BVA312 - Sisters Wendy's - Week Four

Story of Painting Part 4- Two sides of the Alps

The southern side of the alps was having a heyday whilst the northern were embroiled in religious conflict.

The south took the oil medium from the north and used it with a new range of colour and sense of light.

Bellini, G. (1500). Madonna of the Meadow [Oil on Panel]. Retrieved from https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/giovanni-bellini-madonna-of-the-meadow

'The Madonna of the Meadow' shows Jesus sleeping in the Virgin's lap. It is a natural pose yet anticipates the Pietà, in which his dead body is laid across his mother's lap. 

The landscape shows the farmland and fortified hills of the mainland provinces of Venice. To the left of the Virgin a wading bird, possibly a crane, attacks a snake. This may be intended to symbolise the struggle of good and evil. The vulture in the tree may be symbolic of death.

Titian. (1520). Bacchus and Ariadne [Oil on Canvas]. Retrieved from https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/titian-bacchus-and-ariadne

the union of religion and nature expressed through a rendering of a city captured by a lightning strike.

Rubens an allegory of war and peace.

Sister Mary's part 6

Dutch painter Vermeer

Light was the center of Dutch painting.

Rembrandt 


Spain Las Meninas