Renaissance nude art

Leda and The Swan Painting History

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Leda and the Swan da Vinci  –  Michelangelo   – Veronesse.  –  Rubens. –  Boucher  – Delacroix     is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, or Jupiter, in the Roman version, in the form of a swan, seduces or rapes Leda,  the daughter of the King of Aetolia, and married to the Spartan King Tyndareus. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and …

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History of Nude Painting in Art Renaissance Era

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  Nude in 15th to 17th centuries The Quattrocento Nude in Baroque History of Nude Painting in Art Renaissance Era – 15th to 17th centuries Rubens  +  Da Vinci  +  Titian  +  Tintoretto  + Giorgione  +  Botticelli  +  Van Loo  +  Correggio  +  Jacob Jordaens  + Lemoyne. + Le Sueur   What’s the renaissance? The Renaissance was a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages. Generally described as taking place from the 15th century …

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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings Exhibition

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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings Exhibition at Queen’s Gallery

The 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, is remembered this year. For this reason, an exhibition brings together more than 200 of the best drawings of the Renaissance master in the Royal Collection, forming the largest exhibition of Leonardo’s work in more than 65 years.

The drawing served as the laboratory of Leonardo da Vinci. This allowed him to develop his ideas and seek the universal laws that he believed that sustained and explained all creation.

Leonardo da Vinci Drawings Exhibition
Royal Collection Trust – Leonardo da Vinci Drawings Exhibition

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Las Meninas or The Ladies-in-waiting, 1656 Velazquez Painting

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Las Meninas or ‘The Ladies-in-waiting’ 1656 painting in the Museo del Prado in Madrid Las Meninas is one of the most original and revolutionary works in art history. When Diego Velázquez began to paint this painting in 1655, he did not do it thinking of the public exhibition that he has today, but for private contemplation and delight. The work was intended for the private summer office of King Felipe IV of Spain, in the old Alcazar of Madrid.   …

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