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    Fresco

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    Fresco Fresco which means fresh in Italian‚ is a form of painting murals in earth tones are directly applied to wet plaster. The first fresco paintings have been dated as far back as 30‚000 years ago. The earliest discoveries being of paintings done in the Chauvet cave located in France. More than 15‚000 years ago frescoes were created in other caves in Lascaux‚ France and Altamira‚ Spain. These examples of early fresco paintings are brilliant testimony of the long history of this form of art

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    Toreador Fresco

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    discussed amongst others is that of the ancient Mediterranean worlds. The piece is Toreador fresco‚ from the palace of Knossos. The period for toreador is around 1500 B.C.E. The palace at Knossos is of the Minoan culture; therefore‚ the Toreador was created by an artist of this region. Many of the frescos have been found around the Mediterranean basin‚ particularly in Morocco. Some historians believe that the fresco artists were from Crete and were sent to Morocco as part of a trade exchange. The

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    journey and try to figure out what Dali was thinking while painting‚ The Hallucinogenic Toreador. In the painting there is a fairly small color pallet considering all the things painted. Dali used the colors: blue‚ green‚ white‚ red yellow and‚ black. Dali also uses several different shades and highlights of each of the previous colors to add effect and detail to his painting. In the Hallucinogenic Toreador you will find all kinds of eye catching images. One of the first things you notice in

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    Italy and never returning to Dresden again. In Rome and Naples‚ Mengs produced classical and religious scenes. He also wrote some theoretical texts under the influence of Johann Joachim Winckelmann. This painting is a full-size copy of the famous fresco the School of Athens painted by Raphael in 1508 in the Vatican. This copy was commissioned by the Duke of Northumberland in 1749 and represents the ancient knowledge of the most famous philosophers with in the centre Plato and Aristotle whose doctrines

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    art; the Toreador Fresco and the Egyptian Fowling Scene. The Toreador Fresco is a fresco depicting a bull-leaping ceremony. It is from the palace at Knossos(Crete)‚ Greece and from around 1450-1400 BCE. The Egyptian Fowling Scene is a mural painting from the tomb of Nebamun. It is from Thebes‚ Egypt and from the 18th Dynasty‚ ca. 1400-1350 BCE. The styles between these two periods are very different‚ but there are still a few similarities found between the two pieces of art. The Toreador Fresco

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    Ambroggio Lorenzetti

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    Siena. I argue that Lorenzetti’s Allegory of Good Government was a profound‚ and perhaps even revolutionary‚ piece considering the time and the subject matter of his fresco. I will begin by providing a detailed description and analysis of the fresco in its entirety and an examination of Ambrogio’s artistic style used in the fresco. The Allegory of Good Government is located in Palazzo Pubblica in Siena and is one piece of a series frescoes depicting the good and bad government in the city and

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    that they do not visually conflict and blend into one of the most often visited pieces of artwork in the world. This work of art can tell us a lot about the values of society at that time and our progression through that period. Michelangelo’s fresco ceiling has since inspired many artists and elements in the ceiling have been imitated often in the years since then. Michelangelo de Buonarotti‚ a painter‚ sculptor‚ architect and poet was born in 1475 in Tuscany‚ Italy. At the age of twelve

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    Palazzo Art History

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    Name palazzo del Te Date 1524-1534 Period‚style renaissance Artist Giulio Romano‚ Commisioner Federico II Gonzaga‚ Marquess of Mantua Location Mantua‚ Italy Material cut stone Context Few windows overlook the inner courtyard ("cortile"); the colonnaded walls are decorated on all sides by deep niches and blind windows‚ and the intervening surfaces are spattered by ’spezzato’ (broken and blemished plaster) giving life and depth to the surfaces. Function pleasure palace‚ or Villa Suburbana

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    concept of objectivity?(1 pt linear perspective) In renaissance perspective when painting‚ the artist makes a subjective choice(POV) and applies the objective principles of one point linear perspective to their chosen subject. *In ancient Egyptian frescos and bas-reliefs‚ what accounts for human figures rendered in different scales? Why? AN:Larger the figure‚ higher the status(hierarchy of scale) *Why is learning the formal properties so important? AN:-learning the language of art –improve powers

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    atmosphere and how this in turn would change how a something would appear - unlike the Florentine artists who preferred to paint figures “more as they knew them to be.”(ibid) Another reason which might have had an effect on why Venetians avoided fresco painting is because of the

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