Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is known for his early religious paintings that synthesize with the late Renaissance and the decline of the Church's power. His bold, naturalistic style revolutionized Renaissance art by introducing a new style that was adopted by many artists. ... Living with Petersano and working in his studio introduced Caravaggio to Renaissance art. ... "Judith Beheading Holofernes" was made during the very beginning of the Baroque movement of art. ... It is a less complex and more emotional type of art, beginning around 1600 in Rome and spreading throughout...

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Art has been around sense the beginning of time and still thrives today. ... The Renaissance period occurred in Northern Europe and Italy in the 1500s and 1600s. Renaissance means "rebirth." ... Some artists of the late Renaissance painted their subjects with distorted and elongated bodies. ... Michelangelo and Raphel are two more of the many artists in this period that made great contributions to art during the Renaissance. ...

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This painting was done in Florence, Italy during the Early Renaissance period. ... Unlike previous art pieces Early Renaissance art was more focused on the relationships between the painting and the observer. ... In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this painting was with other oil paintings from the Italian Early Renaissance period. ... This piece seemed to be very well displayed, because it was with other Early Renaissance Art pieces and right next to other oil paintings. ... This painting really brought me in from the very beginning. ...

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It evolved during the beginning of World War II when a group of artists decided that it was impossible to paint the normal still lifes and nudes of the times. ... It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. ...

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After the beginning of the Spanish Civil war, Dali made three trips to Italy. These trips gave him a new appreciation for the masters of the Renaissance and the seventeenth century painters of mannerism, which inspired him to draw certain paintings. ... This was all inspired from the masters of the Renaissance and Dali's thoughts on the era. ...

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To transition from egg tempera to oil paints, artists would use egg tempera as a base coat and add light coats of oil on top in the beginning stages. ... Bellini was considered the utmost painter during the Renaissance, who influenced later artists such as Titian and Tintoretto. ...

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A true Renaissance man, DuBois has merged his love of art, poetry, and music into an interesting and diverse career. ... This was the beginning of one of the most turbulent times in America, when the seriousness of the 20th century would become even more serious. ...

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