In the renaissance it was very common to see sculptures related to the greek mythology. In this case,  the sculpture is dedicated to show the power of the Medici in the city of Florence. The work represented the triumph of the good works (from the government of the Medici) against the devil (their opponents)

The sculpture represents harmony and balance. We can also appreciate the anatomy’s precision, because it is very well distributed. This was a renaissance tendency that differed from the Middle Ages sculpture, which was less proportionate in terms of human anatomy, mainly due to the classical influence.

It was made out of bronze, a material that was used a lot in the renassaince’s sculptures, a material which Benvenuto Cellini liked to work with. 

Angeles Carrasco

Is a reinassence sculpture, located in Italy, dedicated to the ex Captain General of the Republic of Venice. This types of sculptures, honnored to an important leader, are called Condotierro because the people represented put themselves in the services of a city or lord and attributed important things to the history of a city…

The author of the sculpture faced some problems, as pretending that the horse was moving with a raised leg because this could cause stability problems,but he was the first one to solve this problem.

The sculpture was made in bronze,a material used a lot in that times. We can appreciate the movement represented in the statue and the facial expression of Conlleoni that shows anger and reflects the problems and crisis the cities were suffering, after the french invassion, which you can also sense in the muscles of the horse and the neck of the rider since they are both very tense.The point of view of Conlleoni is represented turning his torso to the right contrasting his legs that are facing forward and his head facing left.
Aya Aztout

This work is built up of marble and it had been used the typical style used in the Renaissance.

The idea that Miguel Ángel Buonarroti wanted to transmit of Giuliano de Medici was an idea of active life.

As most sculptures from the Renaissance were idealized, in this work Miguel Ángel gave Giuliano de Medici a more muscular body, with a more expressive face, although he did not look like that in reality.

Above Giuliano's sarcophagus we can find two sculptures that represent the Day and the Night, they are known as the personification of two of the four phases of time and transmit the idea that everyone will die someday.

Maria Milenova

This floor is part of the Basilica of San Pedro that is the universal headquarter of the Church and the house of the Pope. The central floor has the form of a Latin Cross and the part of this floor that i`m talking about has circular form. It represents the perfection of God. This piece of art has at the roof a dome and Corinthian columns like at the Plaza San Pedro. It is made with materials like stone, marble and stucco.
Nowadays it is located in Rome- Italy.
In conclusion, this floor is a very beautiful and historic building that keeps being important nowadays.
The thing that fascinates me is the very complex architecture and I admire the artists that build this with less materials than nowadays.
Marco Barahona.

Is a painting was created between 1501 and 1504 ,its style is of renaissance. In a beginning the artist was  Pinturicchio but finally was descovered that the real artist was Perugino.

The work was commissioned by a powerful Florentine family of German origin, the Albizzini, and its destination was a small chapel in the Church of San Francisco de Castello.

This large format work (1'74m x 1'21m) was made in oil and tempera on board

The betrothal of the Virgin remained in the Albizzini chapel until the Napoleonic invasion. A well-known dealer bought it from the Napoleonic army officer to donate it to the Milan hospital. Today the painting is exhibited at the Brera Pinacoteca in Milan.

CHARACTERISTICS:

the most important thing is the drawing since the colors are very dark.

In the work there are two zones: in the first there is a group of people watching as they put the ring on the Virgin Mary. In the second area there is a very large construction

Is a realistic painting.

the work has a sense of depth because of the floor tiles, because of other smaller characters that appear in the background... 

By Nacho Lorenzo

Venus and Mars was painted in the year 1483, in full swing and creation of the Renaissance. By the Italian painter Sandro Botticelli. Painter, born in Florence, Italy. This illustrious painter died on May 17, 1510 in Florence. Currently located at the National Gallery, London. It has a renaissance style. Also this work is believed to have been dedicated to the Italian Vespucci family, because to the right of it you can see some wasps, which were the coat of arms of this Italian family. And it has characteristics of 69cm x 1.73m, and was painted with tempera paint. In the 15th and 16th century it was very common for artists, be they sculptors or painters, to make works related to Greek mythology. With the Greek gods or with mythological heroes such as Perseus or Hercules. Two of the most important Greek gods, Venus (Aphrodite) and Mars (Ares), are represented in this work. You can see the goddess Venus relaxed, next to the god Mars much more relaxed than her. You can also see some satyrs, which were male creatures with a human half and a hairy and grotesque half that appeared wandering through the forests in Greek mythology, bothering Mars, grabbing his weapons, his armor and there is even one of these that is touching a kind of shell in his ear, but he is too relaxed to give importance to that. The myth represented by this work is that of the love affair between Venus and Mars. It is about how Venus was forced to marry the god Vulcan (Hephaestus) and while she was married to Vulcan she had a secret affair with Mars. This work makes you first look at Venus, which is relaxed. Then you look at the satyrs with the spear, who take you to Mars. And at the end of the tour you look at the last satyr under Mars which takes you out of the painting. This work isn´t a realistic painting.
But in conclusion, i think this work represents not only marriage, it also represents how love can overcome or defeat hate or war. 
Nicolás Rolla

