The Piety

BASIC INFORMATION:

Title: The Piety
Author: Michelangelo
Year: 1498-1499
Style: Renaissance
Technique: Marble
Location: Basilica of San Pedro of Vaticano, in Rome
General description: The Piety is a sculpture that represent the Virgen Maria and Cristo.

The Piety is a sculpture of Michelangelo. Michelangelo is an architect, sculptor and painter italian renaissance. He was considered one of the grestest artists in history for his sculptures, paintings and architectural works. Some of his sculptural works are: La Virgen de la Escalera, La Madonna de Brujas, El David; paintings: La Tormenta de San Antonio, Santo Entierro, Sagrada Familia... and architectural works: reconstruction of the facade of the basilica of San Lorenzo, Sacristia Nueva and many more.... Other architects are: Giotto, Brunelleschi, Alberti, Donatello, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci....
This sculpture is part of cinquecento (16th century). The Renaissance is a new style originated in the small Italian states.
The Piety was created in 1498-1499 in the Basilica of San Pedro of Vaticano in Rome.
It is a free standing figure and the tecnhical means ir marble. The volume is pyramidal.
It is religious and is part of the Bible. In the sculpture, the Virgen Maria holding Cristo.
The figure is idealised.

Michelangelo differed from the others because he portrayed intense emotions in his works.
It is cinquecento, Rome became the artistic centre. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael Sanzio belong to this place.

I think that this sculpture is one of the most important because is very nice and represent the Virgen Maria with Cristo.

The Mona Lisa.

THE MONA LISA


 

   



PAINTING CARD

Title: Gioconda/Mona Lisa.
Author: Leonardo Da Vinci.
Year: 1503-1519.
Style: Renaissance, cinquecento.
Technique: Oil on poplar table.
Localization: Louvre museum, París.
General description: The Mona Lisa is a painting of Leonardo Da Vinci that is represent one men, but with some characteristic. It was created between 1503 and 1519, probably is the most famed painting from renaissance, actually, is located in the Louvre museum, París.

The Gioconda or "Mona Lisa" was created for Leonardo Da Vinci, between 1503 and 1519 . The style is from renaissance(cinquecento). In this period It was a lot of good painters like Miguel Ángel, Tiziano, Botticelli… Leonardo Da Vinci was painter, architech, artist, cientific, sculptor... He was a genious in all techniques. Other important work of arts from Da Vinci are "La última cena", "Hombre de Vitruvio"... For that time a lot of painting were humans, because in this time It was antropocentrism, a idea from the humanism that It was a theory that the human is the centre of the universe, this was good for the renaissance, because the renaissance was bassed in the humanism.

The Technique used is oil on poplar (alamo) table, also Da Vinci used the sfumato, a

technique that is obtained putting some capes of paint very thin.

The technique used to created perspective is aerial perspective, this type of perspective

is obtained blurring the background of the landscape. Also the light goes from the left to

the right, for that the right side of the painting is a little darker than the left side.

The colours used are dark colours like black or muted colours and yellows for the skin.

The Gioconda I think is a symmetrical painting , because is a human and more less is

symmetrical.

The function of this painting is didactic, and also It has some characteristics or secrets,

for example we can not say which expression Mona Lisa has or what does it mean the

numbers and letters write in all painting, specially in  the eyes.

The figures used are very realistics, It so realistic that is mysterious.

Mona Lisa is the most famous painting from the renaissance , in the renaissance there

were other painters and It was a very important period for the culture.

Also, actually, It is not known who is the model  and It have been many investigations to

solve that.

For me the Gioconda is a very special painting because It has something that makes it

special.

It is from the cinquecento and the techniques used are  very interesting, the dark colours  

give a different sensation compare with other paintings and the technique used to make    

perspective it is so good.

David de Miguel Ángel

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