Renaissance Project Essay

Lady Sibyl, a oil paint created between 1510 and 1520, is the portrait of a young lady whose name is Sibyl, and is believed to be the wife of the governor. According to the way she is dressing and her hairstyle, she is believed to be form a noble family with a high status; further more, this is one on the painting form a whole set of oil paints featuring women who had the money to hire, Francesco d'Ubertino Verdi,  the artist to paint portraits of them, which confirms her status as a rich wife, possibly wife of the governor. 

Francesco d'Ubertino Verdi, the artist who created this oil paint was a  Italian painter of the Renaissance whose work is characteristic of the Florentine Mannerist style. ( Mannerism is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, lasting until about 1580 in Italy,Mannerism associated  with artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and early Michelangelo. Where High Renaissance art emphasizes proportion, balance, and ideal beauty, Mannerist style often exaggerates such qualities, cause  compositions that are asymmetrical or unnaturally elegant, which is noticeable in the painting.)

Bacchiacca belonged to a family of at least five, and possibly as many as eight artists. His father Ubertino di Bartolomeo was a goldsmith, his older brother Bartolomeo d'Ubertino Verdi, was a painter, and his younger brother Antonio d'Ubertino Verdi—who also called himself Bachiacca—was both an embroiderer and painter. Thou not famous, the family definitely has some artistic blood flowing in their veins, which definitely contributed to Bacchiacca achievements.
    Bachiacca apprenticed in Perugino's Florentine studio in his teenage, and by 1515 began to collaborate with Andrea del Sarto, Jacopo Pontormo and Francesco Granacci on the decoration of cassone (chest), spalliera (wainscot), and other painted furnishings for the bedroom of Pierfrancesco Borgherini. While he established a reputation as a painter of predellas and small cabinet pictures, he eventually expanded his output to include large altarpieces, such as the painting of lady sibyl.

 Renaissance is a period of time considered the cultural bridge between 14 and 17th century that connects the middle ages and modern history. The the core of Renaissance was its own invented version of humanism,which adopted feature from both Roman Humanitas and the classical Greek philosophy, a quote that would be the perfect  representation to these two philosophies would be "Man is the measure of all things." The society adapted ancient Rome and Greek ideology in many fields, including painting, suptureing, designing of architecture and philosophy.
    The origins of Renaissance art can be traced to Italy in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. During this so-called “proto-Renaissance” period , Italian scholars and artists saw themselves as reawakening to the ideals and achievements of classical Roman culture. They looked back to ancient Greece and Rome and sought to revive the languages, values and intellectual traditions. 

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