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ALLEGORY OF SPRING – BOTTICELLI – Start Art!
Sandro Botticelli's Allegory of Spring (the Italian original "Primavera") is different than most of the other Christianity themed Renaissance paintings due to the mythological figures it includes. Despite the figures are all taken from classical mythology, there is no specific mythological story that brings these figures together. The figures, standing in a spring garden covered
THE ANNUNCIATION – LEONARDO DA VINCI – Start Art!
As indicated by its name, Leonardo da Vinci's painting has the theme of an announcement. One of the major topics in Christian belief and a prominent theme in art history, the Annunciation, depicts the scene where Virgin Mary receives the news from archangel Gabriel that she is pregnant. The Annunciation paintings focus on the moment
THE SCREAM – MUNCH – Start Art!
"I was walking along the road with two friends The sun was setting Suddenly the sky turned blood red I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence There was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city My friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety And I sensed an infinite scream passing
OLYMPIA – MANET – Start Art!
Manet's Olympia caused a great shock, stirred the art community and received a great deal of negative reaction upon its first public display in Paris, 1865. The conservative academic critics of the period considered it vulgar, degenerate and even immoral. Nevertheless, the source of inspiration of Manet was a classic Renaissance piece of Titian:
THE CREATION OF ADAM – MICHELANGELO – Start Art!
The fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel of Vatican contains 9 scenes from the Old Testament depicted with the enchanting design of Michelangelo. "The Creation of Adam" is located in the middle of the ceiling, at the focal point of the viewer. Despite this subject having been produced with so many different
THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY – DALÍ – Start Art!
A universal symbol of modern art and surrealism, The Persistence of Memory has become one of the biggest visual icons of our time with the melting clocks created by Dalí's extraordinary imagination. What attracts the viewer's attention first in the painting are the melting clocks and the weirdly shaped form resembling a human face. These objects
JUDITH BEHEADING HOLOFERNES – CARAVAGGIO – Start Art!
This brutal looking work of Caravaggio, which evokes feeling of terror and fear at first glance, can be discovered to include much more upon a deeper analysis. Indeed the painting is not only a display of a decapitation scene but a conscientiously designed masterpiece which enables the viewer to unfold the psychological states of the
THE KISS – KLIMT – Start Art!
One of the biggest modern icons of our time, the Kiss, belongs to Gustav Klimt's Golden Period during which he used gold leaves in his paintings. Based on a simple composition, the painting is largely covered by a couple in embrace. The man and the woman in golden-yellow coloured long clothes become one in this embrace.
SAMSON AND DELILAH – RUBENS – Start Art!
The painting depicts the episode on Samson and Delilah from the Old Testament. According to the story, Samson is a Hebrew hero from the Israelites and has great strength which enables him to slay a lion with bare hands or massacring an entire army with a jawbone of an ass. Samson has been named
OATH OF THE HORATII – DAVID – Start Art!
The subject of Oath of the Horatii is taken from the Roman history. The cities of Rome and Alba Longa were under a never-ending dispute. In order to end this dispute, three brothers from the Horatius of Rome and three brothers from the Curatius family of Alba Longa were chosen to fight against each