Painting in the Renaissance by Una D'Elia

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Flew too close to the Sun with wings made When painting Christian stories and of wax, despite his father’s warning not to do ancient myths, artists had to find ways to so. The Sun melted his wings and so Icarus show the supernatural, including angels, fell to his death. In Bruegel’s scene, all we demons, and gods. can see are Icarus’s little legs poking out of the water. The setting is the decidedly real Angels and Demons Flemish coast. Nearby, a ship sails and a Christians believe in angels, good spirits peasant plows his field.

To make the painting even Birth of Venus shows Venus, the goddess of more dreamlike, Botticelli made all the love, being born out of the sea on a large figures float in the air or stand on tiptoe, scallop shell. Wind gods blow her to shore, in beautiful poses like dancers. 29 The Rise of Art By the end of the Renaissance, patrons began studying in academies and were buying art not just to teach religious writing theories about their art. They were messages or to show their wealth or considered educated people, and their social power, but because it was beautiful.

Descending to Hell, which is populated by Figures were twisted to create more creatures from Greek mythology and from emotion or tension or to create an the poem Inferno, written by Dante Alighieri exaggerated look of elegance. People might in the 1310s. The painting’s unusual have torsos or necks or other features that depiction of Hell, and the numerous nudes, look too long. caused controversy when it was revealed. Birth of Venus Sandro Botticelli was famous for his where an attendant waits to wrap her in mythological paintings of the late 1400s.

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