It was firtly exibited at Casa Marcello in Venetia. Now it is exhibited in  Gemaldegalerie Atle Meister of Dresde, in Germany.
This drawing is made by brushstrokes, because for Giorgione, the color was more important than the drawing. The color technique, give volume and depth to the paint.
In this artwork, the point of view is the same than the painter, near the women, seeing all the landscape. The perspective, make that Venus is clearly seen, and make a contrast with the scenary. With this perspective, Georgine gives depht to the painting. Respect to the light, it comes from the right, and it hits all the body of Venus, wich resalt it's beauty and it's white skin, wich is one of he beauty ideals of the renaissance. Her clothes, that are laid out in the floor, indicates that is in the Greek or Roman time.
Respect how the look runs in this painting is: fist you look to the face, secondly, to her underarm because she is looking to it, then it follow all the body and finally the landscape because her position accomapnies the landscape that serves as background. The landscape is very well painted. Venus and the background are unified. Her position, is well thinked, because, her right arm, show her underarm, wich is sign of the femenine sex, while the left hand is on her pubic region. Also the curves of the landscape enforce the women ones.
In this composition, Venus have a distanced look, wich is for no to made that the spectator feel incommoded, and is a simbol of submission. A excepcion, is that the picture was painted with cool colours, wich wasn't the normal in this theme. Her position is a little rigid.
Painting a naked women in the nature, is considered the start point in the modern art.
In my opinion, Giorgione was an important painter, but the lack of kwnoledge, have led that he haven't the recognition that he should have, and respect to the artwork, I think is very well achieved, and the position, the light and the landscape make all perfect.
Made by Carlos Armero

It is a  sculpture made in 1491 by Miguel Ángel who was an Italian painter,architect and sculptor  of the renaissance period .

He uses marble to create the sculpture .

Nowadays it is located in Italy in the Casa Buonarroti.

The characteristics of the sculpture  consists on a relief technique used to give a tridimensional effect on the sculpture. 

This relief consists on the virgin sitting down feeding her child.

The left stair of the relief represents the stairs in which Jesus came from the sky to the earth and also when mortals go to the sky  and because of this ,this sculpture is idealistic ,also the five stairs represents the five leters of Marías name.

In conclusion I think that this sculpture has a lot of work behind and now a days we don't appreciate art like in the middle ages .
Marcos Núñez

He sculpted David of Andrea del Verrocchio, which is a bronze statue, which was probably constructed between the years 1473 and 1475.

The statue represents the youthful David, future king of israeli people, in a victorious pose with Goliath’s head next to his feet. He has a hand placed over his waist, in the other one, he is holding a sword and it presents his legs arched. It doesn’t show any kind of movement, but instead we can appreciate that not in the actual face, but by his position, we can deduce he is trying to show some kind of victorious expression.

This statue was installed initially in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence in 1476, but now, it is actually located at Bargello Museum in Florence.

It was an order from the Medici family, which also commissioned the project.

It’s an aisle work sculpture.

Verrocchio mastered the techniques of marble carving and bronze casting. Marble offered an ideal medium for tombs and portrait busts, while cast bronze proved exceptionally strong and durable, permitting the artist to conceive dramatic figures of impressive size and freedom of movement. This sculpture uses the bronze casting technique.

It would be an idealistic figure for godless people, but for religious Christian people, it could be a realism sculpture, if we took into account that Goliath’s death against David was an actual event for Christians.

This figure could be seen from different points of view, because of its 3D construction.

 In conclusion I consider this piece of art to be a very exceptional work from Verrocchio, symbolizing the power of David's victory over Goliath.

Sergio Martínez

The painting was probably in Mantegna's workshop for about 30 years, which led to the belief that no one commissioned him so he painted it on his own. 
Now, it is located in the Pinacoteca di Brera, in Milan.

It is painted with tempera, a technique in which the pigment solvent is water.

In this painting, the dead Christ appears resting on the marble. He is accompanied on his left by la Virgen María, San Juan Evangelista and María Magdalena, who cry his death. The faces of these three figures show a slight disproportion compared to their small hands, a detail that suggests the possibility that this was a later addition by the author.

In this case, the drawing is more important than the colors because the main thing in this painting is the body of Christ.

