Today we examined Jan van Eyck, Dura and Rembrant. Dura was my favourite, he had an amazing diversity of skills with woodcuts, paint, oil paint, drawings and everything elso imaginable. His images had the most intricate detail and amazing symbolism. Jan van Eyck was the first artist ever to use oil paint and i was quite inpressed with that …
Today we examined Jan van Eyck, Dura and Rembrant. Dura was my favourite, he had an amazing diversity of skills with woodcuts, paint, oil paint, drawings and everything elso imaginable. His im…
Today we swept upon venice in a thoroughly excited mood for we were examining the renaissance! The renassance spannned from 1400-1600 and started in venice (the cause for our excitment). In th…
Today we were in florence looking at the art of Giotto. Our tour guid told us he was a revolutionary artist for his time, re-descovering things the Greeks discovered. He started life as a shep…
Today we took a look at Byzantine art, it was fascinating! I learnt that the Byzantine era went for 14 thousand years and that the thing that they were most famous for was their amazing glass …
Day 3:Rome
Today we looked in greater depth at the early christian art. i found it to be very symbolic and there were not very many pictures as such. we also went down inrto the catacombs whic…
