NEW CLASSROOM - AULA D1 (S. Caterina)
Class organization:
Students are expected to participate in class discussions and to take notes on vocabulary learned in class. (25% of final mark)
Students are expected to do their homework directly on the blog. (25% of final mark)
Students will be given a written exam after the last lesson. (50% of final mark)
Students who cannot follow the lessons in class (NON-FREQUENTANTI) can use the textbook "English for Cultural Heritage" (25%), do the online homework (25%) and the written exam (50%)
Powerpoint presentations with relative links will be posted for download under the name "Beni Culturali Files" at the following site:
https://public.me.com/dpickens1
Today we reviewed question forms and adjectives describing people (see last slide of powerpoint presentation: AppLing1)
Your first assignment is to click on the word "comments" and write about the site we tried to visit today (see slide 3 of the powerpoint project: AppLing1), and write a BRIEF (short) description of the museum and the painting you decided to explore in-depth with your group. Don't forget to write your names after your 'comments'.
I look forward to hearing from you!
(Remember that there are no lessons on Tuesday, March 8th!)
64 comments:
Today I visited the Modern Museum of Art (stylized MoMA) … by staying at home! In fact, thanks to the web site “Google Art Project” I was able to be in a city far away from my home just in a second. It allows you to visit some of the most important museums of the world without taking any buses, trains or airplanes. The MoMA is located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States. It’s characterized by important collections of modern and contemporary art. The painting that most impressed me was the “Chateau Noir” by Paul Cezanne. This painting is about a recently constructed neo-Gothic castle. Cezanne applied thick paint in broad and multihued swatches.
Melinda Montone
matricola: 112000241
Good evening,the painting that most impressed me is "Bonaparte Crossing the Grand Saint Bernard Pass,20 May 1800" by Jacques Louis David placed in the Palace of Versailles in France.I choose this painting because it has bright colors and because it transmits the power and value of the subject.I also think that in this painting,Napoleon is very handsome and charming!!
Daniela Amatista
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The Google Art Project is very interesting. Staying at home, you could visit many important museums in the world. I liked very much the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, and I saw the painting "The Bedroom". It was painted by Van Gogh in 1888 while he was waiting for the Gaugin's arrive. The painting (which is oil on canvas) is very simple, and it shows the Van Gogh's bedroom in Arles. In this bedroom there is the bed, with a bedside table and two chairs. On the walls, there are some paintings. I like very much the colours : the doors and the walls are blue. The parquet floor is brown and there is some green. These colours create a very relaxing and familiar atmosphere.
Marina Piccola Cerrotta
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The MoMA is wonderful, but the picture that most impressed me was "The starry night" by Vincent Van Gogh. He is one of my favourite painters and I think this is the best picture he has painted. The sky with its shades of blue and its cool colours dominates the picture. Looking, I imagine the same Van Gogh sitting on a stool who paints what he has before his eyes. It gives me great emotions, it is an amazing scene. How not to envy and admire this famous painter?
Sonia Nicolella
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we visited Uffizi Gallery, one of the most important italian museums and the world. This museum is located in Florence near Palazzo Vecchio. The Uffizi was built in 1560 by Giorgio Vasari for Cosimo I de’ Medici. The Gallery contains works of the most important Italian and European artists, from Gothic to Renaissance.
Our preferite masterpiece is Bacchus by Caravaggio. The painting is an oil on canvas and was painted between 1596 and 1597. The subject of this picture is Bacchus; he takes whit left hand a glass of wine and he holds in the right hand a black ribbon; he has on his head a crown of vine branches. In the foreground, on the right, there is a beautiful fruit basket whit apples, pears, grapes, pomegranates and figs and on the left there is a jug of red wine.
The painting has been interpreted as a Christian allegory of the death and resurrection of Christ.
Castaldi Vincenzo 012002435
Castaldi Aniello 012002460
The “Swaying dancer” (or “Dancer in green”) is the painting which mostly impressed me. It was made by Edgar Degas round about 1877-1879 and now you can admire it at the Thyssen – Bormemisza Museum in Madrid. Usually considered as an impressionist artist, Degas preferred to define himself as a realist or naturalist painter. Unlike the impressionists, in fact, he was uninterested in landscape paintings. But, at the same time, he had been influenced by the new photographic technique and Japanese prints as much as they and soon developed a predilection in capturing movements. He was also extremely fascinated by the world of ballet, as this canvas shows. Here the group of dancers is portrayed in mid-performance with rapid light strokes, using a particular technique named gouache, consisting of pigment suspended in water, which lends more heaviness and opacity to the colours on paper. Among the ballerinas, only one in green is shown full-length, whereas the other figures are cut off, leaving the rest to viewers' imagination.
Laura Fichera
Matricola: 012002754
Thanks to Google Art Project (a web site), I've visited the Museum Kampa today. It's situated in Prague and it's dedicated to the Abstract art. There are both paintings and sculptures but it's not a big museum, in fact there're only two floors and two rooms in the ground floor. The painting that I liked more then others is "The Cathedral" by František Kupka. The dominant color is the blue, my favourite one, so I think it was the first reason because I've noticed the painting. I'ts Oil on Canvas and was painted in 1912-1913. Just after reading the title I've understand what the artist wanted to show us. These abstract forms probably are the colored windows of a cathedral. I didn't know both the painting and the museum before, so I'm happy to have found them!
