Peter Paul Rubens" painting, "Allegory of the Outbreak of War" on the other hand, portrayed muscular figures that were influenced by Michelangelo. ... Ruben's muscular figures were based off of Michelangelo's style while his devotion to minute detail was of northern influence. ... Perhaps what makes it so impressive is the artist's drive for optical realism. ... Instead of wearing an artists smock, he is wearing his royal court garbs with a knights cross over his chest. ... Both of these paintings are great examples of how artists can work their personal feelings otherwise known...

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Peter Paul Rubens" painting, "Allegory of the Outbreak of War" on the other hand, portrayed muscular figures that were influenced by Michelangelo. ... Ruben's muscular figures were based off of Michelangelo's style while his devotion to minute detail was of northern influence. ... Perhaps what makes it so impressive is the artist's drive for optical realism. ... Instead of wearing an artists smock, he is wearing his royal court garbs with a knights cross over his chest. ... Both of these paintings are great examples of how artists can work their personal feelings otherwise known...

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INTRODUCTION My essay shall be based upon two magnificent artists who used the human form in most of their art pieces; these artists have become quite exquisite in their painting styles and life. ... Leonardo Da Vinci The second artist is more from a modern timeframe, before he died he had created a stunning 22,000 pieces of artworks in many different types of mediums. ... After some time of painting in verrochio's workshop, it was clear that Leonardo had developed into an exceptionally gifted artist. In 1478, Leonardo finally graduated from verrochio's workshop and beca...

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Andrea Mantegna an artist that had lived from 1430 to 1506. ... Each artist showed their own styles, so I can see the different styles of the paintings. ... It is really interesting to compare different artist's paintings with the same subjects. ... The works of Michelangelo and Raphael, as well as ancient Greco-Roman sculpture influenced him greatly. ... These pieces of art are all we have left to remember the artists of these pre-existing times in history and will hopefully always be remembered. ...

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Seriously, though, they must have had a gym somewhere to have models such as those used as reference for famous sculptures like "David," by Michelangelo. ... Not only is one able to perceive a tangible and recognizable form, they are able to spend years unearthing that figure, carefully and minutely scraping and chiseling away at pounds and pounds of solid stone until the life within the white is entirely realized by the artist, seen by the masses, and left as a standing marker of its time. ... Peter Paul Rubens of the Netherlands (1577-1640) was a monumental painter whose work still...

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