Tag: Renaissance art

• Leonardo’s brazenly feminist portrait

  

  During the Italian Renaissance, women were portrayed as ideals, symbols, and allegories — even in their own portraits. Then one day Leonardo da Vinci and Lisa Gherardini said goodbye to all that.

  Diane Tucker

  2022-06-05

  Art History, Diane Tucker, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Filippo Lippi, Italian Renaissance Portraits, Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa

  Diane Tucker, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Filippo Lippi, Great stories about great paintings, Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, Renaissance art

• St Jerome’s home office is fit for a genius

  

  For centuries, people had their portrait painted to reinforce their role in society. It had little to do with our modern, lonely desire to feel seen for who we really are. Do we still believe a person can be described from a single viewpoint? Or is multimedia replacing the official painted portrait?

  Diane Tucker

  2022-05-22

  Antonello da Messina, Art History, Diane Tucker, Lion, Niccolo Antonio Colantonio, Renaissance portraits, Saint Jerome in His Study

  Alfred Stieglitz, Antonio da Messina, David Valdez, Diane Tucker, Great stories about great paintings, Niccolo Antonio Colantonio, Renaissance art, Saint Jerome in His Study

• Titian paints lust with eloquence

  

  The Roman goddess Venus is depicted nude in works of art because she represents the lofty ideals of spiritual love and divine beauty. Not Titian’s Venus. She represents something more carnal.

  Diane Tucker

  2022-05-02

  Art History, Diane Tucker, Giorgione, Titian, Venetian Renaissance Art, Venus with a Mirror

  Diane Tucker, Giorgione, Great stories about great paintings, La Vecchia, Renaissance art, The Old Woman, Titian, Venus with a Mirror