Thursday, February 7, 2013

Paintings

Choose one of the paintings below that you like the most and do the questions at the bottom.



Pendant Icon, 17th–18th century
Ethiopia; Amharic
Wood, tempera paint
 


The Coronation of the Virgin, after 1595
Annibale Carracci (Italian, Bolognese, 1560–1609)
Oil on canvas


Krishna Holds Up Mount Govardhan to Shelter the Villagers of Braj: Folio from the Harivamsa (Legend of Hari [Krishna]), Mughal period (1526–1858), ca. 1590–95
Present-day Pakistan, probably Lahore
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
 
  

Woman with a Pink, early 1660s
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, 1606–1669)
Oil on canvas


Copy and paste these questions into the comments right below the questions:
1. Title of the painting:
2. Artists:
3. Paint Medium:
4. Name one strong feeling you have when viewing this painting: 
5. 8 sentence paragraph describing what you think is going on in the painting you chose: