Venus and Mars
The clan of artists is the citizens of the Republic of Art. They cannot have another designation. But some of the regions of the earth have contributed more to the general beauty of the art and stocks of the artworks. Among major claimants of the contributor countries, Italy can claim, perhaps, the foremost place. When we talk about art, we remember the land of Italy first. The city of Rome and Naples have contributed to the art of painting enormously. The artists who lived here have done their job so marvelously that the people of the art world in general and the Italians in particular would be proud of them. Here are the articles narrating the life and work of some of the Italian artists who mainly had done the figurative paintings.
Botticelli was the first artist who painted this epoch making painting of The Birth of Venus. It was the year 1482. After that the spirit of renaissance entered field of figurative art in its real sense. After the Birth of was Venus painted, the artist who desired painting natural beauty of female bodies have felt much freedom in the depiction of their imaginations.
Titian (1488 - 1576) had developed a style of his own that made his collection of paintings so priceless and popular, as during her artistic journey he had kept changing his style pf painting. The composition which were mainly diagonal, the brush strokes which were powerful, and the style of uploading a colour scheme: these were the special qualities making Titian a wonderful portrait painter.
Eugene de Blaas (1843 – 1932) had mostly painted portraits. His paintings mainly come under category of classicism. He was one of the recognized painters working under the style of painting known as academic style.
Francesco was a romanticism artists. These artists had always respected the reality. But the period of romanticism had paid less attention to the aspects of idealism or reality. The artists following romanticism believed that the passion of love prevails over all the other things. While standing before their canvases, these painters would not confine their artistic passion into watertight compartments. [Images courtesy Sandro Botticelli [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons In the Water, Wikimedia Commons ]
