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I read the article " The 2014 Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture:"Certain of Death": Michelangelo's late life and art", written by William E. Wallace. In his article, Wallace discussed Michelangelo Burnarroti 's final 18 years from age 71 to age 89. This is the least familiar part of Michelangelo's life. In our textbook, chapter 13, did not discuss too much Michangelo's later years. In the textbook, it was more about Michelangelo's earlier achievement such as the painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the Medici Chapel, The New Saint Peter's plan. The later period artwork that was discussed in the textbook was the last judgement. However, In the article of " the 2014 Josephine waters Bennett Lecture:"certain of Death": Michelangel's late life and art." the author was mainly focus on michangelo's later year artworks and his changing style. Wallace made a great point by saying: "His late life was concerned...

On 9/23/2020 3:30pm, there was a virtual event hosted by  Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art series. I was lucky to find the recorded lecture on youtube, and listened the lecture taught by a noted critic Aruna D'Souza. The lecture was  about modern and contemporary art, intersectional feminisms, and how museums shape our views of each other and our world. In the lecture, D'Souza talked about the concepts that interrelated to empathy translation and visibility, to understand political transformation. First, she talked about a book named  sea of poppies , written by  amitav ghosh in 2008, as an example of proving her point that empathy is a base for understanding. Secondly, she mentioned an interview of  kameelah janan rasheed , D'Souza said: Resheed was cautioned about what is lost as historically white museum and other institutions try to make visible what they have been guilty of making invisible for so much of their histories. (D'Souza 20:40-...

Hello everyone, in this week's blog I am going to talk about Renaissance. In my textbook Culture and Values A Survey of the Humanities chapter 12 , the main ideas was to discuss the history of Renaissance Art from early 14th century to the city of Florence in the 15th century. It focused on Medici family and their patronage artists. Per my textbook, Michangelo's talent and some of the influences he absorbed in Florence under the Medici (Cunningham 285). In the video, the main idea was to discuss the Arts in the Republic of Florence from Dante to Michangelo. Per the narrator, civilized human life depends on not only on modanatty, but on healthy simulation of the past. (Art of the western world, 24:04-24:09)                                                        Michangelo, Pieta, 1498-1499, marble  In Botticelli's La Primavera c. 1478, I have l...

Hello readers, hope you had a fantastic week! We all heard about the word: Renaissance. Renaissance means rebirth in French (Part 1:1.6). But some of you might ask: what was the Renaissance a rebirth of? Today we are going to dig into this question and discuss how Ancient Greece influenced on Renaissance. Like Donatello, Dante, and Botticelli, I was intrigued by Ancient Greece’s mythology stories. Ancient Greek believed polytheism . Inside the Parthenon , 12 gods and goddess habitat in it. This is different than the Christianity which believed that there is only one God. I like Greek myth because Greek gods and goddesses are natural. Per Madeline Miller:  You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to see (Miller 14). They have emotions and struggles. They make mistakes and regrets; They have love stories and unethical affairs; they have ruthless fights. In Greek myth,Gods are not perfect....