Poll!

[Hayabusa Rider]

Who is "best" in this group?

 

[clamum]

Don't know who or what they are

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: clamum
Don't know who or what they are

Most don't but if you Google, you will learn. Then sit back and look at what you see.

 

[dragonballgtz]

I'm too lazy to google. Just tell us damn it

 

[iamme]

i don't have enough knowledge on this subject matter to competently vote (yes, i googled ).

 

[mobobuff]

I voted for tit.

 

[nakedfrog]

YOUR FACE

 

[Pliablemoose]

Tintoretto

 

[moshquerade]

OP, do you have any of their paintings? :evil:

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

Mmmm, Italian masters?

OK since the OP might be able to help, I snapped this photo off a fresco in the Louvre. Any idea which one it is?

 

[jjones]

None, of all the Italian masters I prefer Lamborghini.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: ming2020
Mmmm, Italian masters?

OK since the OP might be able to help, I snapped this photo off a fresco in the Louvre. Any idea which one it is?

Can't place it. Hmm, have to do some research

 

[Moonbeam]

I know that Durer preferred Bellini over Titian [yet Titian's influence on later artists was profound (He was supreme in every branch of painting and revolutionized the oil technique with his free and expressive brushwork)]or Giorgion and that his 7 greatest paintings were destroyed in a fire in 1577 so we don't have his best to compare. Bellini painted the surface roughly so as to catch the light and give a metallic finish - a revolutionary technique at the time."

Giotto has become the symbol of a profound renewal in the history of Western figurative arts, and of the first radical renewal since ancient Greece.
"He converted the art of painting from Greek to Latin and brought in the modern era" according to Cennini's synthesis fifty years after Giotto's death. And don't forget that the decoration of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua (between 1303-1305) has been universally recognized as the most significant and most paradigmatic creation of Giotto and one of the capital events in the history of the European painting.

Tintoretto may have studied under Titian and the artist who most fruitfully absorbed the visionary energy and intensity of his work was El Greco. Henry James wrote of the stupendous Crucifixion: `Surely no single picture in the world contains more of human life: there is everything in it, including the most exquisite beauty.' but he lived and painted almost exclusively in Venice.


So it's kind of hard to say which was best except as an opinion. Maybe Bellini. Thanks for the opportunity to get that off my chest. This has plagued me for quite some time.

 

[Cristatus]

Originally posted by: jjones
None, of all the Italian masters I prefer Lamborghini.

i second that motion!

 

[Moonbeam]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
Tintoretto

Pliable, I prefer The Woman Who Discovers the Bosom

Edit: Be sure to bring it up to full size. The thumbnail is too small to appreciate, I think.

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith

Originally posted by: ming2020
Mmmm, Italian masters?

OK since the OP might be able to help, I snapped this photo off a fresco in the Louvre. Any idea which one it is?

Can't place it. Hmm, have to do some research

Heh... I managed to google out the answer:

http://www.theartgallery.com.a...sts/Botticelli/ywoman/



Cheers!