Carolina Finizio
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Good evening..
I was in Paris last week, and I visited the Louvre Museum: it is very spectacular, but the most beautiful work art that i saw, is "Amore e Psiche" of Antonio Canova. This sculpture was created between 1788 and 1793, with white murble and its dimensions are 155 cm. Was very exciting for me see this work art because it represents one of the most famous love scene in the world, a sublime moment where Love contemplates the face of beloved maid, Psiche!
I advice everyone to admire this sculpture, because it is very amazing!
Natascia Vano
012002841
Good evening..
I was in Paris last week, and I visited the Louvre Museum: it is very spectacular, but the most beautiful work art that i saw, is "Amore e Psiche" of Antonio Canova. This sculpture was created between 1788 and 1793, with white murble and its dimensions are 155 cm. Was very exciting for me see this work art because it represents one of the most famous love scene in the world, a sublime moment where Love contemplates the face of beloved maid, Psiche!
I advice everyone to admire this sculpture, because it is very amazing!
Natascia Vano
012002841
THE PRIMAVERA (SPRING)
Sandro Botticelli painted the Primavera in 1478 c., one of the most famous works of this artist.
Today, the painting is on display in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the world.
Thousands of people visit the museum every day, and most of them want to see this masterpiece by Botticelli before they leave.
This painting is the allegory of Spring.
The nine characters are in an orange grove, on the meadow full of flowers. At the back of the grove, we can see a limpid sky.
In the middle of group there is Venere. Cupido, the God of love flies over Venere and shoots an arrow.
On the right of Venere there is Zefiro, the wind of the Spring.
Zefiro seizes the nymph Cloris and the changes into the Goddess of Spring.
On the left of Venere there are the three Graces that are dancing and Mercurio is removing the clouds with his stick.
Antonella Guarino
Matricola: 012002343
Thanks to google art project i could visit the uffizzi gallery. In my visit the work that have attracted my attention was the birth of venus.
This work was painted by Botticelli around 1445-1510, and commissioned by Pierfrancesco de' Medici. The paint is a tempera on panel and is 172,50x278,50 cm.
The work shows the Venus that born from the sea foam.
Giovanni Rispo
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I found the Palace of Versailles very charming,between all paintings I chose Marie-Antoinette with the rose.
The portrait is of 1783 and its painted by M.L.Elisabeth Vigue-Lebrum, a famous French painter.
The painting is oil on cavas and measure 130 for 87 cm.
In the context there is Marie-Antoinette with a beautiful rose in her hand wrapped with a ribbon.
The background behind her is mostly dark and there are a tree and a black bush, in some point there is light,appear green and blue colors.
Marie-Antoniette’s hair are curtly she wears a big hat with flather.
She has a white dress decorated with laces pearl necklace and bracelet.
Annalisa Giussani 012002603
I have visited the website "google art project" and it's very interesting.
The Birth of Venus is fantastic. It is a work of art of the Italian Renaissance.
The painting is by Sandro Botticelli, datable at the 1484 and it is located in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
The painting' s dimentions are 172.5 cm x 278,5 cm and it's in tempera on canvas.
The subject of this picture is the naked venus on one's feet(standing)on a shell.
The drawing is harmonic and soft, the lines are elegant and the forms are clear and rafined.
Angela Mallardo
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I visited the Uffizi Gallery and the work art that I liked was the "Annunciation" to Leonardo Da Vinci. It was painted about the time he was still at Verrocchio's workshop (1472,ca).
The painting is oil on panel and measure 98 cm for 217 cm.
The protagonist are the Virgin Maria and the Angel Gabriel arrival at the Annunciation of the birth of Jesus.
The original location is unknown but it came at the uffizi in the 1867 from the Sacristy of san bartolomeo.
The work was meant to be seen from below and from the right.
One can see the careful attention to the atmospheric changes in the landscape and the use of perspective.
Arianna Muto
matricola: 015000222
I have visited the website "google art project" and I find it's very intresting.
I choose the Baptism of Christ, that is the early activity of Leonardo alongside the Italian Renaissance peinters Andrea del Verrocchio,in whose workshop Leonardo has his first artistic training. The picture was finished around 1475 and is on display in the Uffizi Gallery (since 1914) in Florence, one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the word.
The painting's dimentions are 180,00 cm X 152,00 cm and it's in oil and tempera on panel.
The picture depiets the Baptism of Christ by John the Baptist as recorded as having been painted by youthful Leonardo, a fact which has excited so much special comment and mythology, that the importance and value of the picture as a whole and within the oevre of Verrocchio is often overlooked.
The drawing is realistic, the lines are elegant and expressive, full of phatos.
Ilaria Ianieri
matricola: 012002672
The site "Google art project" it's a great way to see the most beautiful art works of the world.
My attention was focused on the Doni "Tondo".This painting is the most famous among the very few paintings on panel of Michelangelo Buonarroti and was made on commission from the Florentine merchant Agnolo Doni for his wedding to Maddalena Strozzi in 1504.
The foreground is occupied by the highly modeled figures of the holy Family; the three figures together form a compact group in which the baby Jesus stands out against the intertwining arms of the Virgin and Joseph.
