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Italian & Northern Renaissance

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Sandro Botticello was one of the most influential humanist painters during the renaissance era. The background and history of Sandro Botticelli are still unknown. The painter was best known for his use of bright colors and lifelike characteristics and details in his work. It is often talked about amongst art historians that the paintings done by Sandro Botticello were commissioned for the Medici family but the truth to that is still unknown. We don't know much about Sandro Botticello, we know he was an influential painter and was connected to the Medici family. When he was younger and in his teenage years he was sought out by the Medici family, they offered him a space to create his artwork. It is a known fact they started his career and were able to help him become a well-known artist. I believe that his relationship with the Medici family allowed his career to be successful. He created many beautiful and popular pieces of artwork from the Italian Renaissance. The painting I chose

Art Aesthetic Appreciation & Analysis

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This week I was looking at different forms of visual art or architecture that I enjoy. The piece of art I chose to share with everyone is called  Eternal Springtime . This is a sculpture designed, created, and made by the famous artist Auguste Rodin. Eternal Spring is created with such detail and brings it to life. It brings two people together as they slowly disengage from the giant block of raw marble and consume each other.  Eternal Springtime is currently located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Rodin Museum. I found a few different articles with different dates for when it was modeled and marble sculpted. From my understanding, it was modeled sometime between 1880 and 1890. It was marble sculpted sometime during the early 1900s. The elements of art include shape, size, color, space, lines, and texture. This sculpture has all of the art elements I listed before sculpted into it. To start off with we have the size of the sculpture, it is 28x29x18 in dimensions and weighs 433 lbs

1st blog post ;)

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Hello,  My name is Adeline Knavel and I am 20 years old and currently studying Elementary Education at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. I am in my second year of working towards completing my bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education. I grew up in the military so I am from a few different places. I was born in Buffalo, New York, and only lived there until I was 4 years old. After I turned 4 my dad had joined the Army and we moved to Anchorage, Alaska. We lived there for roughly 4 years and then we moved to a new duty station. We then moved to Fort Drum, New York, and shortly after living there, we moved to Fort Carson, Colorado. We moved back to Anchorage, Alaska in the summer of 2013 and only lived there for roughly a year and then moved to Fairbanks and I have been here ever since. I graduated from high school in May of 2019 from Raven Homeschool. During that time I would participate in Alaska Military Youth of the Year and Army Teen Panel. Alaska Military Youth of the Year was a