David
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, Italy, 1501-04
Marble, 517cm
The Creation of Adam from The Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, Italy, 1512
Fresco, 480x230cm
Mona Lisa (La Gioconda or La Joconde, or Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo)
Leonardo Da Vinci, Italy, c.1503–1519 (probably finished by 1506)
Oil on poplar, 77x53cm
Renaissance ~ re birth
ReplyDeleteModernism~ begins with Renaissance thought
scientific theory
importance of humanism and human knowledge
Mona Lisa (La Gioconda or La Joconde, or Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo)
Leonardo Da Vinci, Italy, c.1503–1519 (probably finished by 1506):
- dull, lifeless facial expression- half smiling
- wearing dull, dark coloured clothes
- painting of a women sitting down
- the background,
- looks like she is bored
The Creation of Adam from The Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, Italy, 1512:
- first painting he did as an artist
- a naked Adam
- "angels" with God
- looks like he has just been created, God is in the sky- on the cloud
- cloth material covering God, looks like a brain, basically saying God is human knowledge
- Adam is just relaxing, and God is doing the active work and Adam isn't really caring.. expecting everything.
David, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, Italy, 1501-04:
- naked sculpture
- very detailed, everything is so defined - veins and muscle
- holding his slingshot
- tree stump behind his foot/leg
- very realistic
* too perfect
* head and hands are too big
* definitely not matured
* some features are tensed some aren't
* David isn't circumcised
* the only thing that makes David the biblical David A- slingshot
* big hands, being naked = showing off human figure, beauty?
* David clearly isn't Jesus