...executed for the Medici Chapel in the area of the
tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence, Italy. It is
part of a second pair (the second being Dusk),...
"...Michelangelo di Lodovic [early 1500's] ... was an
Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer
of the High Renaissance who exerted an /?
'unparalleled'/ influence on the development of Western
art ..." (shouldn't forget Leonardo,...)
The
Creation of Adam (Wikipedia) "...a fresco painting
by Michelangelo, which forms part of the Sistine
Chapel's ceiling, painted c. 1508–1512. It illustrates
the Biblical creation narrative from the Book of Genesis
in which God breathes life into Adam, the first man."
" On
the ceiling, Adam is placed to the left, reclining
on his right arm with his left arm outstretched reaching
to the heavens. He is naked and muscular, lying
on the ground..." (I don't personally care for
Michelangelo as a painter; his figures are often too much
like "superman"; and Adam here looks dorky.)
"One
of the most important Renaissance painters that
came about under Lorenzo deMedici was Sandro Botticelli.
It was Botticelli who created the first overtly pagan
images at a time when the church of the middle ages was
still large and in charge, an act that would never have
happened had Lorenzo not relaxed the attitude of the
city toward ancient “non-church” ideas. This sort of
attitude resulted in enormously free creativity in art,
as well as in writing and in the sciences. All of it was
happening in Florence. ...
The greatest painting in Florence today is in the
Uffizi gallery, once the offices of the Medici palace
(the word uffizi means Offices). It’s this painting here
by Botticelli from 1486, called 'The Birth of Venus'.
The painting is a true masterpiece of Renaissance art. In
it, the mythical goddess Venus
is blown into the shore on a shell and received into the
world on land. The story from mythology is far more
detailed (and downright gross ... "
Fine art
paintings, original and classical fine styled
fine art paintings, GrlFineArt by G.
Linsenmayer.
Examples of classical fine art nude paintings,
goddess, nudes, and examples of my own
original fine art paintings.
G. Linsenmayer paintings are for sale,
originals and print-on-demand; look here for
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Fine Art Female Nude Tasha As
Goddess Aphrodite
Painting - Multimedia Acrylic / Oil On Paper
This picture is an original
multimedia oil / acrylic painting of Tasha as
Aphrodite rising from the sea, accomplished in a
traditional / contemporary style. According to
Homer's Iliad, she is the daughter of Zeus and
Dione. The painting is a new original painting
based on my own prior sketches and digital prints.
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"... Rembrandt’s Night Watch is an example of
a very specific type of painting that was exclusive to the
Northern Netherlands, with the majority being commissioned
in the city of Amsterdam. It is a group portrait of a
company of civic guardsmen. The primary purpose of these
guardsmen was to serve as defenders of their cities"
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FineArtAmerica ,
ARTFLAKES , and Imagekind .
CURRENT UPLOAD / FAVORITES...
Leonardo da Vinci was the "absolute master"
of the real figure; by comparison, much of Michelangelo's
paintings seem to me to be sort of "Superman" style...
Bacchus here, and Christ, below, look more real.
"Jacob spent the night alone in communion with God on a
riverside. There, a mysterious being—usually considered to
be an angel—wrestled with Jacob... " (This looks a bit
contrived... the angle looks like "its all in a days
job...", and Jacob doesn.t look like a serious
wrestler...)
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