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Thứ Tư, 2 tháng 4, 2014

A Set Of Popular Italian Painters

By Darren Hartley


The earliest of Caravaggio paintings was the Boy Peeling a Fruit. The early Caravaggio paintings were paintings of flowers and fruits including Boy with a Basket of Fruit and Young Sick Bacchus. Physical Particularity is an aspect of Caravaggio realism for which he became famous for. This aspect was demonstrated in these paintings.

Michelangelo Merisi o Amerighi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist who was active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily. The first of Caravaggio paintings with more than one figure was The Fortune Teller. It carried the theme that was quite new for Rome, that of Mario Minniti, a 16 year old Sicilian artist, being cheated by a Gypsy girl. The theme proved to be immensely influential over the next century and beyond.

Considered to be the first true Caravaggio masterpiece, The Cardsharps was among the more psychologically complex Caravaggio paintings. It featured a boy falling victim to card cheats. The following Caravaggio paintings, i.e., The Musicians, The Lute Player, a tipsy Bacchus and Boy Bitten by a Lizard, became the center of dispute among scholars and biographers mainly because of their homoerotic ambiance.

Returning to realism, Caravaggio paintings centered on religious themes that showed an emergence of remarkable spirituality. Penitent Magdalene, Saint Catherine, Martha and Mary Magdalene, Judith Beheading Holofernes, Sacrifice of Isaac, Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy and Rest on the Flight into Egypt are among these religious paintings.

A celebration of perfection and grace is what Raphael paintings is all about. They carried with them serene and harmonious qualities. An Italian High Renaissance painter and architect was how Raphael Sanzio was known. He formed the traditional trinity of great masters of the period, together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci.

Raphael paintings naturally fall into 3 phases and 3 styles, that is, Raphael's early years in Umbria, a 4 year period absorbing Florence's artistic traditions and his last hectic and triumphant 12 years in Rome.

A brilliant self portrait drawing showing Raphael's precocious talent was one of the early Raphael paintings. With the use of an oil varnish medium, thick paint was applied in shadows and darker garments while thin paint was applied on the flesh areas. This was the underlying technique used in this self-portrait drawing.

The Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino was the first documented work among Raphael paintings. In the following years, Raphael paintings consisted of painted works for other churches. Among these large works, some done in fresco, are the Mond Crucifixion, the Brera Wedding of the Virgin and Oddi Altarpiece.

The Three Graces and St. Michael are examples of small and exquisite cabinet Raphael paintings during the period. In the same period are Raphael paintings showcasing the beginning of his Madonna and portrait paintings.




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