Art History
...Mike Frazer
Art Appreciation
Jennifer Swoboda
June 14th, 2008
The Renaissance: 15th Century Italian Painters.
So the first of three painters were going to
explore today will start with a painter from the
early Renaissance is Martin Schongauer. The
piece we are going to talk about is the
Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1480-1490. When
you look at Schongauer’s work, who a son of a
Goldsmith learned most of is skills from his
father’s workshop. He became one of Italy’s
Most highly esteemed painters with works like
Temptation of Saint Anthony, Madonna im
Rosenhag which were influenced by his idol
Roger Van Wyden. (Martin Schongauer archive
1987, retrieved June 14th, 2008 from:
http://www.schongauer-martin.com/).Schongauer’s engravings
techniques were very spiritually intense with the
use of a wide range contrasts, textures, modeling
and shading in his works. (Art, brief history,
Third edition, 2008).When looking at the
Temptation of St. Anthony it’s a very unique
with the many characters usage of different
types of movements, and horrible depictions of
figures attacking St. Anthony in many ways. It’s
a different perspective use of technique by
Schongauer, as well as how he uses it in relation
to religion. This piece of work is not in any form
of 3-d quality or effects when you look at it, it’s
just in one dimensional...
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