Research Paper on Diego Velasquez
"I would rather be the first painter of common things than second in higher art." (http://www.historyofpainters.com/valasquez.htm)
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, known as one of the greatest painters in western art, was the court painter of the King of Spain, Philip IV, and was one of the most influential painters of all time. His legendary portraits showed truth rather than beauty. Some of the magnificent paintings he created was the portrait of Pope Innocent X and the portrait of his slave/assistant, Juan de Pareja.
Velasquez’s legacy began when he went became the apprentice of Francisco Pacheco at age 11, a relatively famous painter at the time. Although he spent much of his time drawing religious paintings, he had much interest in paintings that showed naturalism. After 6 years of apprenticeship, velasquez got the opportunity to take a portrait of the Duke of Olivares due to his Master, Francisco Pacheco. The Duke of Olivares recommended velasquez to the King, and so velasquez painted the king as well. The King decided that no other person will make a portrait of himself and appointed velasquez as the court painter.
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This beautiful piece of art was painted in Rome and exhibited beneath the portico of the Pantheon in March 1650. It is said that with all the applause it received many thought everything else was art, but this alone like truth. This brilliant canvas showed Juan de Pareja with nice clothes but with little points such as rips to show that he is of a lower class. Aside from the astounding artwork that this portrait showed, it also expressed the true bonds between master and slave, Diego Velasquez and Juan de Pareja. The popularity of the oil canvas that velasquez painted before painting the portrait of Pope Innocent X was breathtakingly surprising and to this day it is known wide in the name of Diego
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Velazquez’s Juan de Pareja and Peale’s George Washington differ greatly in their presentations and subject matter, as well the contexts in which they were painted. While George Washington was a famous and powerful leader, rendered with bright colors and a high level of precision, Juan de Pareja was a slave, painted with loose brush-strokes and in plain colors. Despite the apparent differences between these two works, they share a common purpose that is intrinsic to portraits, the exaltation of their subjects.
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Now is the time in this period of changes and revolution to use a revolutionary manner of painting and not to paint like before. - Pablo Picasso, 1935. (Barnes)
Titian had many accomplishments in his lifetime. In 1518, Titian’s Assumption of the Virgin was shown at the Church of the Frari in Venice. It was in this composition that Titian seemed suddenly to absorb the achievements of the Roman High Renaissance style. At the time, it was learned that Titan had not traveled much, and therefore assumed that he squired this knowledge of art by visiting artists, studying their drawings and reproductive engravings. During the decades following his appearance in the art life, Titian’s reproductions placed him along with Michelangelo, as the most powerful artist in Europe. He was recognized for his mythical paintings, three of which he created for Alfonso I d’Este of Ferrara, called The Bacchanal of the Andrians, The Worship of Venus, and Baahus and Ariadne. Among his many patrons, the most important were the Spanish Habsburgs. Titian’s fame, wealth, and social position resulted from his patrons and admirers. His major artistic inhibitions included being especially creative with diagonal placing and perspectives, as well as setting up unusual spectator viewpoints. Among his most famous works, rests the picture known as The Gypsy Madonna. This picture ...
Born in 1886 Diego Rivera was born to a wealthy family living in Guanajuato, Mexico. At the age of two his twin brother died and a year later Diego Rivera started drawing, his parents caught him drawing on walls and instead of punishing him nurtured his artistic side by enabling him with the supplies he needed. Throughout his life Diego Rivera was dedicated to art, “He began to study painting at an early age and in 1907 moved to Europe. Spending most of the next fourteen years in Paris, Rivera encountered the works of such great masters as Cézanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and Matisse.” Influenced by the work of such great minds Rivera began the search for his own signature and contribution to modern art, “Rivera was searching for a new form of painting, one that could express the complexities of his day and still reach a wide audience.” Rivera found the medium he was looking for, a form of street art involving murals painted on fresh plaster, he returned to Mexico to introduce this new form of art to the public. Rivera soon sewed himself into the art community in America, “His outgoing personality puts him at ...
Goldwater, Robert and Marco Treves (eds.). Artists on Art: from the XIV to the XX Century. New York: Pantheon Books, 1945.
I choose to look at the painting “The Toilet of Venus” or more commonly referred to as “The Rokeby Venus” by Diego Velalazquez. The “Rokeby” part came into effect, because the painting was originally displayed in the Morritt Collection at Rokeby Hall in Yorkshire, before being moved to its current home in the National Gallery. Diego Velazquez was born in Seville in 1599, and went on to become one of the most brilliant and influential painters ever to come from Spain. He lived in Madrid for most of his adult life, and was employed as a court painter. Throughout his career, he tackled a wide variety of subjects, such as landscapes, scenes from real life, and mythological/religious figures. He was a master realist who excelled at capturing essential features upon the canvas. He painted “The Rokeby Venus” between 1647 and 1651, and was his only nude portrait, as well as the first one in Spain, at that time. Initially the painting met with some disapproval, especially from the Church, since it was a nude, but eventually the work received great praise, and became known, as being one of the most beautiful and significant portrayals of Venus in the history of Western Art.
Diego Siloe was a famous Renaissance architect and sculptor from Spain. His actual name is Diego de Siloe but he goes by just Diego Siloe. He was born in Burgos, Spain in the year of 1495. He was also raised in Burgos until he moved away to Granada in 1528. The first part of his career was spent in Burgos from 1519-1528, where he built some famous sculptures. One of them is the staircase located in the Burgos Cathedral, and the Santa Maria del Campo bell tower that he helped with. The second part of his career started in 1528 when he moved to, Granada and worked there until the time of his death in 1563. Some of his famous sculptures in that time was the Holy Family, and the Saint John.
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Andreas Vesalius was well known for his dissections in the 1500’s. Growing up in Brussels he was captivated by the anatomy of animals. Throughout his childhood Andreas dissected many small animals trying to uncover life’s mystery. This curiosity regarding anatomy came very naturally, due to the fact that he was born into a family of physicians. Vesalius started his formal education at the University of Louvain; then traveled to Paris to continue his studies in medicine. During his life time, Vesalius was an accomplished physician, and professor of anatomy. He also received his degree as a doctor of medicine at the age of twenty-two. Vesalius writings and teachings set the foundation of anatomy we know today, hence why he received the title; founder of modern anatomy.
No painter, not even Michelangelo, had been as famous as this in his own lifetime. And it
how much he admired him that the painting he did was thought to be the