Essays on Art History

Jan van Eyck, a Flemish painter was recognized to be one of the greatest northern renaissance artists to have emerged during the 14th century, a period where the Byzantine art phrase was being traded for the realism period (Ridderbos, Bernhard, Anne Van Buren, and Henk 3). Throughout his paintings, the...

Luxury of Islamic Art Luxury of Islam art includes vegetal and floral art, geometrical art and calligraphy. The use of this form of art "conditioned to some extent by the Islamic prohibition of the imitation of living creatures" (Saoud). The artwork did not have a representation of life in them. For...

1.    Provide the title of the artwork, the artist’s name, and list the contents of the artwork. Twilight in the wilderness by Frederic Edwin Church. The artwork depicts the wilderness in all its possibilities. It shows a landscape with a bright sunset of striped, smoldering red clouds over a mountain lake...

Art has endured for as long as man. Societies show evidence of it through figurines, prints, structures, or beautifications and even implements. Art from culture and pre-historic works from the year c.20,000 to 15,000 BCE is named ‘Solutrean Art’ after a region in eastern France (Abadía et al.). In this...

An artistic piece which this paper criticizes is the paintings of a prolific artist known as Leonardo da Vinci. His famous painting is called Mona Lisa that was designed in the 16th century. The art has been brought up in the form of a female human being named Lisa Gherardini....

Late Antiquity Late antiquity was a period of transition, and it was characterized by political climates that were constantly changing, thereby causing shifting tastes in the standards of the society. This period presents a range of artwork which exhibits both a narrative storyline and symbolic imagery, presented as early Christian motifs. There...

In a bid to endorse administration, rulers employ diverse strategies to govern and manage property and subjects within their jurisdiction. Following the extensive jurisdiction regions under rulers, these strategies followed to acquire loyalty and allegiance from their subjects. Further, while persuasion effectively endorses the acquisition of loyalty from subjects, force...

Abstract Composition in Modernist Art Abstract composition is a key feature of the modernist art movement. Abstract art is the use of visual language in which artists create an independent composition of line, shape, and color from the references of the visual world. Abstract art is unique is it does not...

Classical Themes in Christian Art and Architecture Classical themes continue to be integrated into Christian art and architecture in many ways as highlighted by Stokstad and Cothren (2018). The book explains how the classical heritage has been sustained in the Byzantine art. It is believed that Christianity did not begin during...

Art appreciation is the understanding and knowledge of the timeless and universal qualities which identify all great art. Art communicates beliefs and expresses ideas about the experience of human beings. Artwork provides important insights into existing and past cultures. Artists and General Public             Historically, artists viewed arts as a way of...

The engraving depicts the fall of man and Albrecht shows the process of how the man fell into sin. The artwork comprise two people, a male and a female; a man and a woman, a bird, and a snake. There is also a cat, a rabbit and the ox that...

Over the ages art has often been described to as the way of life. Art in addition is known to evolve over the generations such that it keeps improving in either the presentation or on the particular way. Simply, what really is art? Art has been described as the expression...