The purpose for Brown is to place Velázquez work "in the wider context of seventeenth century painting and theory." According to Brown, this is somewhat difficult to do because Velázquez was certainly not the normal artist for the time. Velázquez was different in a number of ways. For one, Velázquez was very well educated, especially for an artist. Second, he had extensive time in which he travelled around Europe viewing foreign artists and their works. Finally, and most importantly, the patronages
generation to generation. In fact, one of the earliest forms of storytelling had little to no words to describe what exactly one was trying to say. In our society today, we as humans still use the form of being able to tell a story within a painting or any work of art which does not incorporate words. Knowing this must lead many to ponder with the question: “Is it true a painting can tell a story?” By focusing and evaluating the rhetorical appeals of both paintings and text, we can determine the effectiveness
The Vatican Museums The Vatican museums originated in Rome in 1503 when Pope Julius II della Rovere took a statue of Apollo from his church of St. Peter in Chains, and placed it in the courtyard of the Belvedere Palace. In 1506, the Laocoon was added, and thus began what is now known as one of the greatest collections of artwork in the world[i]. The papal authority was one of the first to open their art collections to the public, thereby encouraging knowledge of art history and culture[ii].
Allegories by Delacroix are rare. If the Liberty Leading the People remains the most famous, the Virgin of the Sacred Heart (Fig.1), the most enigmatic, disappeared in Corsica for one century. In 1981, Jack Spector related its story as originally commissioned to Géricault, and tried to find why Nantes, its destination , rejected it. This article is prompted by the discovery of new document highlighting another title of the Virgin of the Sacred Heart, also known as a Triumph of Religion. It explains