Gothic art

particular paintings currently on display at The Museum of the Fine Arts, Houston that are so similar in appearance and content, but their intentions and purposes differ dramatically. These two paintings, both relating to the virgin and the child, are the Master of the Straus Madonna’s Virgin and Child (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), dated c. 1395-1400, and created much later, Antoniazzo Romano’s Virgin and Child with Donor (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), dated c. 1430-1512. Within a hundred years, these

Grant Wood’s American Gothic is one of the most famous paintings in the history of American art. The painting brought Wood almost instant fame after being exhibited for the first time at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930. It is probably the most reproduced and parodied works of art, and has become a staple within American pop-culture. The portrait of what appears to be a couple, standing solemnly in front of their mid-western home seems to be a simplistic representation of rural America. As simple

Portraits of the Madonna and Child depicting Mary holding the infant Christ provide a recurrent image in art throughout the ages. In prevalent portrayals over the span of centuries, artists reflect a wide diversity in their representations of the iconic duo. In particular, two works found in the National Gallery of Ireland in the early Italian Renaissance gallery, The Virgin and Child, Saint John the Baptist and Prophets by an unknown artist (1325-1450) and The Virgin and Child by Paolo Uccello (1435-1440)

a gallery built in the imitation of a chapel, and subsequently the Gothic room. In this paper, I will examine the Gothic room's theme in relation to the placement of its objects. I will also evaluate the room's strengths and challenges in serving the public, and how the conventions employed in this room contribute to the general accessibility of the museum. The room I chose at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum follows a Gothic theme. It contains objects, such as paintings, tapestries, altarpieces

located in the apse of the Church of Santa Maria de Mur in Catalonia, Spain but now is located in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston as a gift from the Maria Antoinette Evans Fund. The fresco is a transition from Roman and Byzantine Art to Gothic Art. The artist of Christ in Majesty utilizes his art to educate people in the doctrines of the Christian faith. Christ in Majesty is a work of art made to emphasize religion and to teach illiterate people the principles of Christianity. On the upper register

Alex Genatt ARH132: Visual Art Analysis Lippo Vanni’s “Madonna and child Enthroned” (1343) When the Roman Empire collapsed, Gothicism was born. While Gothic art was first characterized as Romanesque art, Gothic art soon came to be its own form of art and era during the Middle Ages. Gothic art was a new combination of sculpture, painting, architecture and art. In its truest form, Gothicism is illustrated in Lippo Vanni’s 1343 painting “Madonna and Child Enthroned.” Vanni’s work is a symbol of

American Art before and after World War II Marty Rieth ARTS/125 June 27, 2016 Sarah Baer American Art before and after World War II The objective for the following paper is to discuss issues concerning American art before and after World War II. The discussion will include an examination of the artwork of three artists. Two artists will have worked during the Great Depression and one artist will have been an Abstract Expressionist. In discussing the artists’ work, a description of

meanings which I attempted to interpret by examining the artistic cross cultural influences in Florence in the late nineteenth century. And to address the question of why the Mediaeval Hispano-Moresque gold lustreware and the design motifs of the Gothic Revivalist repertoires were found on this bowl. I examine why Chini became inspired to use these designs and what they may have meant to him. In this essay I will examine why there was a taste for lustreware in the Florentine workshops and how their

the individual, therefore, at the center of art, making literature valuable as an expression of unique feelings and particular attitudes and valuing its fidelity in portraying experiences, however fragmentary and incomplete, more than its adherence to completeness, unity, or the demands of the genre. Although romanticism tends at times to regard nature as alien, it more often sees in nature a revelation of Truth . . . and a more suitable subject for art than those aspects of the world sullied by

the subjects for many of Bruegel’s paintings, including The Peasant Dance in 1567. Lower class people have been the subject of paintings many times since Bruegel, however one painting that shares its ambiguity is Grant Wood’s 1930 painting American Gothic. The ambiguity stems from the uncertainty of whether these paintings are critiquing or celebrating their subjects. Bruegel was so well known for painting the lower class; it was often believed that he was a member himself. He, however, was merely