I am fascinated by the portrait work of great artists. I constantly research into how to create accurate and life-like portraits. I find that I learn so much from study of the best sculpture artists such as Rodin and Michelangelo.
Much of Rodin’s work shows the ‘non finis’ technique. Here drama and life is created by making the sculpture appear to be trying to break out of the stone. This happens because the base or background of the sculpture is left in the rough state or unfinished. Rodin’s work is generally considered the most important
Bronzino’s Drawings at the Met Bronzino was, without a doubt, one of the greatest Italian painters from the late Renaissance. Inexplicably enough, he has never received a museum retrospective, an honor for which his prolific oeuvre of portraiture is particularly deserved. This premier exhibition of the man, shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is
Much of Rodin’s work shows the ‘non finis’ technique. Here drama and life is created by making the sculpture appear to be trying to break out of the stone. This happens because the base or background of the sculpture is left in the rough state or unfinished. Rodin’s work is generally considered the most important
Bronzino’s Drawings at the Met Bronzino was, without a doubt, one of the greatest Italian painters from the late Renaissance. Inexplicably enough, he has never received a museum retrospective, an honor for which his prolific oeuvre of portraiture is particularly deserved. This premier exhibition of the man, shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is
Donatellos’ Sciattiato Relief of Contessina De Bardi portrayed as St Cecilia in the guise of Artemis. Here is the original portrait carving. She is the sculptured equivalent of the Mona Lisa and even influenced Leonardo in his painting of St Anne and St Mary with the babies, Jesus Christ and St John the Baptist. The