jueves, 25 de marzo de 2010

The renaissance art



THE HOLY FAMILY WITH A LAMB


Auteur: Raphael.

Work: Painting.

Type of work: Is a oilpainting handmade.

Funcion or subject:
The Virgin Mary helps the Child Jesus to mount on a lamb under the look of San Jose, which rests on a rod.

Decoration or Characteristics: The colors and brushstrokes are a very good match to the original. The scene places in an idyllic landscape in that can be recognized to the bottom a church, the tower of a castle and some houses. In the Christian simbología, the Lamb refers to Christ's Passion.






THE STATUE OF DAVID



Auteur: Donatello.

Work: Statue.

Type of work: Bronze statue.

Function or Subject: The statue shows the David's victory on Goliat.

Decoration or Characteristics: Donatello shows a teen David, with the foot on Goliat's head, which has just cut with the own sword of his enemy and which david still holds in right hand, with another hand he supports the stone with the one that hurt Goliat. It has the serene expression and covers hi
s head with typical hat of straw of the Toscana of which they fall the locks of hair of the hair he takes also a wreath of leaves of amaranth in clear allusion to the Greek heroism and his feet are born by a few boots. In Goliat's head one finds a worn out helmet to the detail with storied reliefs and plant typical adornments of the first Renaissance.






THE MONASTERY OF EL ESCORIAL


Auteur: Juan Bautista de Toledo and Juan de Herrera.

Work: Is a monastery.

Type of work: A monastery by granite.

Function or Subject: The king Philiph II gave the orders to construct the monastery to commemorate the victory of San Quintin's battle on the frenchmen on August 10, 1557.


Decoration and Characteristics: Contemplated from out, the monastery of El Escorial looks like an enormous horizontal, closed an hermetic structure splashed by the vertical accents of the towers that surround the central dome. Constructed in granyte his gray mass is warmed reaching dyes glided in his fronts shoutern and western. The roofs realised bassed on slate shine as if it was a question of sloping walls of silver. The solid and closed character accents was even more for the relative smallness of his vains ones which rhythmically aligned pluck his walls. This stile desornament is the element typical of El Escorial. From the exterior of the monastery we can observed the Strap, the Corridors of the Sold and the gradens.




























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