Photographing Raffaello (Art no.1) by sandra46
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This and the other images of this series are dedicated to Bill, Mark, Chip and all the others, too numerous to be mentioned, that started a discussion about art. If you remember it was triggered by Bill's shot of a pop art saxophone some time ago. This fresco is the opposite of pop art: in fact we are inside the Vatican, in Pope Alexander 6th Borgia's apartments, frescoed by Raffaello. It was a time when classes were rigidly separated, and art for the people was different from art for the ruling elite. Everybody agreed about it, first of all the artists. Popular at that time (when Columbus got lost on the American shores) meant that an artist was famous, not that he made works of art for the people. Yet, it wasn't a scandal at all if models from the lower ranks of the populace, mistresses, lovers, whores and pretty lads, posed to become saints and virgin martyrs. During his short life Raffaello was even more elitist than Michelangelo, but his paintings, as well as Michelangelo's and the other Renaissamce artists, were made not to be preserved in museums (which had not started their existence yet), but to be lived and admired by those who lived in these rooms, and their hosts.
The hands with the camera belong to an unknown tourist.
Thank you for your kind comments.
Comments (42)
Excellent.
Great picture!!
Excellent capture and reflection on the history of art!
I look forward to whatever you want to show us, Sandra! I did Renaissance art, both early and late, for part of my degree, and very enjoyable it was too!
GENIAL.
Great shot of this historical painting. Wonderful colors.
I love this painting! Well done!!!
love history and this type of art too. like pop art somewhat...i know where and why both arts was done so I guess I doing ok there.
Times change and now this art is open to all us common people. Beautiful capture.
Let us recall that at the time of Micfhel Angel or other famous painters of that time, a talented painter must have a wealthy patron that could finance his lifestyle .... namely that the coatings, paints, apprentices, students scaffolds were expensive ... so the painter could only survive by the will of the princes, now sadly replaced by the patrons or the dealers!
Very nice painting and information! Great capture!
BEAUTIFUL
I like your information, and also Claude's replay. great photo and info! RS
bonne photo!!
marvelous photo of the painting of a great master of this art!
Ah, yes...I don't have an art degree per se, but I do have my undergraduate degree in Liberal Arts and this got me into all the fine Italian Renaissance painters and their many works. I'll be looking forward to more. Thanks for the name recognition:-)
Very nice photo!
Beautiful capture!!
Excellent capture, well done....
Splendid composition and colors my friend
outstanding!
this is real art for me...smile... I admit, I am not a fan of modern art although there are some "ideas" which fascinate me, and some concepts which have an appeal to me, for instance the land art movement started in the 1960th in the USA
This is a great shot! My feelings on art and about art are as varied as the artworks themselves.
Such magnificent talent displayed here! We are so lucky to be able to view it now! Wonderful capture Sandra! Thanks for sharing! Much appreciated!
It really is a magnificent work of art Sandra, and one I only get to enjoy thanks to you. It was wonderful to read the history behind art like this and how it was only enjoyed by a select few for so long.
Great shot Sandra and nice history lesson well done!!
this will be a very interesting series especially for me,because i just discovered art if i may say so in 2008. of course i know all the great names,comes from "common"knowledge but nothing deep,so i will follow your courses closely sandra. very very nice.
Alexander Borgia of all people! His daughter was Lucretia Borgia and they were one of the most decadent families of the day. Heck of thing to have as wall!
Fantastic!!!
This is wonderful capture. Sandra. Excellent work.