First Blogging Assignment

 Baroque Blog Assignment by Jasper Carpenter The work I chose for this assignment is the "The Flagellation of Christ," which is an oil-on-canvas painting created by the Italian Baroque painter known mononymously as Caravaggio in 1607.  The Oxford Dictionary of English explains the term "flagellation" is used to describe a "flogging or beating, either in a religious discipline or for sexual gratification." Here, it depicts the brutal flogging of Jesus Christ before he was crucified. To give you a better understanding, the scene shows Jesus surrounded by what looks to be three people: two men standing upright on either side of him, and a third bending down to pick up something from the ground. These men are likely soldiers under Pontious Pilate as their faces don't seem upset about having to flog Jesus. Caravaggio.org describes these men as "torturers," which is a good description for them.  Jesus, while portrayed with a muscular, taut body, is...

  Italian and Northern Renaissance Blog Assignment by Jasper Carpenter.           The Sistine Chapel forms part of the Vatican in Italy and was named after Pope Sixtus IV. The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is particularly famous for the incredible paintings by Renaissance artist Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarotti Simoni, known simply by the mononym Michelangelo . He was born in Caprese, a village in the Republic of Florence on March 6, 1475, and became a painter, sculptor, poet and architect during his lifetime. The paintings - also known as frescoes - on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel are some of his best-known works, composed of nine scenes from the Book of Genesis, including one called The Creation of Adam (Creazione di Adamo). Frescoes are a particular artistic technique used in mural paintings that are executed wet lime plaster. Water is combined with dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, eventually becoming part of the wall as it drie...