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1485
EL NACIMIENTO DE VENUS
It was painted on a canva by the Italian renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli in 1485.
The main theme in the picture is the mythological birth of the Greek god Venus, who is naked in the middle of the picture. We can also observe three other figures: two women and one man.
The importance of this picture is the use of the colours, the representation of the canon of beauty and the intention of leaving behind religious themes.
The picture is in the art gallery Uffizi, Florencia. -
1503
LA GIOCONDA
This portrait was painted by Leonardo da Vinci.
La Gioconda is one of the most enigmatic paintings ever because there were many doubts about the identity of the girl who appeared. During many years, people have speculated about if she was the lover of Giuliano de Médicis or even Leonardo´s lover. Nowadays, experts think that she was the wife of an important commercial. The technique used was oil painting and because of a bad restoration, she lost her eyebrows.
It is in the Louvre museum, Paris. -
1509
LA ESCUELA DE ATENAS
The School of Athens” is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate the rooms now known as “The four Raphael Rooms” or “Stanze di Raffaello”, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. The School of Athens is one of a group of four main frescoes on the walls of “The Stanza della Segnatura”. This was the first of the rooms to be decorated, and The School of Athens, representing philosophy. -
1541
BÓVEDA DE LA CAPILLA SIXTINA
The vault of the Sistine Chapel in Rome is a set of fresco paintings made to decorate the vault of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City(Rome). It was painted between 1508 and 1512 by Michelangelo and is one of the most complex pictorial works in the entire history of art, commissioned by Pope Julius II to replace the painting that existed at that time .