HarmonIntroRenaissanceBaroque; Museum visit

 April 6^th, 2015

HUA101

                                               Online Assignment #3

                The Renaissance, or Rebirth, is a period in Europe from the late fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries, which was characterized by a renewed interest in human centered classical art, literature, and learning. This was connected with humanism. Humanism was a cultural and intellectual movement during the renaissance, following the rediscovery of the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome etc. The philosophy of humanism, presented in the lecture while talking about the art Masaccio, was a legacy of the Greeks and Romans. It was a code of civil conduct and a theory of education. Renaissance art consisted of styles such as frontal poses with prominence, halos and uses of gold leaf which emphasizes flatness. It also highlights the prominent role of religious orders.

   This portrait is The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist by Perino del Vaga. He was an Italian painter of the late renaissance. Vaga was born in Florence, Italy in 1501 and died in Rome, Italy in 1547. This rare work dates from the mid- 1520’s. Young Christ holds traditional symbols of a goldfinch which is symbolic of the resurrection and a cherry, signifying the “delights of the bless”. Young Saint John the Baptist who is the cousin of Christ, wore leopard skin was usually associated with the ancient god Bacchus. The pagan and Christian mirrors ideas prevalent

             The Baroque period was the seventeenth-century period in Europe characterized in the visual arts by dramatic light and shade, turbulent composition, and pronounced emotional expression. Some of the arts were of religious experience. The Greek mythology was that being nude was the highest form of beauty. The dramatic shade created an illusion of volume.

  This is Venus and Adonis by Peter Paul Rubens. Rubens was a Flemish Baroque painter who was born in Siegen Germany in 1577 and died in Antwerp, Belgium in 1640. This painting was dated back to about the mid 1630’s. Mistakenly hit by one of cupid’s arrows, Venus, the Goddess of love, fell in love with the handsome and strong hunter Adonis. With manly indifference to the goddesses’ charm and her warning of danger, Adonis hunted a wild bear and was gored to death. The story was well suited to decorate grand country houses, where the chase occupied noblemen indoors and out.