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The Triumph of Silenus by Wenceslau Cifka
#wenceslaucifka
#thetriumphofsilenus #italianrenaissance
#maiolicaceramics

#NationalBadgerDay pet portrait:
#ItalianRenaissance artist Sodoma (b. Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, 1477 – 1549) inserted a self portrait with his pet #badgers into his Stories of St. Benedict fresco cycle LOL!

Life of St Benedict, Scene 3: Benedict Repairs a Broken Colander Through Prayer (fresco in Abbazia territoriale di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Tuscany, 1505-08)
#RenaissanceArt

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Stories_of_Saint_Benedict_in_Monte_Oliveto_Maggiore_by_Sodoma

full view of the fresco panel with the artist’s self-portrait inserted into scene

Detail of the artist’s self portrait with his two pet badgers at his feet (one in front wearing a red collar)

3,000 years of #women’s #BeautyStandards compressed in 3-minute video https://zorz.it/zHDnj | #Audra #AncientEgypt #AncientGreece #BodyType #ConceptOfBeauty #ItalianRenaissance #VictorianEngland #history

The week in #art: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael. #Drawing the #ItalianRenaissance https://zorz.it/HiElC | #LauraCumming #Michelangelo #LeonardoDaVinci #Raphael #TheObserver #RoyalAcademyOfArts #KingsGallery #reviews

#Hieroglyphics: a collection of #CompositePortraitures by Fores
https://zorz.it/Mfwdg | #ShanilouPerera #aquatints #art #GiuseppeArcimboldo #painter #ItalianRenaissance #portraits #SamuelWilliamFores #collection #EuropeanArtists

What did people in the Italian Renaissance era think about nudity, modesty and shame? Art — or the lack of it — can reveal a lot. There are far more naked men than women, for starters. "The male body is this absolute focus of creativity," historian Maya Corry told @BBCNews. "This is a Christian society and it's the male body, not the female body, that's made in God's image." Ahead of a new exhibition at Buckingham Palace, Deborah Nicholls writes about the hidden meanings in a 16th-century female nude.

https://flip.it/9oORmV

#Art #Culture #ItalianRenaissance #RenaissanceArt #Raphael

ESSAY: Artemisia Gentileschi on How to Properly Decapitate a Man

Let's break down the Italian Renaissance master's JUDITH AND HER MAIDSERVANT WITH THE HEAD OF HOLOFERNES, which was a seminal piece of fine art in my life

Read: https://open.substack.com/pub/colehaddon/p/artemisia-gentileschi-on-how-to-properly?r=1mimd1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#art #fineart #renaissanceart #italianrenaissance #Artemisia #artemisiagentileschi #womeninart #creativity

One of the art history facts that surprised my students this week is that the "Mona Lisa" is famous because she was stolen in 1911 from the Louvre by Vincenzo Peruggia so he could return her to Italy. The search for the "Mona Lisa," lasting until she was recovered in 1913, made her an internationally recognized painting that everyone had to see. There were genuinely shocked faces around the classroom - I think everyone was expecting me to explain something like why she's the greatest painting ever - so it was a really fun class!

And sure, before the theft art historians knew she was significant because she was a da Vinci, but she didn't have wider popular fame like she does today.

#Art #ArtHistory #DaVinci #MonaLisa #ItalianRenaissance #Renaissance

Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa," a painted portrait from the High Italian Renaissance of a woman sitting on a chair, which we only see from the waist up, with a landscape in the background. She has long brown hair and is wearing a brown dress with long sleeves.

The Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child by Sandro Botticelli, 1485.

#ClassicArt #Art #Painting #PublicDomain #ItalianArtist #15thCenturyArt #Renaissance #RenaissanceArt #ItalianRenaissance #ReligiousArt #ChristianArt

"Given the familiarity of the David, it is difficult for us to appreciate just how novel it is. I believe David looks as it does because Michelangelo... was free to carve a completely original work. And that is precisely what he did." https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/how-michelangelo-made-david-into-a-giant-2412/?fbclid=IwAR2buw03QR0pKVDQgVTpaY_lC3D_I96FC-N-Y7DbT9WCSHRPROVVeM3tbAg
#sculpture #Renaissanceart #florentineart #potterdayart #italianrenaissance #arthistory #artmuseum

Head and toros of the giant marble statue Michelangelo created of David. MARCUS OBAL/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/GNUFDL

Saint Augustine in His Cell by Sandro Botticelli, 1490-1494.

#ClassicArt #Art #Painting #PublicDomain #ItalianArtist #15thCenturyArt #Renaissance #RenaissanceArt #ItalianRenaissance #ReligiousArt #ChristianArt

The Virgin and Child Enthroned (Bardi Altarpiece) by Sandro Botticelli, 1484-1485.

#ClassicArt #Art #Painting #PublicDomain #ItalianArtist #15thCenturyArt #Renaissance #RenaissanceArt #ItalianRenaissance #ReligiousArt #ChristianArt

Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci by Sandro Botticelli, 1475-1480.

#ClassicArt #Art #Painting #PublicDomain #ItalianArtist #15thCenturyArt #Renaissance #RenaissanceArt #ItalianRenaissance #Portrait #FemalePortrait

The Spring by Sandro Botticelli, late 1470s or early 1480s.

#ClassicArt #Art #Painting #PublicDomain #ItalianArtist #15thCenturyArt #Renaissance #RenaissanceArt #ItalianRenaissance #AllegoricalArt #MythologyArt

Libraries, both public and private, are essential components of human culture & creativity. Today I’m pulling some books off the St Brigid Press shelf to brush back up on the histories of type design & printing in the Italian Renaissance, as background for a new little printing project. It’s good to sit down with a cup of tea & these learned, inspiring friends again. (Shop Dog considers all this very boring.)

#Library #Libraries #TypeDesign #PrintingHistory #ItalianRenaissance #Letterpress

#italianrenaissance

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