The characters are sculptural,according to tradition of the artist,and the tones are vivid.
Davide Procida
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“The Arnolfini Portrait” is a painting dated 1434 by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan Van Eyck. The painting was bought by the National Gallery in London in 1842.This painting is believed to be a portrait of the Italian merchant Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife, presumably in their house in the Flemish city of Bruges. The two figures are very richly dressed. The painting is also signed, inscribed and dated on the wall above the mirror with the Latin words: “Johannes de eyck fuit hic.1434”. (Jan Van eyck was here.1434). In the mirror at the back of the room, we see the whole image of the painter and witness. Van Eyck seems to have been so intent on reproducing every minute detail on his picture. Personally, I prefer this painting because Van Eyck expresses a new way of painting. As a matter of fact, for the first time in history the artist became the perfect eye-witness in the truest sense of the term.
Elisa Iodice
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Thanks to the website “Google art Project” I could visit the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). I chose this museum because there is one of my favourite paintings, the Starry Night.Starry night was painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1889. It is an oil painting on canvas. Subject of the representation is the landscape of a suburb, at night and with some hills on the background.The composition of the painting is simple: most of the painting is occuped by the sky. There is a village and on the left there is a cypress that gives to the painting a sense of melancholy. There is a strong contrast between the chaos of the sky and the peaceful order of the village. The brushwork is swirling and reveals the inner torment of the artist.Van Gogh uses violent and pure colors.
I really like this painting...I love landscapes illuminated by the moon.
Antonella Laus
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Thanks to Google Art Project, today I visited the Uffizzi Museum, one of the most important Italian museums located in Florence.
The Uffizzi houses a lot of important collections and Gothic and Renaissance works.
My favourite picture is the “Primavera” by Sandro Botticelli, painted in 1482.
The “Primavera” is a tempera on panel picture and it is considerate one of the most important Renaissance picture.
Against a background of blue sky opens a garden oranges where there are nine characters around a woman with a red and green cloth on the silky dress.
This woman is at the centre of the stage. On the ground of the picture there is a green meadow with flowers.
The spectators must look the picture from right to left: Zefiro, the wind, is in love and he kidnaps the nymph Coris giving to life to Flora, the spring.
Flora wears a splendid flower dress.
Venere is the center of the scene and she observes and directs the events.
Cupido, Venus’ sun, dances with the three graces.
Mercurio closes the scene driving away the clouds for an eternal spring.
FRANCESCA RIOLO 012002585
Through google I visited the Uffizi Gallery. Among the wonderful masterpieces that I enjoyed most was the sacrifice of Isaac by Caravaggio. I was struck by the skill of the painter who was able to portray the action in the crucial moment when the angel stops Abraham. The expressiveness of the faces is phenomenal, especially that of Isaac, frightened by the mad act of the father.
Valentina De Martino
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The site of google art project in very wonderfull and fantastic!!!
I choose the "SPRING" of Sandro Botticelli, an important Italian Renaissance artist; it is painted in 1478, and it is realized with tempera on panel. Its dimensions are 203 cm x 314 cm. Since 1919 the painting ha been part of the collection of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence (Italy). It is an allegory of the Spring and the symbol of the ideal of Neoplatonic love, expressed with the image to a group of mythological figures in a garden. Its singular fascination is the mistery of its real and the more deep meaning that is again unknows!!!
Lidia Ianniello
012002539
I visited the Tate Gallery in London through the Google art project.
In Tate gallery a painting by Picasso attracted my attention, "Weeping woman". Weeping Woman, is an oil on canvas painted by Pablo Picasso in 1937. This painting was the final and most elaborate of the series. It has been in the collection of the Tate Gallery in London since 1987.In the painting, Picasso shows his companion of the moment, the young photographer Dora Maar, in distorted forms of pain and horror, with fingers like claws, the tissue between the teeth, big tears rolling down her cheeks. A desperate gorgon, an incarnation of the tragedy, a mirror of the violence and political upheaval that Europe was experiencing. The experience of excruciating pain etched on her face is expressed with great intensity and color hard stiff brush. The attention is focused on the cold white and blue of the area around the mouth, and eyes and forehead are displaced, broken by grief.
Benedetta Sofi
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Good evening!
The Google Art Project it's fantastik!
I visited the Uffizi Gallery.
My favourite picture is Nascita di Venere,painted by Sandro Botticelli in 1485 and commissionated by Lorenzo and Giovanni de'Medici.
The painting is tempera on the canvas and misure 278.5cm x 172.5cm.
Venere is the scene protagonist.She is born of the sea.For this work Botticelli joined two cloths.The teacher used vegetable colours united to animal glue.The space is harmonious.The Nascita di Venere is a masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance.
Buca Maria
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The paint that I choose is called "Sleeping Gypsy". It was painted by Henri Rousseau, in 1897, even if, for a long time, people didn't believe in his autograph. This French artist painted in his life following the surrealism movement and, at the end of his career, he was appreciated by symbolists. This paint is an oil on convas. It can be found (since 1926) on the Museum of the Modern Art of New York.
This is a simple paint: in fact we can see a gypsy in a deep sleep, maybe after a tiring wandering, and we can see also a mandoline, typical instrument of gypsy people, and a vase of water, thanks to we could understand the typical nomad life of gypsy people.
