much inspired by mythological and classical sources.
He combined his high level techniques and his rich imagination to produce aesthetic harmony and anatomical accuracy. What makes him even more unique than most artists is that he was very interested in art at the young age of six and then eventually at age 13 was sent to be trained as an apprentice with artist Ghirlandaio. Many people know of the famous Michelangelo but what many people don’t know is that he learned to do the impossible. His famous David statue was carved from a discarded slab of marble. The marble was deemed unworkable because the slab was to old and abandoned for too long. But Michelangelo made use of what he had and created a masterpiece. Michelangelo’s biggest competition would be Leonardo Da Vinci. Although the two are a little far apart in age, the two both carried techniques that many didn’t have. Because of their amazing talents the two were very competitive with one another because they both had amazing pieces of artwork. If Michelangelo could change one thing about himself it would be starting his career off as an art forger. I believe this because when he was named an art forger many people turned against Michelangelo because they disliked him for copying other people’s work. Michelangelo is known for his “weakness becoming his biggest strength”. He was asked by Pope Julius ll to create the paintings on the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo believed people persuaded the Pope to ask him due to the fact he hasn’t painted since he was a 13 year old apprentice. He says it’s his weakness becoming his big strength because this piece of art is raved as one of the best artworks in history.
Invasion of Naples! In our day and age, we see war all the time, for us it is a common thing to hear and see. It is in our backyards and towns. It seems unavoidable. We all have something in common, that is the wearing of the naples italy. This event is affecting us all with many of our european neighbors invading and being defeated over and over again. Also this is important because it is in close proximity to Florence, Italy where the renaissance was create and home to a cultural explosion of art. If this fighting continued to expand, Florence may be in danger. The main contributors to this war are the French, Neapolitan King Ferrando, Monarchs of Spain, but some of the rulers of Genoa and Milan aided in the people care of the city.
There are large consequences to this event, some impacting people for the rest of their lives. Those consequences are that people are becoming frightened by the constant wearing of countries over the same area, and some may leave or never leave their home until everything has begun to calm down. Everyday people can and will be callosities of this war and families may lose loved ones over countries who only want land, not respecting and loving patrons of the leader. This just doesn't affect the people inside the state being constantly attacked but also the people around and away from the state because the leaders who are conducting this battle, may run into bankruptcy because of how costly wars are, other states may become afraid of this happening, closing borders on trade and foreign policy and people may feel helpless because if they intervene, they too may be attacked. People will react in every way thinkable, some turning to religion or family others become saddened and returning to the solemn safety of their homes. People are fearing of attack in the naples because they don’t want to get caught in the crossfire of the war of other countries.
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