The Masterpieces

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The Masterpieces

• Masters
• of the Painting
• II

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• The Courtyard of a House
• in Delft

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• The Virgin
• and Child with
• Saint Anne

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• A Grotesque
• Old Woman

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• The Gare
• St-Lazare

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• Summers Day

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• Fruits
• and Flowers
• in a Terracotta
• Vase

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• A Girl with
• a Kitten

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• Fruits Dish,
• Bottle
• and Violin

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• The Baptism
• of Christ

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• Belshazzars
• Feast

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about The Artists

• Masters
• of the Painting
• II

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• Pieter de Hooch
• painted
• The Courtyard of a House in Delft
• In 1658

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• Pieter de Hooch was a painter of portraits and
  small, detailed scenes of everyday life.
• His pictures usually show women and children
  enjoying simple pastimes or carrying out task
  around the home.
• De Hoochs painting reflect the artists belief
  that children should be brought up with care, in
  a quiet, tidy surroundings.

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• Leonardo da Vinci
• painted
• The Virgin and Child
• with saint Anne
• between 1499 -1500

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• With an endless curiosity and a hunger for
  knowledge, Leonardo da Vinci was certainly one of
  the greatest geniuses the world has never seen.
• He was so keen to understand the human body that
  he dissected corpses in order to study and draw
  anatomy.
• Although he made thousands of notes and drawings
  in his studies of the natural world, only fifteen
  of his paintings survive today, The most famous
  of which is the Mona Lisa

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• Quinten Massys
• painted
• A Grotesque Old Woman
• in 1525

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• Massys painted portraits and religious
  altarpieces and was regarded as the leading
  painter in Antwerp.
• His early work was influenced by the refined,
  realistic style of van Eyck.
• However, after making a trip to Italy, his later
  works show that he was almost certainly familiar
  with drawings of grotesque figures by Leonardo da
  Vince.

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• Claude-Oscar Monet
• painted
• The Gare
• St-Lazare
• in 1877

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• Monet was one of a group of painters known as the
  Impressionists that worked in France in the
  second half of the nineteenth century.
• Although exceptionally popular now, the work of
  these painters puzzled the public and critics
  when first seen.

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• Berthe Marisot
• painted
• Summers Day
• in 1879

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• Morisot was born is Bourges, in central France,
  but moved to Paris with her family when she was
  eleven.
• One of the very few female artist of
  international fame, Morisot is best known for her
  scenes of modern life.
• She worked oils, pastels, and watercolors,
  showing landscapes and everyday scene

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• Jan Van Os
• painted
• Fruit and Flowers in
• a Terracotta Vase
• between 1777-1778

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• Jan van Os was the head of the family of artist
  who specialized in still lifes of fruit and
  flowers.
• For paint his flower and fruits van Os would
  have to wait for each one to come into season
  before he could capture it accurately in paint

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• Jean-Baptiste Perronneau
• painted
• A Girl with a Kitten
• in 1745

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• The use of pastel as a medium in panting became
  fashionable in 18th-century France after the
  visit of the artist Rosalba Carriera to Paris in
  1720, She was one of the first in work pastel.
• Perronneau had studied engraving but was clearly
  influence by Carrieras work and became
  well-known in France for his pastel portraits.
• With pastel he was able to use colour to show
  light and shade in a subtle way.

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• Pablo Picasso
• painted
• Fruit Dish, Bottle and Violin
• in 1914

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• Born in Spain, Picasso was the son of an art
  teacher named Jose Blasco.He become one of the
  greatest artist of the 20th century.
• As young man Picasso painted scenes of circuses
  and city life. Although these were realistic
  paintings, Picasso found the people and places
  around him made him feel sad and lonely, so he
  painted many of them using only different shades
  of the color blue, This time in his life is known
  as his Blue Period.
• As the years passed, Picasso experimented with
  new styles of painting and sculpture, and became
  fascinated by African art, he also worked with
  another painter , Georges Braque, and together
  they develop a new form of art called Cubism.

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• Piero Della Francesca
• painted
• The Babtism
• of Christ
• in 1450

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• Although many people admire his work now, Piero
  della Francesca was no famous in his lifetime.
• This may have been because, unlike other
  Renaissance painters, Piero did not live in
  Florence, the center of the new art in Italy,
  Instead, he chose to stay in his home town of
  Borgo Sansepolcro for most of his life.
• Piero, like most artist of the period, painted
  religious subjects, and liked to use pale, flat
  colors to give his work a sense of calm and
  balance
• He was very interested in geometry and
  perspective, and his paintings are carefully
  composed.