We can see also a quiet lion beside her, and symbolists believe that it's quiet state is the result of magic power of the gypsy (according to some legend).
In the end, there's a thing that realizes suggestive landscape: the moonlight effect.
VALERIA DE GREGORIO
Good afternoon!
With the help of Google Art Project I visited the Uffizi, the painting that impressed me is Judith and Holofernes, painted by Artemisia Gentileschi in 1620.
It 's a painting made with oil technique on canvas, size 199x162 cm
The episode represented, is narrated in the book of Judith, the biblical heroine who, with her maid, beheads the fierce enemy general Holofernes. What impresses is the realism and expression of the faces at the crucial moment of decapitation. In fact, contemporary critics see in this representation, the desire for revenge violence against women, inflicted by the same artist by Agostino Tassi.
Roberta Zambardino
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Good afternoon!
With the help of Google Art Project I visited the Uffizi, the painting that impressed me is Judith and Holofernes, painted by Artemisia Gentileschi in 1620.
It 's a painting made with oil technique on canvas, size 199x162 cm
The episode represented, is narrated in the book of Judith, the biblical heroine who, with her maid, beheads the fierce enemy general Holofernes. What impresses is the realism and expression of the faces at the crucial moment of decapitation. In fact, contemporary critics see in this representation, the desire for revenge violence against women, inflicted by the same artist by Agostino Tassi.
Roberta Zambardino
015000232
I visited the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, which features the beautiful painting by Botticelli, The Birth of Venus.
Icon of the Italian Renaissance as well as from the same Florence and its art, is one of the creations of a higher aesthetic point of view of the master Botticelli.
Its location on the shell is unstable. Feet slightly apart with your weight on the left unbalanced. All want to give the impression of balance and harmony. Her nude figure is highly idealized, that respects the ideal of beauty and perfection, so as to present particular almost inhuman. The ideal of beauty of Botticelli's Venus is the same: thin, fair-skinned. The goddess does not seem embarrassed, perhaps because it is above this human feeling.
Vitulano Emanuele
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Hi!! My favourite painting is "L'Urlo" of Munch. It was paited in 1893 and now it is situated in the National Gallery of Oslo. It trasmits me disperation and horror! I like it for bright colours... I think to apocalypse! I feel also anxiety and solitude, but I love it!
Valeria Vanacore
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I choose an important picture of the Palace of Versailles that represents the queen Marie Antoniette with her children. This Picture was composed by Elisabethe Vigèe-Le Brun in 1787 ,two years after scandal of the necklace where the French queen was seen by the people as a foreigner who spents the money of the state on the whims. For this reason the queen commissioned this painting where she is with her children. I like this picture because i'm fascinated by France, its history and especially that of Marie Antoinette, who in this context is represented not as Queen but as a devoted mother to her children.
Antonella Frate
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Good evening!I visited today the MOMA (the museum of a modern art)in New York and the painting that most impressed me is the Starry Night created in 1889 by the painter Vincent Van Gogh.Is an oil painting on canvas and represents starry sky above the town of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in France.I love this picture because it give me emotions and peace and I like the colors.
Elena Ansalone
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I could explore the Uffizi Gallery, through the web-site Google Art Project, just staying at my home.
This museum is situated in Florence and hosts innumerable artistic works that belong to the most important exponents of the Gothic and the Reinaissance period, like Michelangelo, Giotto, Leonardo Da Vinci and so on.
I was particulary interested in Caravaggio's painting called "The adolescent Bacco".
This picture represents the wine's divinity who has red-cheeks and a glass of wine in his hand.
The painting, made between the 1596 and the 1597, was given to Ferdinando I de Medici by the chardinal Francesco Maria del Monte.
Ludovica Caravante
Matricola: 012002900
Through Google Art Project i searched the various museums for a picture i could like. At the end i chose the Alte Nationalgalerie of Berlin. I found a painting by Carl Blechen, a not really famous one, called "Forest path near Spandau". I really liked this painting. All the space of the higher canvas is occupied by dark trees which cover the sky entirely. A greater tree is in the left of the painting, disjoining in three logs. It's nicely placed just ahead a more clear zone of vegetation. This tree grasps the earth on the right, letting his left side above a black river. More far from it, the tall trees form a natural arch, the only opening to the external world. In this "external door" we can see a building, seems a gothic church. There's also a comfortable twilight, which creates a contrast with the rest of the painting, not too rough, but gradual. In the low part runs a road with a bridge. The earth is wet, and partially reflects the trees. The clearer zone of the entire painting is its low center, where a woman dressed in white has put her load on the railing of the wooden bridge. She seems to be staring at an area outside the painting itself, at something that will stay forever a mistery for the observer, like also whatever lies over those trees. I liked this picture because gives me the impression she traveled alone for a very long time, before finally exit this dark forest, which could represent some kind of sensation of loss. Oppositely, the light of this twilight standing behind the forest promises the end of this sensation, and an overdue rest. The church itself is an allegory that recalls the home. It is directly in front of the observer, and forms an almost straight line with the woman, an imaginary line that, helped by the use of darkness and light, makes us anticipate her direction. The thematic of the spiritual search is really strong in this painting, and this is the reason i liked it.
