“Sister Wendy’s Grand Tour”

Movie Notes:

Florence:

Uffizi Gallery (Renaissance [“rebirth”] Art)

-Botticelli, Sandro (1445-1510)

-Birth of Venus: clothed on land to partly hide beauty

-Allori, Cristifano (1577-1621)

-Judith and Holofernes [concept 1]

-shows men’s fear of beauty

-represented Judith as confident

-Gentileschi, Artemesia (1593-1653)

- Judith and Holofernes [concept 2]

-shows women’s view of beauty

-represented Judith as realistic and scared

Museum of St. Marco

-Fra Angelico aka Giovanni da Fiesole (1387-1455)

-famous for frescos

-originally no women were allowed to enter

-surrealism

-Functional: showed monks what was important, disregarding perspective

-Christ Mocked

Vienna:

Kunsthistorisches Museum

-Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)

-thought large

-Angelica and the Hermit

-Mantagna, Andrea (1431-1506)

- St. Sebastian (naked and tortured – juxtaposes vulnerability)

-Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588)

-Venus and Adonis

-Hercules and Deimeira

Rome:

Villa Borgese

-Berninni (famous for statues)

- carved detail and his students did preliminary work)

-Apollo and Daphne

-Daphne turned into a tree for protection from him, but he loved the tree and always wore the Laurel tree branch as a crown..

[All these works draw from religion, and include violence, death, sex, and love.

Art that speaks to an eternal theme are the true masterpieces;

Art is a mirror in which you should see yourself.]