World famous Paintings

 World famous Paintings

Next in our list are 2 paintings out of which one painting is very well known and other's artist is very well known. 

WORLD FAMOUS PAINTINGS 

1. Annunciation (detail), CA.1333

Simone Martini
Uffizi gallery, Florence

Author

Simone Martini (Siena 1284 ca. – Avignone 1344) e Lippo Memmi (Siena attested between 1317 and 1347)

Date

1333

Museum

The Uffizi

Technique

Tempera on wood, gold background

Size

184 x 168 cm

Inscriptions

SYMON MARTINI ET LIPPUS MEMMIS DE SENIS ME PINCXERUNT ANNO DOMINI MCCCXXXIII

This Annunciation shows that Archangel Gabriel entering the home of the Virgin Mary to inform her that she would soon hold the baby Christ, whose name means  " Christ " . Gabriel carries the Olive branch in his hand, the traditional sign of harmony, while pointing in the Holy ghost's dove with the different.This dove is descending from Eden, from the middle of mandorla of eight saints above, about to follow the innocent's good ear. As a matter of fact, along the way of that dove, audience find gabriel's utterence: Ave gratia plena dominvs tecvm ( ' ' Hail, full of prayer, this God  is with thee. ' ' ). The angel's mantle presents The detailed ' ' tartar fabric " shape and smooth glit feathers.

The signed and dated painting was completed for the altar of St. Ansanus in the transept of Siena cathedral, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. In the painting, the Archangel Gabriel appears to the Virgin Mary to tell her of the forthcoming birth of Jesus and greets her with the words shown on the raised inscription on the gold background: “AVE GRATIA PLENA DOMINUS TECUM”. The angel's appearance is sudden, as suggested by the fluttering cloak and spread wings. Mary is distressed, drawing back and wrapping herself in her cloak. The surrounding environment of the scene is not defined, but the few elements which are depicted - the marble floor, the elaborately engraved throne, the precious fabrics, the book that Mary was reading before the celestial apparition - can be traced back to the lifestyle of the wealthiest classes in the fourteenth century.

Above, in the center of the scene, the Holy Spirit is depicted in the form of a dove surrounded by angels, in line with the vase of lilies, a symbol of the Son of God and the purity of the Virgin Mary. The scrolls held by the prophets depicted in the tondos set into the frame allude to the mystery of the incarnation: from the left, Jeremiah, Ezechiel, Isiah and Daniel.
The depictions on either side of the Annunciation show the martyr Ansanus, one of the patron saints of Siena and bearing the banner with the city’s colors, and a holy martyr, possibly Maxima, the mother of Ansanus, or Margaret; the inscription at her feet, which identifies her as Judith, is incorrect.

However, the inscription indicating the two Sienese painters Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi as the altarpiece's creators is original, although art critics tend to attribute most of the conception and execution of this highly detailed painting to Simone, representing as it does one of the greatest masterpieces of fourteenth century painting in Europe. A friend of the poet Francesco Petrarch and commissioned by illustrious clients such as the House of Anjou and the Avignon Papacy, Simone shared a workshop with Lippo Memmi and the two became brothers-in-law when Simone married Memmi’s sister.

2.
The Persistence of Memory, 1931
Salvador Dali
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

The year before this picture was painted, Dalí formulated his “paranoiac-critical method,” cultivating self-induced psychotic hallucinations in order to create art. “The difference between a madman and me,” he said, “is that I am not mad.”

There are many elements in this painting, the use of time which is shown having no value here. An alien creature which has lost its physical form. All watches has stopped in the same time. Ants are eating up the metal of the watch depicting decaying of the matter.

All the time has stopped at Once, No Air is breezing, Water stands still, There is no living creature that Crawls on earth, No leaves grow over trees, Everything stands still at Once.
It is depicting the fifth dimension where time has no values, Nor does the matter have any form here. 

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

Salvador Dali

3.
The Creation of the Adam
(detail from the ceiling of the Sistine chapel), 1511
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Musei Vaticani , Rome

God has created the humans with apparently same physical form. God created Adam first and the Eve was created from his Ribs. This Painting is showing the active creation of a Male body (Adam) which is still impotent in the Garden of Edens where he was prohibited to eat from the tree of knowledge , and warned Adam of the dangers and consequences already present.