Michelangelo Bellucci
Matricola: 015000224
The painting that most impressed me is Sunfowers by Vincent van Gogh,built between 1888 and 1889.Sunflowers are the favorite subjects and most famous Dutch painter.Van Gogh painted several versions of sunflowers and one of them presented it to his friend Paul Gauguin.Sunflowers are represented in the flowering stage, from bud withering.The painting is animated and seems happy and lively.
Flavia Castellano
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"Mars and Venus United by love" is a Paolo Veronese's work painted in 1570 and located in the Metropolitan museum of New York.
The picture was part of the collection of Emperor Rudolf II of Prague.
It is an oil on canvas that represents Cupid who ties the legs of the god of love with these of the god of the war and he unite them in love.
Veronese is one of the greatest painters of light and color, and his works had a great influence on the artists who came later.
Gabriella Navarro
Matricola : 012002893
This night "staied" at Florence..
the Doni "tondo" is a tempera on plate made by Michelangelo Bonarroti in 1504. It's in Uffizi Gallery.
It shows the holy family.
The three figures make an imaginarie triangle and the centre of the picture is close in the inclose of Madonna's right arm and Giuseppe's left arm.
One of the particularity is that the frame is made by Michelangelo too.
In the first level there is the Virgin, she turns herself to takes the Baby from the Giuseppe's arms.
The sweetness of the act contrasts with the titanism of the corps; I think it's wonderful.
In the landscape there are the "igniudi", simbol of paganism.
The two levels are link to San Giovannino (at the right of the family).
Michelangelo uses bright colors.
This is the onlyone Bonarroti's pictorial work trasportable.
I love this work because it shows the virgin like a simpol mother in a normal family and in that inclose there is the biggest love: parent's love.
You should see it..
Palmer Federica
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I have visited the website "google art project" and I find it's very intresting.
I choose "the spring".
The spring is a paint made by Sandro Botticelli and this picture has a considerable allegoric meaning.All characters are nine.
two men in foreground , six women in second ground and finally in high zone of the picture there is a little angel.We can read the painting from right to left, and we can meet this characters:
Zefiro:is the wind of the spring. he hugs second characters Clori.she marries Zefiro and she will become third character Flora, who represents the return of the spring and the renascence of culture to florence. In the middle of the picture we can find Venere with a red mantle, on this figure there is Cupido a little angel with his bow and his arrows.
After we can see the Three Graces, who they dance and interlace them hands.
finally we can find an alone e outside character. he is Mercurio and he dissipates the clouds of winter , with his stick.
On this painting the light doesn't have a source and the time doesn't spend, so Botticelli confers to the scene an eternal sense.Finally the composition is very particular , because confers to the picture a waves like movement.Also
this picture is important because represents the renascence of culture and civilization after the dark period of medieval age
and represents a perfect world, who man wants, rich of love and harmony.
Simona Punziano
012002591
Today I decided to visit the irresistible website "Google ArtProject", where you can admire several museums and their famous paintings and works of art all around the world, because it allows to see these masterpieces comfortably seated in an armchair at own home!
The National Gallery is situated in London, in Trafalgar Square. It houses one of the most greatest and finest western european painting collections. I choosed the oil on canvas named "The Boy bitten by a Lizard" by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. This painting shows a young boy who recoils in pain as his finger is bitten by a lizard, hidden among the fruit. It's inusual for a late sixtheenth-century painting to portray a figure so realistically in a moment of action. Besides it maybe symbolizes an allegory: the pain that can derive from love. In this painting and in all Caravaggio's works his short and tempestuous life is represented.
Today I decided to visit the irresistible website "Google ArtProject", where you can admire several museums and their famous paintings and works of art all around the world , because it allows to see these masterpieces comfortably seated in an armchair at own home!
The National Gallery is situated in London, in Trafalgar Square. It houses one of the most greatest and finest western european painting collections. I choosed the oil on canvas named "The Boy bitten by a Lizard" by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. This painting shows a young boy who recoils in pain as his finger is bitten by a lizard, hidden among the fruit. It's inusual for a late sixtheenth-century painting to portray a figure so realistically in a moment of action. Besides it maybe symbolizes an allegory: the pain that can derive from love.
In this painting and in all Caravaggio's works his short and tempestuous life is represented.
Sabrina Riccio
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Thanks to the website Thanks to the website “Google art Project” I visited the MoMa (Museum of Modern Art) and I chose one of my favourite picture: "the Starry Night" painting by Vincent Van Gogh. Created in 1889 the picture an oil painting on canvas. The picture shows a night landascape with some hills on the background, a village and cypress on the left.
In the scene dominate violent colours like deep blue and green but also pure colours like the yellow of the moon and the stars.
I really like this picture cause in my opinion is very suggestive and I think that better than others pictures it expresses Van Gogh's agony.
Maria Vecchione
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The Birth of Venus was painting by Alessandro Botticelli in 1483-1485 (during the Italian Renaissance).
It was commissioned by Lorenzo and Giovanni de'Medici.
This beautiful Vinus is located in the museum of the Uffizi in Florence.
The Birth of Venus is painted on canvas, using a technique of thin tempera.
The theme is Homer and Ovid's metamorphoses. The seascape have a metaphysical tone and almost unreal quality, is illuminated by a very soft, delicate light. The figure recalls classical sculpture.
