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The Loves of the Gods (Carracci)
The Loves of the Gods is a massive fresco cycle completed by Annibale Caracci and his studio in the Palazzo Farnese (now the French Embassy) in Rome. The fresco series was greatly admired in its time, and was later felt to reflect a change in aesthetic in Rome from Mannerism to Baroque.
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Cardinal Odoardo Farnese, […]
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The Last Supper (Leonardo)
The Last Supper (Italian: Il Cenacolo or L’Ultima Cena) is a 15th century mural painting in Milan, created by Leonardo da Vinci for his patron Duke Lodovico Sforza. It represents the scene of The Last Supper from the final days of Jesus as depicted in the Bible. The painting is based on the account, […]
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The Joy of Painting
The Joy of Painting was an American television show hosted by Bob Ross that taught viewers how to complete a painting of a landscape in thirty minutes.
The show was broadcast by non-commercial public television stations; the show was first produced by WNVC in Falls Church, Virginia through the early-1980s, then WIPB in Muncie, Indiana […]
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The History of the True Cross
The History of the True Cross or The Legend of the True Cross is a sequence of frescoes painted by Piero della Francesca in the Basilica of San Francesco in Arezzo. Its theme, derived from the popular 13th century book on the lives of saints, the Golden Legend, is the triumph of the True […]
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The Creation of Adam
The Creation of Adam is a fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti circa 1511. It illustrates the Biblical story from the Book of Genesis in which God the Father breathes life into Adam, the first man. Chronologically the fourth in the series of panels depicting episodes from Genesis […]
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Tanjore painting
Tanjore painting is an important form of classical South Indian painting native to the town of Thanjavur (anglicized as Tanjore) in Tamil Nadu where it is also called Thanjavur Oviyam. The art form dates back to the early 9th Century, a period dominated by the Chola rulers, who encouraged art and literature. These paintings […]
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Stretcher bar
A stretcher bar is a wooden frame used by artists to mount their paintings. They are traditionally a wooden support on which an artist fastens a piece of canvas. Stretchers are usually in the shape of a rectangle, although shaped canvases are also possible.
Since a stretcher is simply a frame, they can be constructed […]
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Spray painting
Spray painting is painting using a device that sprays the paint.
There are several different technologies for doing this.
1. Canned spray paint: The most common type in the consumer market is an aerosol can of spray paint.
2. Semi-professional spraypainting: there are a variety of hand-held paint sprayers that either […]
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Sotto in su
Sotto in su, meaning Seen from below in Italian, (also called di sotto in su) is a trompe l’oeil illusionistic painting technique used for ceilings to provide perspective. The elements above the viewer are rendered as if viewed in true vanishing point perspective. This is used commonly in Italian Baroque fresco cycles in a […]
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Sofa painting
Sofa painting is a pejorative term for paintings that match a color scheme or match a sofa. However, an exhibition of sofa art at the Knoxville Museum of Art proved that art made to go over the sofa could also communicate highly charged artistic messages. The Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in Miami, Florida organized an […]
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