Many people criticized Michelangelo for painting the Sistine Chapel . It really tainted his image as a painter. He was criticised for the way he positioned the figures and for the way he painted them. They were very erotically displayed. The nude figures gave offence. It was seen as pagan and Neoplatonic2. The Last Judgement3 was the most erotic painting, which was placed in the centre; it had a lot of prominence. After all this fiasco, Michelangelo was denounced in 1549 as an "inventor of filthiness, who cared more for art than for devotion." After his death loin clothes were painted on the figures. Contemporaries called his art and personality his terribilita4.
An author that knew both Michelangelo and El Greco decided to write about the lives of artists. His name was Giorgio Vasari. He idolized Michelangelo as an artist and to revere him as a man. Michelangelo too valued and encouraged his friendship. In his book, The Lives of Artists, Giorgio Vasari seemed very impressed by Michelangelo's works of art. He was especially excited about the Sistine Chapel. He named Michelangelo a perfectionist. Vasari stated that Michelangelo's work was the beacon of our art. He also mentioned that any other painter should not waste their time coming up with innovations and inventions, or new poses as Michelangelo has already done it in perfection. He was also thrilled about the fact that Michelangelo created nudes of different body sizes and in different poses. According to the book Lives of Artists by Giorgio Vasari, Michelangelo was also said to have the gift of poetic expression. He also said that Michelangelo was a renaissance man, as he was a great sculptor, painter and architect that ever lived. In spite of all those comments Vasari does criticize him for inability to paint portraits. .
These criticisms look to be very positive. Vasari really enjoyed the work of Michelangelo and thought that it was a very progressive form of art.
El Greco is with out a doubt the most remarkable "Spanish" painter. ... El Greco, in my opinion is one of the best Spanish painters. ... El Greco was soon to settle in Toledo. ... El Greco broke these rules with amazing paintings such as The View of Toledo. ... I felt as if I was guided and directed by El Greco. ...
El Greco Domenikos Theotokopoulos, most commonly known as El Greco, lived from 1541 to 1614. ... It was here in Italy where he became known as El Greco, or "the Greek," due to the tradition of recognizing an individual based their origins. ... Although El Greco's artwork did not appeal to the accepted renaissance standards, it is widely cherished by modern day tastes. ... From 1590 until his death, El Greco's production of art was tremendous. ... Towards the end of his life, El Greco's paintings were expressed with severe deformation of the human body. ...
El Greco was a deeply pious man and formed an instant affection for the city(joslyn.org). ... El Greco took some liberty in his placement of the dominant structures. ... This landscape was very unusual for both El Greco and Spanish art. ... El Greco used this technique similarly in his Agony in the Garden. ... A theme which dominates throughout El Greco's catalogue of The remarkably intimate mood of El Greco's genre is the essential reason "for the inability of others to follow him" (Wethey 49). ...
The artists during the Golden Age that were well known are El Greco, Valasquez, and Goya. ... El Greco, whose name obviously means the Greek, was from Crete and he moved to Spain. ... El Greco's most famous picture is the Burial of the Count of Orgas. ... After the age of El Greco, Valazquez was rising up. ...
In difference, El Greco (Spain 1541-1641) worked it with oil color on canvas by vertical format. ... In El Greco's painting, every five people are focused on Jesus and bless him. ... The angel figures in El Greco's are as humans that they are looking something like a name list. ... However, El Greco's painting is worked as tone by colors. ... El Greco's painting is focused to angels who are placed on top. ...
The View of Toledo The View of Toledo is a famous painting by El Greco. El Greco is an artist who was born in 1541 and died in 1614. The View of Toledo is now located in the in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the H.O. Havemeyer collection. The sky is the first art of the painting I am going t...
The baroque has been called a theatrical style, one that deals in spectacle, grandeur, and dramatic contrast. Test these concepts in an essay that discusses the baroque as an expression of the Catholic Reformation, Protestant devotionalism, the Scientific Revolution, and the Age of Absolutism. Defin...
Este es un movimiento espiritual que tiene su origen en los pensamientos del siglo XVIII, en este se proclame el individualismo a ultranza y el nacionalismo como dimension colectiva. ... Ahora se prefiere la noche mas que el dí ya que se considera donde esta el Alma del Universo, camino inevitable, para la ensoñacion (el camino inevitable para alcanzar los paraasos perdidos). Este estilo se apoya en las experiencias artasticas del siglo anterior, pero sustituyendo la Antiguedad Greco-romana por la Edad Media (principalmente por el gotico). ... El gusto por lo medieva...