Mazzilli Giulia
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Visiting the website "googleart project" I was attracted by a painting that can be visited in the museum "Alte national gallerie" in Berlin. I often do this because in this way I can admire a lot of paintings that are in the museums all over the world, only staying sat in front of a computer. It is called "Gorge near Amalfi". I was very impressed by it because it describes the typical landscape of my environment that is Amalfi near Castellammare di stabia. It was painted by Carl Blechen in 1831. He travelled to Amalfi, in the southern of Italy, near Naples in 1828 and he was inspired by its landscape to paint this. The painting shows a mountain landscape; on the background there are high mountains and tress; in the centre there is a bridge, under it a river flows. On the right we can see two woodcutters at work. The painting shows a lifelike landscape as the chimney reveals on the background.
It is an oil on canvas, height 1103,00 cm and width 775,00 cm.
Paola De Martino
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My favorite painting I visited thanks to “google-art-progect” was The Spring painting by Sandro Botticelli (in 1482).It is situated in the gallery of Uffizi in Florence. This picture is very important because represents the renascence of culture and civilization after the dark period of medieval age. In this painting are described nine characters: the first on the right is Zefiro :the wind of the spring, the second character is Clori. She marries Zefiro and she will become third character Flora, in the centre of the picture there is Venus whit her red mantle, on this figure we can see Cupido, the love’s angel. After we can admire the three Greces that are dancing, finally the scene is closed by Mercurio drives away the winter for eternal spring!
Nunzia Palumbo
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Visiting the web site “googleart project” I was attracted by a painting that can be visited in the museum “Alte National Gallerie” in Berlin. I often do this because in this way I can admire a lot of paintings that are in the museums all over the world, only staying sat in front of a computer.
It is called “Gorge near Amalfi”. I was impressed by it because it describes the typical landscape of my environment, that is in Amalfi, near my town Castellammare di Stabia. It was painted by the Romantic painter Carl Blechen in 1831. He travelled to Amalfi, in the southern of Italy, near Naples, in 1828 and he was inspired by its landscape to paint this. The painting shows a mountain landscape; on the background there are high mountains and trees; in the centre there is a bridge, under it a river flows. On the right we can see two woodcutters at work. The painting shows a lifelike landscape, as the chimney reveals on the background.
It is an oil on canvas, height 1103,00cm and width 775,00 cm.
Visiting the web site “googleart project” I was attracted by a painting that can be visited in the museum “Alte National Gallerie” in Berlin. I often do this because in this way I can admire a lot of paintings that are in the museums all over the world, only staying sat in front of a computer.
It is called “Gorge near Amalfi”. I was impressed by it because it describes the typical landscape of my environment, that is in Amalfi, near my town Castellammare di Stabia. It was painted by the Romantic painter Carl Blechen in 1831. He travelled to Amalfi, in the southern of Italy, near Naples, in 1828 and he was inspired by its landscape to paint this. The painting shows a mountain landscape; on the background there are high mountains and trees; in the centre there is a bridge, under it a river flows. On the right we can see two woodcutters at work. The painting shows a lifelike landscape, as the chimney reveals on the background.
It is an oil on canvas, height 1103,00cm and width 775,00 cm.
Paola De Martino 112000216
Hercules and the Hydra
Antonio del Pollaiolo was the author who painted the picture of “Hercules and the Hydra”, which is exposed at Uffizzi Gallery in Florence. This painting represents one of “the twelve labours of Hercules”, the fight against the Hydra told in the Greek mythology.
The picture was painted around 1475 and was stolen during the Second World War, but it was found in Los Angeles in 1963. In 1991 the picture was restored. The battle takes place in a bucolic landscape, the figure of Hercules is represented with all his force, covered with the skin of Nemean Lion, while he prepares to hit the monster with a club. The Hydra is represented with only two heads because the third head was cut by Hercules. The colors used for the monster are very dark and are opposed to the light and bright colors of the hero.
Simone Izzo 112000221
Last week I went to Naples with my bestfriend visited the Museum of Capodimonte. The Museum is in the Palazzo Reale di Capodimonte. In 1735 Charles III exhibited the Farnese Collection in this palace. The Palazzo Reale di Capodimonte contains one of the Italy’s finest painting collections. After the Italian Unification the Palzzo Reale di Capodimonte passed to the Italian King house Savoia and in 1920 it posed to the Italian State. Today we can see the museum as it was opened in 1957. In the museum there is the former Farnese Collection, the excellent craftwork of the Capodimonte school, the painting of Titian, Botticelli, Raphael and Tintoretto and works from the 13 th to 19 th century. The painting that most impressed my is The Trasfiguration of Christ, it is an oil painting on canvas by Giovanni Bellini, datable to about 1490/95 and preserved in the Museum of Capodimonte in Naples. In foreground the painting represent Christ on Mount Tabor that reveals his divinity to the three disciples Peter, James and John and the profets Elijah and Moses are next to the Christ. In the background we can see large Venetian landscape, with hills and mountains. I chose this painting because I liked the colours and lines are elegant and expressive.
