Ultramarine

present a sort of timeline of differences between what people wanted in works of art during the fifteenth century. At the beginning of the fifteenth century commissioners had focused contracts on physical materials being used such as gold and ultramarine, and the type of medium and framing being used. Towards the middle and end of the fifteenth century, while material was still of importance, commissioners focused the detail of their contracts on the skill of the artist painting it. For example

F. Scott Fitzgerald uses imagery and symbolism to represent bigger ideas in his stories. For his novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald was able to do something most authors aren’t. He was able to approve of the cover of his book. The cover selected was a painting of a nightly city, being watched over by celestial eyes. The eyes stand out in juxtaposition of the rest of the dark blue sky due to their sickly yellow color as a teal tear travels down from the left. However, a closer look at the eyes in

The mirror-like reflection Art can tell stories of the past events, which were significant to that culture or a person. Female images take a special place in the representation of the art. Women have always been used as a subject of art and displayed as ideal feminine figures and sexualized objects of desire. The notion of femininity, along with the idea of the female gender role, has substantially changed throughout the centuries. Through the several art pieces authors show how the social, political

“The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.” - Walter Pater. Benozzo Gozzoli was an early Italian painter during the Renaissance. He designed and painted many of the Renaissance’s greatest masterpieces, such as the Procession of the Magi, The Conversion of Saint Paul, and Virgin and Child with Angels. Gozzoli’s artwork was influenced by many things and people around him, that helped shape him to be one of the greatest painters

The most interesting thing I learned from it was how they made paint back in 1600s. They grinded up different substances into a paste and made paint out of those. Ultramarine was one of the most difficult shades of paint to make “the process of extracting a pure blue from the stone so difficult, that he worked with it himself”(180). This shows how important the painting of the girl with a pearl earing is, because a good

Agriculture Originally, most French Polynesians relied on agriculture as a mean to survive but when the French nuclear testing began in the 1960s, many abandoned farming. The whole farming industry almost collapsed for French Polynesia. Exports of vanilla and coffee had ended by 1965 while coconut production has dropped by a whooping 40 percent. French Polynesians grow coconut trees, vanilla orchids for vanilla extracts, vegetables, fruits and Theobroma cacao trees for coffee. Aquaculture included

Featured in this gallery are the two versions of The Virgin of the Rocks (also known as The Madonna of the Rocks). These two altarpieces are being showcased in particular in this exhibition because they share a location in the same Milanese church, the San Francesco Grande, and most importantly the same artist (although this has been debated), Leonardo Da Vinci, painted both versions of the altarpiece. Further, another reason why they are being portrayed in this exhibition is due to the debates over

The Starry Night portrait was created by the Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh during the period of the 20th-century renaissance. This masterpiece was one of Vincent van Gogh well-known painting in the history of art which brought him fame. The Starry Night was so popular because of this painting represents star that makes you dream. This masterpiece was painted on June 1889 during his stay at the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. During the time he created

The Interrelation between the camera, the development of realism and pigment production in Europe during the industrial revolution. Pigment production directly caused by the industrial revolution effected arts in numerous long-lasting ways, afterwards the camera would have another distinct effect on the arts forever. For the first time the average citizen would have access to high quality and numerous art materials, this bringing of material to the average person would have a dramatic effect on how

After thoroughly reading Chapters one and two, it became transparent that both Enthroned Madonna and Child and Ognissanti Madonna are nonetheless similar in size, structure and style. Beginning with his work, the painting is roughly twelve feet tall. Cimabue used various leveled scale with the indivduals in this piece (the idea that greater is better and generally critical). Various leveled scale implies placing things all together of significance in respect to estimate. In this piece the blessed