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• Rembrandt van Rijn
• painted
• Belshazzars Feast
• Between 1636-1638

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• Rembrandt was an original, adventurous painter,
  he had an amazing knack of capturing the
  personalities of the people he painted, showing
  what they were feeling and thinking, as well as
  what they looked like.

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about The Paintings

• Masters
• of the Painting
• II

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• The perspective of the picture is carefully
  thought out and is designed to lead the eye
  through the passageway, to the delicately lit
  background in the street beyond.
• The picture has a number of clear lines, with
  strong horizontals and verticals, These give the
  painting structure and balance, reflecting the
  well ordered lives of the people depicted in it.
• The use of soft, muted tones, and a small range
  of colors, mainly oranges and browns, also helps
  to create an atmosphere of harmony.

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• The cartoon shows the Virgin Mary seated on the
  knee of her mother, St Anne, while holding the
  Christ Child, who is blessing Saint John the
  Baptist.
• The figures are intertwined both physically and
  emotionally, and there is a great sense of
  tenderness about the group.
• Leonardo was a master at using light and shade to
  give his paintings and drawings relief .
• The Details in the darkness shadows and brightest
  highlights gives faces a mysterious radiance and
  almost makes it seen possible to reach out and
  touch the clothes.

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• This was probably not a portrait of a real woman,
  but was designed to criticize older woman who do
  not accept their age and try to appear younger.
• Because she has not faces the truth of her age,
  Massys deliberately makes his subject look
  grotesque and foolish.
• Massys also did several portraits of old men in
  this style, which may have been inspired by the
  great humanist Erasmus,

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• Painted on the spot, The Gare St-Lazare is like a
  snapshot or an impression of a moment in time.
• Monet worked quickly, using loose strokes of
  colour, with no outlines or solid forms.
• His aim was to capture the light and atmosphere
  of the railway station rather that its tiny
  details. As a result, it is a easy to feel as
  though you are standing in the station with the
  other passengers as the huge, noisy train draws
  into the platform, surrounded by billowing clouds
  of steam.

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• Berthe Morisot knew the Impressionists and
  Summers Day was show in their fifth exhibition
  in 1880, under the title of The Lake in the Bois
  de Boulogne.
• It is a peaceful, still scene which shows two
  middle class, city ladies relaxing in the rowing
  boat.
• The late is set in a fashionable park to the west
  of Paris, where people would go to picnic and
  walk in the gardens.

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• Although is it still life, Fruits and Flowers in
  a Terracotta vase is overflowing with movement
  and energy, and this tower of fruits and flowers
  seems to be about to topple over.
• The details are so fine that we feel we could
  reach out and feel the dewy petals or the pin
  sharp thorns
• It comes as a surprise to learn, then, that this
  is an extremely artificial composition. A clue to
  this lies in the bottom left-hand corner, which
  tell us that the painting took over a year to
  complete.

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• No ones know who is the girl in this painting is,
  We can guess that her family was prosperous and
  held a good position in society.
• Although she is a child, she seems to be dressed
  in adult's clothes, and , like all fashionable
  people at the time, has powdered hair.
• This is because, in the 18th century, children
  were treated like adults from young age. At about
  eight years old, for example, they were expected
  to give up story book in favour of adult
  literature.

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• Like many Cubist paintings, Fruit Dish, Bottle
  and Violin is difficult to understand at first.
• The objects are not realistic and the picture
  looks muddled, But this is because rather than
  simply copying what he saw with his eyes, Picasso
  used his imagination and tried to show the world
  from many different points of view.

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• The Baptism of Christ is a scene from the New
  testament of the Bible and shows Jesus being
  baptized by John the Baptist.
• A dove, the symbol of the Holy Spirit, hovers
  overhead while, to the left, three angels stand
  holding Christs clothes. To the right of St
  John, a man preparing to be baptized gets
  undressed, and behind him are four priest.
• This story is described in the Bible as taking
  place beside the River Jordan, but the landscape
  of Pieros painting looks more like scenery
  around Borgo Sansepolcro that the Middle East.

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• Belshzzars Feast catches a dramatic moment in
  the Biblical story of Belshazzar, the king of
  Babylon, Belshazzar is holding a grand feats and
  is serving wine in vessels stolen form the temple
  of Jerusalem.
• A hand appears from the shadow and writes a
  message of doom on the wall which warn the king
  that he will be die because he has sinned against
  God.
• Sure enough, that night Belshazzar dies,
  Rembrandt has cleverly left much of the room in
  darkness, highlighting the faces of the horrified
  spectators, This adds to the suspense, creating
  an atmosphere of fear and dread.