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Da Vinci’s Virgin of the Rocks is one of many artworks based upon a biblical passage. The painting is characterized for its aerial landscape.
Assumption of the Virgin is an artwork by Renaissance painter Titian. It depicts the coronation of the Virgin Mary with utmost perfection.
The Calling of St Matthew is a 16th-century artwork depicting extraordinary usage of light & expressions to portray the first interaction between Christ and Saint Matthew.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau painted Dante and Virgil based on the Divine Comedy Poem by Dante Alighieri. The academic style artwork portrays them witnessing the cruelty of the 8th layer of hell.
Le Désespéré is one among the most famous realist self-portrait of the 19th century. The art depicts Gustave Courbet & his early rejection.
Oedipus and the Sphinx is a Symbolist artwork depicting the mythological scene of Oedipus’s confrontation with Sphinx, a beautiful blonde woman with unusual body.
Byzantine art, commonly characterized by the art style of the Byzantine empire, is the earliest form to leave naturalism behind and exhibit Christianity, further leading to evolution in later periods.
The renaissance period was a phase under which artists experimented with volume and shapes. Renaissance art dominated for its realism.
The Creation of Adam (Italian: Creazione di Adamo) is an exquisite depiction of the God and Human and one of the artworks on the Sistine Chapel.
Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci is his adoption of the Vitruvius’ findings to depict the human symmetry, its connection to architecture and how human is a link between the earth and the universe.
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