Monthly Archives: December 2015

During the Renaissance similar to Medieval times, portraiture played an important role in facilitating the brokerage of potential marriage candidates to forge alliances between powerful families. “Portraits not only marked and celebrated engagement or nuptials, but they also helped make them possible.”1 For … Continue reading →

For our ART515  final assignment, a component of the assignment is to do two portrait paintings of two characters drawn from random in an Italian and Northern Renaissance style.  For the Italian Renaissance character, I had drawn a barber/surgeon. My … Continue reading →