#Art: Giuditta e Oloferne (c. 1554)
#Artist: #GiorgioVasari (b. 1511/d. 1574; #🇮🇹)
#ArtMovement/Style: #Mannerism #LateRenaissance
Medium: Oil on panel
108 x 79.7 cm (42 1/2 x 31 3/8 in)

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It was said of El Greco that he painted with a piece broken off a wooden cross, without making any corrections, so that "every patch of paint corresponds to God's will." The story is not factual, yet it speaks volumes: it is as if the febrile visions evolved from the roughly defined, impetuous forms at the touch of some mystic power. Yet it is not, after all, God's hand at work, but the painter's passionate faith and talent, which forged a new organic unity from Christendom's two great painting traditions. Domenikos Theotokopoulos from Crete was already a recognized master of the old-style icon painting before he was captivated by the modern western style of Titian and Tintoretto. Wherever fate took him, to Venice, to Rome, and finally to Spain, in his soul he remained "El Greco," "the Greek." A former harlot, Magdalene turned to Jesus's most devoted believer. Following Titian, Greco condensed her story into the single moment of ecstasy: the moment when she, meditating in the wilderness on death and immortality, converts. While for Titian her passionate revelation is accompanied by erotic overtones, here the blinding beam of light seems to purify her, almost uplifting her from the bonds of corporeality. The skull, which refers to earthly mortality, has rolled out of her hand, and behind her ivy, symbol of eternal life, stretches heavenwards. The dawn landscape, bathed in cold moonlit pale tones, is a delicate echo of the emanating experience of spiritual catharsis.

The Penitent Mary Magdalene by El Greco, 1576-1577, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (Budapest, Hungary)

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"Autumn" is one of Arcimboldo's four seasonal portraits, representing the harvest season. It is a composite head constructed entirely from fruits, vegetables, and other objects associated with autumn, such as pumpkins, gourds, chestnuts, and grapes. The figure's face is formed by a pumpkin, with mushroom serving as the nose and various leaves and fruits creating the hair and beard. The overall effect is a whimsical and surreal representation of nature's abundance.

Autumn by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1573, Musée du Louvre (Paris, France)

#ArtHistory #LateRenaissance #Mannerism

Late Renaissance painting of a young female poulty vendor selling a a chicken to a young man at her market stall. Caption reads: No harm, no fowl.

No harm, no fowl

Alejandro de Loarte, The Poultry Vendor, 1626, Museo del Prado #ArtHistory #LateRenaissance

🎨 'Dama con l'unicorno (Lady with the Unicorn)' (1605)
by Barbara Longhi (Italian, 1552-1638)

#Mannerism #LateRenaissance #MythologicalPainting
#Painting #Art

Titian was the greatest painter of 16th-century Venice, and the first painter to have a mainly international clientele. During his long career, he experimented with many different styles of painting that embody the development of art during his epoch.

Self-portrait by Titian, 1550-1562, Gemäldegalerie (Berlin, Germany)

#ArtHistory #LateRenaissance #Mannerism

🎨 'Self-Portrait of the Painter with the Colosseum in the Background' (1553)
by Maerten van Heemskerck

#Mannerism
#LateRenaissance #Painting #Art ##SelfPortrait

🎨 'Eleonora di Toledo col figlio Giovann (Eleanora da Toledo with her Son Giovanni)' (1544 - 1545)
by Agnolo Bronzino

#Mannerism #Painting #LateRenaissance #Portrait #Art

🎨 'Malatesta Baglioni' (c.1537)
by Parmigianino

#Mannerism #Painting #LateRenaissance #Portrait #Art

🎨 'Saint Barbara' (c.1522)
by Parmigianino

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#ReligiousPainting

🎨 'The Penitence of St. Jerome' (c.1527)
by Jacopo Pontormo

#Mannerism #Painting #LateRenaissance
#ReligiousPainting #Art

🎨 'Portrait of Maria Salviati with Giulia de Medici' (c.1537)
by Jacopo Pontormo

#Mannerism #Painting #LateRenaissance #Portrait #Art

🎨 'Cosimo de' Medici' (c.1505)
by Agnolo Bronzino

#Mannerism #Painting #LateRenaissance #Portrait #Art

🎨 'Portrait of Stefano IV Colonna' (1546)
by Agnolo Bronzino

#Mannerism #Painting #LateRenaissance #Portrait #Art

🎨 'Vulcan's Forge' (1565)
by Giorgio Vasari

#Mannerism #Painting #LateRenaissance
#MythologicalPainting #Art

🎨 'Judith and Holofernes' (c.1554)
by Giorgio Vasari

#Mannerism #Painting #LateRenaissance
#ReligiousPainting #Art

🎨 Lorenzo de Medici 'The Magnificent' (c.1533 - c.1534)
by Giorgio Vasari

#Mannerism #Portrait #LateRenaissance #Painting #Art

🎨 'Portrait of Laura Battiferri' (c.1552)
by Agnolo Bronzino

#Mannerism #Portrait #LateRenaissance #Painting #Art

🎨 'Portrait of Andrea Doria as Neptune' (c.1552)
by Agnolo Bronzino

#Mannerism #Art #Portrait #Painting #LateRenaissance

🎨 'Women playing instruments'
by Tintoretto

#Mannerism
#LateRenaissance #Painting

🎨 'Portrait of Andrea Doria as Neptune' (c.1552)
by Agnolo Bronzino

#Mannerism
#LateRenaissance
#Portrait #Painting

🎨 'Lady Godiva' (1586)
by Adam van Noort

#Mannerism
#LateRenaissance #HistoryPainting

🎨 'A Dinner in the Forest'
(1600 - 1613)
by Otto van Veen

#Mannerism #LateRenaissance

🎨 'Water' (1566)
by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

#Art #Mannerism
#LateRenaissance
#TheElements
#AllegoricalPainting

🎨 'Fire' (1566)
by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

#Mannerism #Art
#TheElements
#LateRenaissance
#AllegoricalPainting

🎨 'Air' (1566)
by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

#Mannerism #Art
#LateRenaissance
#TheElements
#AllegoricalPainting

🎨 'Earth' (1570)
by Giuseppe Arcimboldo
#Mannerism #Art
#TheElements
#LateRenaissance
#AllegoricalPainting

🎨 'Winter' (1573)
by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

#Mannerism
#LateRenaissance
#AllegoricalPainting
#Seasons #Art #Artist

🎨 'Autumn' (1672)
by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

#Mannerism
#LateRenaissance
#Seasons #Art #Artist
#AllegoricalPainting

🎨 'Summer' (1563)
by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

#Mannerism
#LateRenaissance
#Seasons
#AllegoricalPainting