When at the Vatican Museum, there are quite a few paintings by Raphael. Quite a few rooms, actually...He is an impressive painter who is more well known as one of the teenage mutant turtles. However, seeing some of his paintings as we walked through the Vatican museum was really a cool experience. The Justice wall, which I discussed earlier in this blog is the piece in which I am going to be talking about on this fine evening in Venice. =]
As a lot of the paintings done at this time in Florence and Rome, Raphael used fresh plaster mixed with pigment as his form of art. As you walk into the room, the painting is at the far end of the room right next to the school of Athens. Even though the painting is very impressive, and the figures of the virtues are extremely beautiful and marvelous in person, the thing which I wanted to discuss is something else. As part of the law portion of the wall, there is an area in which Constantine is being depicted. In my earlier research I had found out that the painting was not finished, and as I looked at pictures, I wasn't really able to see this. However, when in front of the painting, it is extremely evident that it is not finished. The peoples don't have appropriate shadings and the chair in the bottom of the painting lack all form and shape.
As something that you read about, it is something that you can just jump over, which I definitely did in this case. Seeing it in person, however, and seeing many paintings in person really makes me have a greater appreciation for the artists and the amount of work they pour into the pieces.
I LOVE ITALY!!!!
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