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A Voi Magazine | 2017
THE RENAISSANCE
Woman
Florence is home to a wide array of renowned and influential art pieces. From Michelangelo, to DaVinci, to Botticelli, Italy has fostered the growth of some of history’s most skilled and innovative artists. But wander through the museums and galleries, and you’ll begin to ask yourself one question: where are all the women artists?
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he millions who have visited the Galleria Borghese in Rome can speak to its impressive collection of Renaissance art. Housed in a building originally constructed as a personal museum to the Cardinal, it is a large and extensive collection of art from Renaissance masters.
Cardinal Scipione Borghese began his art collection in the 17th century. He built the Villa Borghese to store his vast array of masterpieces. Initially a private gallery shown to visitors and friends, the Villa is now a public museum showcasing the majority of the Borghese collection. Tourists, art lovers and historians alike come from far and wide to see masterpieces by Raphael, Caravaggio, Bernini and Titian.
by: Carrie George
painting depicts two views of love. On the left side there is an image of a woman dressed in modest white, fully clothed from head to toe. Her body is closed off and her face is angled toward the viewer, as if she is listening closely and attentively. On the right side there is another image of the same woman. In this image she is nearly naked draped in small swatches of cloth that do little to cover her body. Her arms are open, her body exposed. She turns her head away from the viewer, apathetic and distant to anyone but herself. In the center of the painting we see Cupid, signifying that this is a painting about love.
One interpretation suggests that the two images of the same woman represent the two different types of One of the famous pieces that caught love. The first type is respectful and my eye was “Sacred and Profane Love” dignified. It is about appearances by the Venetian painter Titian. The and good behavior. It is about