Standing tall and regal in a three-quarter pose, Caterina gazes sideways at the viewer with composure, her lips pursed and hands clasped together in front of her. Her lavishly-robed figure fills the frame, positioned against a sober black background…
Paolo Veronese was a renaissance painter known primarily for his paintings relating to religion and mythology. His personality itself was very mysterious and little was known about him, due to few documentations of letters and personal life. [1]…
Feast in the House of Levi was a replacement for the painting of an earlier work by Titian destroyed by the fire in 1571. [1] Originally Caliari had this painting name Lord's Last Supper and intended to be a monumental artwork for a religious…
The Tempest was an important work in Renaissance landscape painting, and one of the 5 surviving works by Giorgione. The painting depicts a storm moving towards two main figures, with a child in the arms of the woman. The male figure looks at the…
The Tempest was an important work in Renaissance landscape painting, and one of the 5 surviving works by Giorgione. The painting depicts a storm moving towards two main figures, with a child in the arms of the woman. The male figure looks at the…
In this painting, we see a multitude of figures, some of which are in the nude whereas others are defined by idealized drapery. Immediately, the first aspect noticed is the shape of the canvas: a rectangular center with 4 semicircular lobes…
The Last Supper is an oil on canvas painting Jacopo Tintoretto painted. This Italian Renaissance artist painted this between the years 1592-1594. The scene portrays a frontal view with multiple people sitting parallel from each other. The painting…
“I await fame and glory in life, and then in death” [1].
Like Tullia d’Aragona’s dialogue, Moderata Fonte’s Il merito delle donne (1600) is a commentary on the dialogues of philosophers and humanists, which were almost exclusively composed of male…
Giorgione was and Italian painter during the High Renaissance and achieved effect and distinctiveness in his paintings through color and mood. He was known as one of the most mysterious artists for always creating uncertainty in the meaning of his…
The Martyrdom of the Pilgrims and the Funeral of Saint Ursula was a single painting in a cycle created by the Vittore Carpaccio for the Scuole Piccola [1] and commissioned by the Loredan family [2]. The cycle narrates the life, marriage, and…