I am Alessandro and my goal is to make Visual Art understandable by anyone making you able to read any work of art. Understand something in fact is the first step to appreciate it and love it, in particular if we talk about art since it is a big combo of meanings and feelings! But that's what makes it cool right??
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It’s really like a static play, you can imagine the conversations among the participants, it’s simply stunning 🙏 and you can just walk right into the church and view it, with a small donation recommended
no, I said "...the use of the two most perfect geometrical figures: circles and squares" and talking about the inside "...the internal space is so geometrically perfect to accommodate a perfect sphere..." "Globe" is not a geometrical object, the right name in geometry is "sphere"
Mesopotamia, the region encompassing modern-day Iraq, has been a cradle of civilization for millennia. This long history means numerous ethnic groups have likely come and gone over time.
I think she saw the first one and thought "let me put the truth and raw emotion of what the female felt into this picture". The original is unbelievable. Beautiful but unrealistic ironically. Her version is capturing a truthful and gruesome scene.
When I was 15 back in 1975, we went to Rome and back then you were allowed to approach the PIETA and touch the base. It was an amazing experience for this teenager. A few years later some IDIOT approached the statute and started hitting it with a hammer. Now it sits behing protective glass.
Hey, I was wondering, since A.D. is short from Latin why B.C. is short from English? Every language uses different short for before Crist in their native language. Why aren't every one using Latin C.N. ( ante Christum natum)? I just find it very counter intuitive and confusing.
Hi, I know the use of both Latin and English sounds a bit confusing, but we are talking about rules decided centuries ago. If it helps, you can use BCE/CE, which stands for "Before the Common Era" and "Common Era."
I love your videos! You are very insightful and erudite yet completely understandable. As for the horse showing his rear end to us, this seems to be a long tradition in Italian art. Think of the dog's rear in Mantegna's frescoes in the Camera degli Sposi; Paolo Uccello's horses in the foreground of the middle panel of the Battle of San Romano, and I'm sure many more!
Hi Gina, Thank you so much for the compliments. I really appreciate your kind words and your insightful comment. You're right: in Renaissance painting, we can find several examples of animals painted from behind. This is especially true in group scenes like Mantegna's Camera degli Sposi, which you correctly mentioned, or in scenes depicting battles, where we can find several horses in various poses. However, this is precisely part of the goals of Renaissance art, which aims to represent realism as much as possible. Nevertheless, it should be noted that, in all these circumstances, none of these animals are the protagonists in the paintings/frescoes, as is instead the case with Caravaggio.
I had the great experience of getting close enough to touch this magnificent spectacular piece. It truly makes the hair on the back of your neck stick out. How anyone could want to damage it is beyond me. Today it’s protected by thick glass
Great video! I find this work, in its "static but in perpetual motion" aspect and spiraling form, closer to Bernini than any other Canova work. Many of his other pieces, such as Perseus with the head of Medusa, are overly rigid, monumental, and artificial. Cupid and Psyche is his most appreciated piece for a reason!
Thanks for explaining haha - I noticed this when travelling in Europe and started taking photos specifically of all the “ugly babies” in the paintings I saw.
Anyone else think it's disgusting that people think it's right to steal these treasures from the countries or people that created them instead of displaying them in the nearest urban center to where they were found?
@@ExploringArtwithAlessandro It's not. Europeans had a field day stealing antiquities in the past like they owned them and like the people whose ancestors created them are inferior and worthless. The Vatican, the Nazis, the British, the Americans with indigenous artifacts and so on. It's theft. Pure arrogance thinking only we know how to properly care for someone else's history.
