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Bernini was an Italian sculptor and architect in the seventeen century. In the mature period of his career, he was also keen on city designing and theater directing, designing all their technical and visual installations by himself. He was famous for…

Titian’s Sacred and Profane Love made circa 1515 is an oil painting that was commissioned by Niccolò Aurelio, who was a secretary to the Venetian Council of Trent. It was made to commemorate his marriage with a young widow named Laura Bagarotto…

This huge painting was commissioned from Gentile Bellini in 1504 as a decoration for the Scuola Grande di San Marco's reception room, one of the city’s most prestigious and powerful confraternities [1]. However, this painting was left incomplete upon…

     Depicted here is the story of Apollo and Daphne. In the foreground is Apollo, half-naked and only covered by a shimmering green fabric--a feature Dossi incorporated from Titian’s work at the Ferrara court.¹ Following Apollo’s muscular body, the…

The first thing that viewer's eyes are drawn to is the larger than life man on the left hand side of the painting.  He is clothed in blue and light red cloth, with one arm on his hip and one outstretched towards the center of the painting.  The cloth…

In this painting, we see Saint Mark preaching in Alexandria. Giovanni and Gentile Bellini pull the focus onto the details of the landscape in multiple ways. First, with regards to the composition of the image, Bellini scattered objects of Venetian…

There have been several different interpretations of who the three female figures in this work are, and what they mean. At one point, it was identified as the Three Graces, but later the main figure was identified as Venus, blindfolding her son Cupid…

Upon the death of Gentile Bellini in 1507, it was prescribed in his will that his younger brother, Giovanni Bellini, would complete the work St. Mark Preaching in Alexandria commissioned by the Scuola Grande di San Marco [1]. Giovanni’s continuation…

Created by Michelangelo Caravaggio c. 1606-1610, David with the Head of Goliath was created as a gift for the papal court of Rome, specifically for Scipione Borgehese. Caravaggio was accused of murdering Tomassoni in May 1606, and fled from Rome, but…

Titian painted Sacred and Profane Love in circa 1515. It was commissioned by Niccoló Aurelio in 1514, a superb chancellor in Venice's city government, on behalf of his matrimony to Laura Bagarotto of Padua [1]. In 1613, this composition was described…