ART F200X Blogs

I have decided to pick "Las Meninas"   (1656) by Velazquez, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y for this week's Baroque Blog. This painting was created on a 320.5 x 281.5 cm canvas as oil painting and it is displayed at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain. This painting was "one of Velazquez's largest paintings and he made more effort to create since it has a sense of life and reality while enclosing a dense network of meanings."  (“Las Meninas - the Collection - Museo Nacional Del Prado”). If we look at this painting, it will seem like they are looking at us, which makes it amazing and mysterious in what they are actually looking at.   The scene that was put for this painting was "carefully constructed using perspective, geometry, and visual illusion to create a tangible space, but one with an aura of mystery, where the spectator's viewpoint is an integral part of the painting."  (Owen). Velazquez not only "captured the physical likeness of his s

For this week's blog, I decided to pick Raphael's painting The School of Athens . This painting was made in the year 1508-1511 and its current location in Apostolic Palace, Vatican City, Italy. This painting was part of the Stanza della Segnatura series which is a "room in Pope Julius II's private apartments in the Vatican." ( Pulimood ). It was considered to be one of Raphael's most famous artwork pieces of the Renaissance. The Fresco painting itself was 500x770 cm (200x300 inches) and has a label above it that says "Causarum Cognitio" which means " Knowledge of Causes ". The first time I have seen this painting, the first thing I noticed was how amazing the linear perspective was used on the building, making it look like you can see farther. It looked so detailed, and it really looked like you were able to walk inside the painting. The used of both shadow and light on the painting, are really balanced out to show the perspective of where