Barbara Carratù
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The Presentation of Christ in the Temple, 1465
Andrea Mantegna
Gemäldegalerie – Berlin
The “Presentation of Christ” made by Andrea Mantegna is an oil on wood. The main characters are: The Virgin who is is holding the Child, whose feet are lying on a cushion, while the bearded figure of the priest is coming to take him. In the front is St. Joseph and on the sides the painter added two further figures, which make the picture rather crowded. Probably the figures can be the author’s self- portrait and is wife’s Nicolosia Bellini (Gentile’s sister).
P.S. The Google’s Art Project is an amazing idea!!! It can be a great revolution because permit everybody to see a large number of international works and for the first time plan a really free use of art!
Veronica Febbraro
012002755
Giovanni Bellini’s St. Francis in Ecstasy, in the Frick Collection, is my favorite painting.
It is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, who started this painting in 1475 and finished it around 1480. It is now housed in the Frick Collection in New York City, displayed prominently in what was Henry Clay Frick's living room. This painting is oil and tempera on panel and its size is 124 cm × 142 cm.It portrays St. Francis of Assisi in ecstasy whether receiving the stigmata.the saint's mouth is open and his face lifted to the sky, perhaps singing his Canticle of the Sun.
In the lower right corner, on a rustic reading table, is a skull, representing mortality and in the left middle-ground is an immobile donkey which can be interpreted as a symbol of humility and patience, but also of laziness, stupidity or obstinacy.
The stream in the left middle-ground symbolizes Moses.The saint has left his wooden pattens behind and stands barefoot like Moses.In the distance rises the still-empty Heavenly Jerusalem. It is incredibly beautiful—the composition, the color, the landscape, the compelling figure of St. Francis—everything is in perfect sync.
IVANA DE MARCO
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The Presentation of Christ in the Temple, 1465
Andrea Mantegna
Gemäldegalerie – Berlin
The “Presentation of Christ” made by Andrea Mantegna is an oil on wood. The main characters are: The Virgin who is is holding the Child, whose feet are lying on a cushion, while the bearded figure of the priest is coming to take him. In the front is St. Joseph and on the sides the painter added two further figures, which make the picture rather crowded. Probably the figures can be the author’s self- portrait and is wife’s Nicolosia Bellini (Gentile’s sister).
P.S. The Google’s Art Project is an amazing idea!!! It can be a great revolution because permit everybody to see a large number of international works and for the first time plan a really free use of art!
Veronica Febbraro
012002755
Salvador Dalí y Domènech, was born in Figueres in Catalonia in 1904. His most famous painting is the "persistence of memory" of 1931, in which the invention of "soft watches" becomes a key to his painting.The watch and time is it main characters.
The mechanical time, measured with clocks, is undermined by human memory, that time has a very different perception.
Time is running second personal fees, fast when you are happy, slow and heavy in sadness. I really like his paintings because he manages to go beyond the figure in itself, is a new perception of the "visible." There are four "soft watches"in a desolate landscape, 3 are open and melt in the sun and one is closed and covered with ants. It 'an oil on canvas, the colors are those of the "land" in its markings and blue that characterizes the clocks and the sky.I saw this picture in a museum in Prague during a temporary exhibition, the persistence of memory is usually exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Francesca Collà Ruvolo
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I have visited the Van Gogh Museum through ast project. I stopped in a very charming paint that is "Sunflowers". Sunflowers are a series of oil paintings on canvas made between 1888 and 1889 by the painter Vincent Van Gogh.All of the canvases measure 95x73cm.I understand the wonder to paint these special flowers because it procated the exaltation of great emotion by most people,thanks a different colour expecially the yellow, green and orange colours.In that painting, it was noted that bold brush strokes of pures colours, crisp tone, confident warm, radiant motif have been painted with bright and defined way.
VINCENT AT THE MOMA
The Museum of Modern Art, located at 11 West Fifty St. in NY, in Midtown Manhattan, is an extraordinary place where you can have a complete vision of contemporary art.
Considered one of the best collection of masterpieces of modern art in the world (from Paul Cezanne to Vincent Van Gogh, from Pablo Picasso to Marc Chagall and from Pollock to Boccioni), the MoMA collection includes over 150,000 works, in addition to 22,000 films and 4 million still images. Its history is littered with shows of considerable interest as a retrospective of works by Pablo Picasso in 1939/1940. In 2002, the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi has redesigned and modernized the building.
Sitting at my computer, I can easy start my virtual tour through the halls of museum, pausing on the painting called “Starry Night” by Vincent Van Gogh.
Starry Night is an oil painting on canvas created in 1889 by the great post - impressionist painter that represents the star-studded landscape in St. Remy, Provence.
The strong bold brush stroke and palette china blue and gray schetch olive tree and daffodils. A fantastic yellow summer moon reflecting in violet haze shakes the walls of a St. Rémy june magic sunrise.
Vincent spoke of the painting to his brother Theo in a intense letter.
Prof. Stefania di Vincenzo
Five mouths ago, I went to Madrid: the capital of the Spain. I visited the Prado Museum, one of the most important museum in Europe and I was enchanted by a beautiful picture of Jolies. Jolies was a painter "vedutista" that painted Naples in 700, from different angles, especially from the port to Castel Nuovo, the biggest and important monument of Naples.
Ivan Triunfo
The painting that most impressing me is "Edge of the town" by Eagon Schiele, an expressionist artist, and it is located in the Neue Gallery,in Gaz. The subject of this painting is a city vision.In this painting the artist use dark and dull colors. I choose this painting because it transmits me great emotions.
