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REMBRANDT- THE NIGHT WATCH The Night Watch, the cutdown in the eighteen century to fit into a space in a Amsterdam Town Hall. rambrandt's a genius lay in depicting human emotions and characters. he suggested detail without including it and i find he is taking this appoach in The NIGHT WATCH. Here he concentrates on atmosphere and implication. in the the Barouqe art, the artist invites the viewers to share in an emotional experience, to enter in, rather than to observe. the resulting scene shows great vigor and dramatic intensity,true to the baroque spirit. As a dramatic scene, the painting plays a common perfomance of baroque lighting and movements.Rembrandt presents a symbolic of a free people.some of the figures fade into the shadowa. Other stand hidden by the gestures of those placed in fornt of them. Rambrandt has use light for dramatic purpose only. while in the figures appear realistically. no such claim can bemade for the light sources. references : Sporre, Den...

The Arts of the High Renaissance And Mannerism  Introduction : the High Renaissance painting sought a universal ideal achieved thorugh impressive themes and styles. Tricks of the perspective or stunning renditions of anatomy, stapples of the early Renaissance, no longer sufficed.  the figure also emerged as types again, rather than individuals-godlike human being in the Greek classical tradition.   the Artists : MICHELANGELO Scluptor,painter, architect and poet, he is the greatest artist. he came from a respectable Florentine family and when twelve years old became an apprentice to the Florentine painter Domenico Chirlandaio. During these early years he became a master of anatomy. one of the masterwork of Michelangelo was DAVID(1501-04). michelangelo, David, 1510-04.marble 4.1m. Italy. MICHELANGELO-DAVID   this nude champion exudes pent-up energy, as a body seems to exist merely as an earthly prison for the soul. the upper body moves downward...

  The Renaissance Art Name : "The Lamentation of Christ" Date : 1305-06 Artist : Giotto (1270-1337) Medium : Fresco mural painting Genre : Biblical art Movement : Proto Renaissance Location : Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel, Padua A new sense of space, three dimensionality, and mobility are clear in Giotto's masterpiece. The limitation What is the Proto Renaissance? - Characteristics In fine art, the term "Proto Renaissance" refers to the pre-Renaissance period (c.1300-1400) in Italy, and the activities of progressive painters such as Giotto (1267-1337), who pioneered the new form of figurative "realism", which was fully developed by artists during the era of Renaissence Art proper.her the art of Italy between 1200 and 1400 is the last phase medieval art or the beginning of rebirth, or Renaissance, of Greco-Roman nuturalism. Some art ...

THE GREAT STUPA NAME :The Great Stupa WHEN IT WAS BUIL T:  3rd century BCE. WHO BUILT IT : By the Emperor Ashoka in Maurya dynasty LOCATED : Sanchi , North-Central of India. The Stupa are the one of important monuments reflecting gem of Bhuddhist art and architeture. Originally commissioned in third century BCE by Emporer Ashoka this huge hemispherical dome also know as "anda"mean as Egg and the Garbha.  The height of 54 feet consist and the whole of the Great Stupa is encircle by a railing and four gateway, which are richly decorated with relief sculpture  depicting Jataka tales, event in the life Buddha and popular mythologycal figures. The Great Stupa (Mahastupa) was built at the birthplace of Ashoka’s wife, Devi, daughter of a local merchant. in the village of Sanchi located on an important trade route in the state of Madya Pradesh, India A chatra that is an umbrella like structure made are made of stone crowned the hemisphere brick t...

  THE CHINESE PAINTING IN HAN DYNASTY At most the same time as the Roman empire, the Han dynasty gave China a great empire in the east. The Han dynasty produced remarkable scholarship  and artistry. Three styles of painting existed during the period of Han dynasty that spanned the first century C.E. The first style was a rather formal and stiff style, very geometric and hieratic( somewhat like the Byzantine style), in which were flat and outlined. In contrast,the second style depicted lively action and deep space. The third was midway between the two previous styles, being more painterly and exhibiting movement and lively depictions of, for the example, mythic beings, dragons, and rabbits.  As can see in the figure , a tile taken from the lintel and pediment of Han tomb, masterfully rendered figures are drawn with  brushstrokes that suggest liveliness and movement. The figure appear in three-quater poses, which gives the painting a sense of depth and action, and ...

The Black-Topped Beaker, from a Grave at Naqada  The most elegent forms of Egyptian pottery were probably produced  during the predynastic period. Some of the object placed in graves had been used by the deceased persons in their lifetime, but others  were made exclusively for the burial. Already in predynastic period there were establishment  which specialized in the manufacture of items for funerary purposes, in particular  pottery. These were the predecessors of the necropolis workshop of the pharaonic period. Black- topped beaker, 3600 B.C.  Funerary pottery tended to be more inventive and more decorative than the functional domestic ware, although the two categories  may have overlapped. The decoration of this beaker consists of a board band of a metallic black near its top which is set off against the haematite red ochre  applied to the body. It seems certain that the pattern was at the first created accidentally, by placing the pot...