3,000 years of #women’s #BeautyStandards compressed in 3-minute video https://zorz.it/zHDnj | #Audra #AncientEgypt #AncientGreece #BodyType #ConceptOfBeauty #ItalianRenaissance #VictorianEngland #history
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The week in #art: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael. #Drawing the #ItalianRenaissance https://zorz.it/HiElC | #LauraCumming #Michelangelo #LeonardoDaVinci #Raphael #TheObserver #RoyalAcademyOfArts #KingsGallery #reviews
What did people in the Italian Renaissance era think about nudity, modesty and shame? Art — or the lack of it — can reveal a lot. There are far more naked men than women, for starters. "The male body is this absolute focus of creativity," historian Maya Corry told @BBCNews. "This is a Christian society and it's the male body, not the female body, that's made in God's image." Ahead of a new exhibition at Buckingham Palace, Deborah Nicholls writes about the hidden meanings in a 16th-century female nude.
BBC · The hidden meanings in a 16th-Century female nude
ESSAY: Artemisia Gentileschi on How to Properly Decapitate a Man
Let's break down the Italian Renaissance master's JUDITH AND HER MAIDSERVANT WITH THE HEAD OF HOLOFERNES, which was a seminal piece of fine art in my life
One of the art history facts that surprised my students this week is that the "Mona Lisa" is famous because she was stolen in 1911 from the Louvre by Vincenzo Peruggia so he could return her to Italy. The search for the "Mona Lisa," lasting until she was recovered in 1913, made her an internationally recognized painting that everyone had to see. There were genuinely shocked faces around the classroom - I think everyone was expecting me to explain something like why she's the greatest painting ever - so it was a really fun class!
And sure, before the theft art historians knew she was significant because she was a da Vinci, but she didn't have wider popular fame like she does today.
#Raphael Sanzio da Urbino was born & died #OTD (6 Apr 1483 – 6 Apr 1520). His depiction of Justice in the #Vatican's Sala di Costantino #fresco #mural (c.1519-20) replaces her traditional sword with...an #ostrich. Anybody know why? 
(Hint: think possible #AncientEgypt influences...)
#RenaissanceArt #ItalianRenaissance #iconography
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The Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child by Sandro Botticelli, 1485.
"Given the familiarity of the David, it is difficult for us to appreciate just how novel it is. I believe David looks as it does because Michelangelo... was free to carve a completely original work. And that is precisely what he did." https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/how-michelangelo-made-david-into-a-giant-2412/?fbclid=IwAR2buw03QR0pKVDQgVTpaY_lC3D_I96FC-N-Y7DbT9WCSHRPROVVeM3tbAg
#sculpture #Renaissanceart #florentineart #potterdayart #italianrenaissance #arthistory #artmuseum
Saint Augustine in His Cell by Sandro Botticelli, 1490-1494.
The Virgin and Child Enthroned (Bardi Altarpiece) by Sandro Botticelli, 1484-1485.
An irresistible detail from a tiny predella panel by Donatello’s friend, Masaccio: two cloaked men look on as the three kings arrive. Lent to the V&A’s Donatello exhibition by the Gemaldegalerie, Berlin. #masaccio #magi #gemaldegalerie #donatello #predella #renaissance #italianrenaissance #vam #arthistory
Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci by Sandro Botticelli, 1475-1480.
The Spring by Sandro Botticelli, late 1470s or early 1480s.
Libraries, both public and private, are essential components of human culture & creativity. Today I’m pulling some books off the St Brigid Press shelf to brush back up on the histories of type design & printing in the Italian Renaissance, as background for a new little printing project. It’s good to sit down with a cup of tea & these learned, inspiring friends again. (Shop Dog considers all this very boring.)