The Italian Renaissance artist Raphael completes his The Marriage of the Virgin. The Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo completes his masterpiece the statue of David. The Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni Bellini completes his portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan.
These interactive timelines are used to graphically and logically illustrate the development of visual art. The Mona Lisa is an iconic example, still revered and studied today, for these precise qualities. The revolutionary half-length portrayal exhibits a woman, said to be the wife of a Florentine merchant, seated on a chair. The use of sfumato creates a sense of soppy calmness, which emanates from her being, and infuses the background landscape with a deep realism.
Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1906, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. When somebody commented that Stein didn’t seem like her portrait, Picasso replied, “She will”.By 1905, Picasso turned a favorite of American art collectors Leo and Gertrude …