Renaissance and Mannerism: 3D Gallery

Virgin and Child with Angels Gerard David

Virgin and Child with Four Angels is a small oil-on-panel painting by the Early Netherlandish artist Gerard David. Wikipedia

Artist: Gerard David

Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Created: 1515

Period: Northern Renaissance

Supper at Emmaus

Titian, 1535, Louvre.

Leonardo da Vinci - The Last Supper

The Last Supper is a late 15th-century mural painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci housed by the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. It is one of the Western world's most recognizable paintings. Wikipedia

Artist: Leonardo da Vinci

Dimensions: 15′ 1″ x 29′ 0″

Location: Santa Maria delle Grazie

Medium: tempera, gesso

Created: 1495–1498

The work is assumed to have been started around 1495–96 and was commissioned as part of a plan of renovations to the church and its convent buildings by Leonardo's patron Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan. The painting represents the scene of the Last Supper of Jesus with his apostles, as it is told in the Gospel of John, 13:21.^[2] Leonardo has depicted the consternation that occurred among the Twelve Apostles when Jesus announced that one of them would betray him.

Due to the methods used, a variety of environmental factors, and intentional damage, only little of the original painting remains today despite numerous restoration attempts, the last being completed in 1999.

Rudolf II of Habsburg as Vertumnus by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books. These works form a distinct category from his other productions. Wikipedia

Born: April 5, 1526, Milan, Italy

Died: July 11, 1593, Milan, Italy

The Autumn by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

One in the series of the 4 seasons. Arcimboldo was born in the late Renaissance, and his first works were done in a traditional Renaissance manner. In Hok's opinion, during the Renaissance era the artist had to be first of all the talented handicraftsman who skillfully imitated the nature, as the idea of fine art was based on its studying. Mannerism differed from the Renaissance art in attraction to "not naturalistic abstraction". It was a continuation of artistic innovation in the late Middle Ages—art embodying ideas. According to G. Hok, in consciousness there is concetto—the concept of a picture or a picture of the concept, an intellectual prototype. Arcimboldo, making a start from concetti, painted metaphorical and fantastic pictures, extremely typical for manneristic art.^[17] In On Ugliness, which was published under Umberto Eco's edition, Arcimboldo also admitted belonging to manneristic tradition for which "...the preference for aspiration to strange, extravagant and shapeless over expressional fine" is peculiar.^[

El Greco- Possibly self Portrait

Doménikos Theotokópoulos, most widely known as El Greco, was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. Wikipedia

Born: October 1, 1541, Heraklion, Greece

Died: April 7, 1614, Toledo, Spain

Periods: Mannerism, Spanish Renaissance,

Tintoretto- The Last Supper

The Last Supper is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Jacopo Tintoretto. An oil painting on canvas executed in 1592–1594, it is housed in the Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, northern Italy. Wikipedia

Artist: Tintoretto

Dimensions: 12′ 0″ x 18′ 8″

Location: Church of San Giorgio Maggiore

Period: Italian Renaissance

Created: 1592–1594

Tintoretto painted a Last Supper in Jesus mingles the crows of apostles. The figures appear in a dark interior illuminated by a single light in the upper left of the image. Shimmering halos on the figures clues viewers in about the biblical nature of the scene - this and the winged angles above set this Last Supper as more openly supernatural than Leonardo's rendition.

The entire piece has is incorporated with Mannerist devices.The composition is imbalanced - instead of a horizontal or vertical line by which all objects are judged, the scene is slanted on a diagonal starting from the bottom left and moving to the upper right. Also, the visual complexity of Mannerist works is present as well. Tintoretto painted a lively, chaotic scene in which Jesus is above and beyond the converging perspective lines that race diagonally away from the picture surface. Christ is distinguished by his halo of blinding light that illuminates the darkness.

The Last Judgement - Michelangelo

1535 to 1541,The Last Judgment (Italian: Il Giudizio Universale) is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo covering the whole altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. It is a depiction of the Second Coming of Christ and the final and eternal judgment by God of all humanity.

The gloom and terror of The Last Judgment come as a tremendous shock after the beauty of the Sistine Ceiling. The change is symptomatic of the transformation which had come over Rome itself after the dreadful events of the Sack of Rome in 1527 and its aftermath, from which the center of Christendom did not recover for many years.

The space directly above the altar is reserved for the mouth of Hell, into which the celebrant of the Mass frequently could look as he performed the sacred ritual. To the left of Hell Mouth extends what little of earth has not yet been dissolved, and from its barren ground, reminiscent of the earth on which Adam lies in the Creation of Adam, the dead crawl out of their graves. Some are well preserved, some skeletons, in conformity with a tradition appearing in monumental form in Signorelli's great Last Judgment series in the Cathedral at Orvieto, which Michelangelo must have studied with much interest.

Throughout the Last Judgment, the dominant color is that of human flesh against the slaty blue sky, with only a few touches of brilliant drapery to echo faintly the splendors of the Sistine Ceiling. The dead rising from their graves still preserve the colors of the earth - dun, ocher, drab. A few patches of red appear in the angels' cloaks. The whole section, moreover, has darkened considerably from the smoke of the candles at the altar.

Mannerism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6TvfyL9vHc

The madonna with the long neck- Parmigianino

Madonna With the Long Neck (also referred to as "Madonna and Child with Angels and St. Jerome") is generally regarded as Parmigianino's masterpiece. It was commissioned by Elena Baiardi, as an altarpiece for her private chapel in the church of Santa Maria dei Servi at Parma. It was started in 1534 and completed at Pentecost in 1535, but it reached its intended destination only after the artist's death. Hence it is often referred to as 'unfinished'. Described as lyrical and aloof with a cool but polished colour, it achieved widespread fame during the sixteenth century and in 1698 it was acquired by Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany. It has been in the Uffizi since 1948.

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