Artwork Analysis (Essay Sample)

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Overview
Artworks of different period of times are characterized with unique styles, themes, techniques and methodologies that influenced the artists of those times. In this analysis artworks of renaissance era and that of mannerism is compared and contrasted. The renaissance art was the paintings and decorative arts in European history with distinct style in about 1400 (Dempsey 25). These artworks was influence by the development of man and women renaissance in the 15th century, it underlies theology, science, architecture, literature and philosophy (Dee 6).
Artist Name:  Sandro Botticelli
Title: Primavera
Style period/ Movement: Renaissance period
Date Painted: 1482
Current location: Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Dimension: 203 cm (h) x 314 cm (w)
Image of Primavera
The mannerism art is also painting style that emerged during the later years of high renaissance in Florence and Rome in the period between 1510 and 1520.
Artist Name: Angelo Bronzimo (1503-1572)
Title: Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time (Allegory of the Triumph of Venus)
Style period: Mannerism Style of Art (c.1520-1600)
Location: National Gallery, London
Dimension146 × 116 cm (57.48 × 45.67 in)
Image of Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time (Allegory of the Triumph of Venus)
Analysis of Sandro Botticelli’s primavera artwork
This artwork is painted on wooden panel and it has been displayed since 1856 at the famous Uffizi gallery in Florence Italy (Dee 13). It is evident that this artwork has its composition, characters and features styles expressing themes and symbolic meanings that can be traced to Renaissance period. Botticelli artwork can be argued to be a non-religious painting attributed to it portraying polytheistic religious believes.
This can be linked to renaissance period because during this period the secular behaviours had become synonymous with Renaissance man. This painting also portrays humanistic ideologies; this is evident in the composition of this artwork that during this period the human ideologies surrounded divinity, adversity, fertility and sensuality. Primavera painting has Neo-Platonism which is associated with renaissance period which is based on beauty and love (Snow 40). This painting expresses visual and thematic of renaissance period. Colour pigments during this period was the finest for drawings including copper green cinnabar, ultramarine, red, carbon black, white, yellow lead and the most notable use of tempera grassa (Dempsey 36).
Artistic theme style during renaissance period mostly featured human meaning and Primavera has its themes surrounding Renaissance Humanism and Neo-Platonist ideologies. The objective observations on Botticelli Primavera artwork is the creation of mythological scenarios using historical accounts centred on the request of Medici family. It is also apparent that artistic work during renaissance period had little focus on religion thus Renaissance art took a new direction.
Analysis of Angelo Bronzimo’s venus, cupid, folly and time
This Bronzino’s masterpiece artwork is undeniably in its style, composition and subject matter is a mannerism art movement work. It has been designed as a puzzle based on the worlds of mythology, symbols and emblematic imagery. The painting key symbolic meaning provides the unchaste love, followed by pleasure, abetted by deceit and its underlying painful consequences (Bosch 33). This artwork is related to mannerism art movement attributed to the artist focusing on artificiality and artiness incorporating self-conscious elegance thoroughly using sophisticated indulgence in the bizarre that the artwork symbolizes. Bronzimo has refined the underlying concept of love, pain and magical love that can kill while pushing exaggerations and contrast. Mannerism tendencies are also evident in the artwork composition, the formless and indeterminate space in the nude pictures. It is related to mannerism art style as it catered for pan-European cultured class as this artwork was commission by King Francis of France (Healy 7).
This artwork as of mannerism art movement has utilized optical trickery of multiple images and visual stylistic influences. In addition it has unnatural colours, irrationally mixed classical motifs, grotesque pictorial fantasies and other visual references. The mannerism art thematic style in this artwork is evident antiquity such as Roman antiquity entailing elegance, grace and refinement. It also features classical references, mythological nature and interlacing of forms. Key observation is that this mannerism artwork by Bronzino is anti-renaissance and it has greater appeal. It is more artificial and less naturalistic characterized with emotionalism, perspective and garish colours hence the aspect of exaggerated idiom is clearly apparent (Harris 10).