Mantegna painted an intense contrast of light and shadow transmitting enormous suffering in the painting.

Later, Christ is represented from the feet, with a direct point of view in an almost perpendicular way breaking with the perspective used by artists so far.

Finally, it highlights the anatomy of his body. 
Also, the holes in Christ's hands and feets which are represented without idealism or rhetoric and the sheet covering the corpse. The sheet is painted in the same tones as the body which contributes to the overwhelming effect.

So we can say that Cristo yacente by Mantegna is a realistic painting.

In conclusion, I think is a different painting than the ones I have seen because of its perspective and also I have liked to learn about how to do an analysis of a painting.

- Sofia Lopez

This fresco was sponsored by Felipe Brancacci with the building of the Brancacci Chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine, in Florence

The figures in the painting are deformed, they try to be realistic but are disproportioned as we can see for example in the arms of Adan

They had no clothes, that it was not common in that times, this is because Masaccio wanted a natural representation of the human bodies.

In the iconography we can see three people; Adan, Eva and an angel. We see Adan and Eva crying, as they have been expelled from the Eden because of the Original Sin, this is basically the main part of the painting. Above them, there is the angel that will expell them from the Eden. We can also see an arch, this arch is the entrance of the Garden of Delights, from where they are being expelled.

In conclusion, this painting represents the Original Sin and the consequences of it, with the desesperation of Adan and Eva as they are being expelled from the Garden of Delights.

In my opinion, this painting expresses very well the point of it, the saddness.

The creation is divided in two stages. In the left side is represented the fall of the original sin, where Adam and Eva are expelled from paradise. In this side there are some important details, for example, we can see that Eva has just received an apple while Adam is also taking one. This symbolizes the banned fruit and the temptation of the forbidden. There is a snake offering the fruit, which in fact is a woman whose rings (orange, green and pink) means the natural attractive. It also represents Satanas, half woman, half snake.

In the right side is represented the expulsion. In the real story, they were represented with a feeling of embarrassment as they were expelled naked, so they tried to cover their bodies with fig leaves. However, the artist omitted this detail and painted their bodies naked and deformed to show their sadness. I also found interesting the fact that Eva is represented in muscular shape different and distorted from a woman’s figure.

In conclusion, I think it is an interesting creation as there are captured many stories and hidden meanings inside. This painting was so hard to made, as it was painted in the sealing, which is 20 meters high.

Blanca Prieto

It was painted by Sandro Botticelli, the exact date it was painted is unknown, but it is believed to be around 1485.

Botticelli was an Italian Renaissance painter who was one of the first artists of this time that represented humanistic themes, such as scenes from classical mythology.

This painting was commissioned by the Medici to adorn Villa di Castello

 Nowadays this piece of art is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.

It represents the moment in which Venus, goddess of love and fertilization, arrives in the world, on a shell, floating on the sea. This representation is the feminine beauty.

According to the legend, Venus was born from the genitals of the god Uranus, cut by his son Saturn and then thrown into the sea which fertilized it and created the existence of Venus with the help of the waves is transported to the shores of Cyprus in a shell .

Venus is in the center of the painting, on the left are Cefiro god of the wind and Cloris goddess of flowers and on the right is the spring.

Botticelli wanted to capture the warmth of the colors to represent beauty.

The techniques that botticelli used were the materials,  such as alabaster powder to give shine to the colors and Pintura al Temple was also used, this is the dilution of paint with water and then is it used .

These are some of the characteristics that make this painting unique.

In this work, Botticelli moved away from the realistic description to prioritize the allegorical sense of the work.

In this way he made the perspective and distorted forms, especially the stylization of figures. Nature is converted into a decorative way with more beauty than real nature.

Lara Robbiati

The tender and delicate beauty of Simonetta Vespucci caused a stir in Florence, the city that was abuzz with renewed thought and art.Sandro Botticelli worked for the Médici family, who commissioned the works that are currently among the most relevant in the entire history of art. The Primavera was commissioned by Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici as a gift for his girlfriend. La Primavera is one of the most beautiful works of the Florentine artist and of the Italian Renaissance. In the painting we can see this characters: Mercurio, Cupido, Flora, Venus, Cloris and Céfiro.
Mario Alcolea.

 It is currently exhibited in the Prado Museum in Madrid.

This portrait commemorates the victory of CarlosV  against the Schmalkaldic League who opposed his imperial authority and defended Lutheranism.

It also shows the emperor riding a horse in front of  the Elbe river, and behind him a big forest in dark tones, and the portrait is very detailed as you can see in the armor and horse.

 It also can be appreciated how clean it is and that there are no blurs in the painting. Carlos’s face is shown as inexpressive and kind of calmed.

Also the patron was Carlos.