He was the first artist to make landscape as the main subject of the painting. ... Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born on March 6, 1475, Caprese Michelangelo, Italy and died on February 18, 1564, Rome, Italy. ... Rubens was one of the most famous and successful European artists of the 17th century, known for works of, The Descent from the Cross, Wolf and Fox Hunt and The Garden of Love. ... He would be regarded as the greatest artist in the Northern Renaissance. ...

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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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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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Prometheus Bound, an oil painting created by both artist Peter Rubens and Frans Snyder, tells the story of the mythological creature Prometheus. ... Rubens was very much influenced by the artists of northern Europe of his time so he traveled to Italy where it happened to be the center of art at that period. Such painters as Titian and Tintoretto greatly moved his artistic ways in Venice and then later on Michelangelo and Raphael when he studied in Rome. ...

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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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Just like how we know Michelangelo Caravaggio's life through his police records, there is some information on Vermeer through legal documents. ... Both paintings by these great artists were used oil on canvas for their artworks. ... Vermeer didn't produce paintings quite as much as other Dutch renowned artists, but he is still as equally respected as Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and many great artists alike. ...

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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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