The masterpiece portrays the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve. Either sitting or standing, the figures look so true to form it could almost be a photograph. Due to his dedication to one particular type of painting, he was able to portray these animals in an extremely realistic way. Wenzel Peter was an animalist painter, which means that he specialized in painting animals of all sorts. What may look like a scene from the Jungle Book is actually the Garden of Eden. This painting may strike you as odd at first, but you’ll see that it is one of the most devout paintings in the Vatican collection. Wenzel Peter | 1828 | Oil on Canvas | Pinacoteca Room XVI Johann Wenzel Peter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Imagine the excitement of looking into the night sky and seeing all of these heavenly bodies 250 years before TV! The power of their instruments is also on display here since we know they could already see the rings around Saturn! Personally, I feel that looking at this painting allows you to travel back in time to the early 18th century and see what it would have been like to be an astronomer in those days. In the background, you’ll also see many figures observing these gigantic bodies in 18th-century clothing. In the painting, you’ll notice various telescopes and optical instruments that astronomers used to observe the celestial bodies at the time. The only one missing is Uranus, which would only be discovered in 1781. The collection comprises eight canvases, which show the astronomical bodies known at the time: the Sun, Moon, Earth, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and a comet. Pope Clement blessed it and an observatory opened soon after in Bologna, so his plan worked. The idea was to create a strong case for the church to understand the importance of an astronomical observatory.
FAMOUS PORTRAITS SERIES
The Bolognese count Luigi Marsili commissioned this series of paintings to create a collection and gift them to pope Clement XI.
FAMOUS PORTRAITS FREE
Feel free to share it with friends.Donato Creti | 1711 | Oil on Canvas | Pinacoteca I appreciate you taking the time to read this post and I hope you found it helpful. It’s perfect for absolute beginner to intermediate painters. I’ll walk you through the time-tested fundamentals of painting. You might be interested in my Painting Academy course. With night scenes, it’s better to err on the side of more contrast than less.Ī Closer Look at Café Terrace at Night by Vincent van GoghĪ Closer Look at The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh Want to Learn More? The best we can do is create the illusion of light through clever use of color contrast. Is it the moonlight? The reflections on the water? The darks? The lights? Consider what it is you are trying to convey, and push those ideas.
So, to effectively paint night scenes, you should draw on numerous sources for inspiration: your observations, any color studies, photos, famous paintings, and your imagination. And photos are not that effective in capturing dark or subtle colors. Painting on location is a challenge as there’s no way to clearly see the subject, your paints, and your painting under the same light. Night scenes are tricky in terms of logistics.Muted colors, with the exception of Vincent van Gogh and George Henry.Strong value contrast (brilliant lights against stygian darks).Most of these paintings have three things in common: Childe Hassam, Rainy Midnight, 1890 What These Paintings Have in Common
0 kommentar(er)
