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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Renaissance painting"”.
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Of Her Substance: Dress and Fecundity in Renaissance Painting
… This dissertation centers a common Italian Renaissance female dress shape, a forward swell of skirts above the womb, usually mistaken by beholders as a visual indication of pregnancy. I term this silhouette gravid dress. I examine how early modern dress illustrated and tailored Renaissance …
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The Anatomy of Disgust and the Sublime in Metamodern Painting
… of life/death and attraction/repulsion using Renaissance painting techniques that include the application of solvent and linseed oil glazes, as well as Galkyd Lite and MSA Gel, to assist in the realistic replication of the flesh of animals that meet death at the hand of humans, by attack of …
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Hoc est enim corpus meum: christian art and passion inonography in the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Jean-Luc Godard
… by using figuration adopted predominantly from Renaissance painting, but also from the work of later painters such as Goya and Manet, in the case of Godard, and more transgressive twentieth-century interpreters of Passion iconography, such as Francis Bacon, in the case of Pasolini. Through close …
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DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI AND THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE: ENVISIONING AESTHETIC BEAUTY AND THE PAST THROUGH IMAGES OF WOMEN
… knowledge and interpretation of the Italian Renaissance during the 1860s. I argue that there is a relationship between Rossetti’s Aestheticism and his understanding of the Italian Renaissance and that this relationship is visibly manifested in his images of women from the period. In Victorian …
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"Art is religion:" Adolf Hoelzel's modernism
… was rooted in his understanding of European painting tradition, particularly Gothic and Northern Renaissance painting, as well as the artwork of children and the mentally ill, thus tying his investigations to larger themes of primitivism in European art. Even as his work moved farther away …
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Heroic painting and its contemporary interpretation
… notions of heroism in painted masterworks of the Renaissance-Baroque era and channeling such formats, style, and overall structure of the painting of that time period into my own paintings. This paper communicates the manner in which certain popular culture characters in my paintings - taken from …