Renaissance+and+Reformation+Painting

Sistine Chapel Fresco || The Arnolfini Portrait ||
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 * The above image is a portion of the ceiling fresco done by Michelangelo Buonarroti in about 1508-1512. The painting was from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican Palace in Rome. This was a very common type of art done during the Renaissance and Reformation. You can tell from the image that Michelangelo was a humanist. During that time, humanists used art to combine religious figures with Greek and Roman art. The figure in the green and orange robes was a portrait of Pope Julius II, but he is placed in a Greek or Roman background. This style was very common of humanists of that era.Since their patrons paid them to create religious art, they were forced to incorporate religious figures into it, but being humanists, they tried to include Greek and Roman backgrounds. Doing this, humanists were able to obey the patrons' guidelines while still trying to bring back the core subjects of ancient Greece and Rome. |||||| This image entitled The Arnolfini Portrait was created in 1434, at the begining of the Renaissance. The artist is Jan van Eyck, and you can tell that it was one of her paintings by the use of bright colors. Jan van Eyck and her husband, Hubert, painted townspeople, like the above image, and used strong colors. The painting is two people inside their home. From the image, you can infer that many people of the time had wood floors, beautiful chandeliers, and colorful furniture. The women wore long dresses and both the men and women wore headresses or hats. ||