#thank you botticelli art is a cycle

[romeoisalesbian]

the birth of gabriel

this is the season two trailer, right?

[ars-historia-est]

I was wondering if you have any favorite artists / works or a specific era you prefer to study. I suspect this might be hard to answer, sorry! ♡

Oh anon,thank you so much for the question and sorry for the time it took to answer! You’re right, this is a very tough question,but thanks for the chance to speak about some of my most favourite subjects. I suppose you are talking about art history, so I can tell you first hand,I find it very hard to choose. Every era and artistic movement has amazing artists and beautiful themes,and moreso all are organic and important to the history of art. Renaissance,mannerism,neoclassicism,impressinionism,orientalism,realism,surrealism..furthermore Hindu schools of painting,Persian miniatures,Japanese ukiyo-e artists, painters of Native Americans,Golden age of illustration….I could list you countless examples of artists and works I adore. But since that would be inconvenient, I will speak about five of my most favourite artistic eras with a small showcase of my most favourite artists. I hope you find it satisfying :)

1. Byzantine (and western medieval art). After all that is what I’m studying right now!

Nea Moni of Chios,Chios,Greece (11th century).

La Martorana, Sicily,Italy (12th century)

Naumburg Cathedral,Naumburg,Germany (13th century).

2. Early and classic Renaissance:

Sandro Botticelli - Italian Renaissance (15th century)

Albrecht Dürer - German Renaissance (16th century)

Michelangelo Buonarrotti - Italian Renaissance (16th century)

3. Baroque :

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian,16th-17th century)

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 17th century)

Diego de Silva y Velasquez (Spanish, 17th century)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian,17th century)

4. Pre-Raphaelites and the wider cycle of historical and literary painters of the Victorian Age:

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English,19th century)

Maria Spartali Stillman (Greek-British,19th century)

Edmund Blair Leighton (English,19th century)

5. Symbolism :

Gustave Moreau (French,19th century)

Odilon Redon ((French,19th-20th century)

Nicholas Roerich (Russian,20th century)

Plus,as  a bonus,maybe my most beloved artist ever!

Domenikos Theotokopoulos / El Greco (Greek, Spanish Mannerism,16th-17th century)

And I didn’t even get into all of my beloved architecture!

Hope that was satisfying. If you’d like, stick around. I plan on focusing some more on my favourite artists and periods and maybe upoloading original and more obscure content.

Thanks once more! Drop by again!