Martina Squillace
Matricola 012002793
Today I had a look at one works of art of Sandro Botticelli's masterpieces - “ The Calumny of Apelles”, exhibited at the Uffizzi Gallery in Florence - with Google Art Project. This program allows visiting the museum from home.
The Calumny of Apelles was painted from 1490 to 1495 and is of small size: 62x91 cm. It was made with a tempera painting technique.
This work of art shows the Calumny, through the Envy, the Betrayal and the Deception that lead a young innocent man to the courthouse, supported by Ignorance and Suspicion; on the left side there is the Remorse that points out the young man and the Truth that raises up his arm and looks towards the sky.
The scene takes place in a old loggia.
Character's dynamism is highlighted by a strong wind that hits all the characters but the Truth.
Roberta Caiazzo
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Madonna col Bambino e due Angeli is a painting in pastel paint on wood created in 1468 by Sandro Botticelli. At the moment, it is located in the Capodimonte Museum of Naples. It derives from a painting by Filippo Lippi.
The painting is Maria that keeps the child on her lap, supported by two angels. In the background, beyond the marble wall, there is a rocky landscape that has dotted lines. The lines of the characters appear thin and delicate; the tone are light and dark, while the colors are bronze, sometimes deep. I chose this painting because it transmits me harmony, quietly and sweetness.
Laura Di Napoli 012002787
Ten years ago I went with my family in Florence for the first time... the city was very beautiful, but the thingh that have most attract my attention was the painting called "La Nascita di Venere" by Sandro Botticelli. This painting was make between 1482-1485 and it is a tempera on canvas. It is expose in Uffizi Gallery. This painting is a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance, and the picture rapresentes an universal ideal of female beauty. The coulors of this painting are very soft and pale, the line are simple and definite, and, at last, in my opinion the brushstroke are strong and clean. This favoulose painting inspired me to become a restorer.
Maria Rosaria D'Avino
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Last year I have seen"woman's three age" of Gustav Klimt in the national modern art gallery situated in Rome.This painting is very emotionally.It rappresent on the left a profile old woman and the right ther's young woman with a child on the harm.Particularity of the artist is use decorative forms.They are curved and golden,and the colours is warm and bright.
Adriana De gennaro
I visited the museum of Louvre to parigi and the work art that I liked was the "Death of the Vergin" to Caravaggio. It was painted for decorate the private chapel of the family Lelmi.
The painting was created with oil on canvas and measure 369 cm for 245 cm.
The protagonist is the Virgin Maria that was rapresented at the moment of her death. All the people are represented in the lower part of the canvas, while on high was painting a wide red drape with a light and shade effects that help to make the dramatic scene. the light is oblique and illuminates the dispiple's group, the Vergin and finally Maddalena that is in front of the Vergin.
After the work of art was refused by religious because considered indecorous.
Napoli Marianna
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Thanks "Google art project" I visited Palacio de cristal of Museum Regina Sofia in Madrid designed by Ricardo Vèlazquez Bosco architect.
This architecture is a mix of only two elements:iron and glass. Its radiant result is breathtaking.There is a plan whit a clover form and its perimeter is surrounded by iron columns whit wonderful decorations.
I think that it could be a great experience to visit it as soon as possible.
M. Grazia Della Gatta
matricola 012001981
I visited the Uffizi Gallery last year. I love Leonardo Da Vinci becouse I think that your work art ar very expressive.
I like the "Annunciation" by Leonardo Da Vinci.
The painting is oil on panel and measure 98 cm for 217 cm.
The protagonist are the Virgin Maria, on the right, and the Angel Gabriel, on the left, that Annunciation of the birth of Jesus.
There are hot colours and the protagonists are surrounded from vegetation and an architectural structure.
Stefania Siano
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I visited the Uffizi Gallery last year. I love Leonardo Da Vinci becouse I think that your work art ar very expressive.
I like the "Annunciation" by Leonardo Da Vinci.
The painting is oil on panel and measure 98 cm for 217 cm.
The protagonist are the Virgin Maria, on the right, and the Angel Gabriel, on the left, that Annunciation of the birth of Jesus.
There are hot colours and the protagonists are surrounded from vegetation and an architectural structure.
Stefania Siano
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Thanks to the Google Art project I visited the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The museum, opened in 1973, has got the largest collection of Van Gogh's paintings in the world.
The painting that I loved the most is "Wheatfield with crows". It was done in 1890. In this oil on canvas painting Van Gogh shows his anguish and loneliness.
In the foreground there is the wheat field painted in bright colours. The three paths going in different directions through the field represent Van Gogh's uncertainty. In the background, in contrast with the field, there is the dark sky filled with crows that symbolizes death.
Maria Benfante
Matricola 015000220
during the visit to the museo di Capodimonte my attention has focused on a painting by Giovanni Bellini ,the trasfiguration of Christ, oil on canvas. the painting depicts the episode reported in the Gospels where Christ on mount Tabor reveals to his disciples Peter , james and John the divine nature.Christ is depicted next to the prephets Elia and Moses. What fascinated me in this picture, was the armony between the landscape and the human figures involved in the event in a warm glow and intense.
loredana calabrese
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