ARTS CODEX

Date: 1533 Artist: Young Hans Holbein Art Movement/Period: Northern Renaissance Exhibited at: The National Gallery, London #Ambassadors Hans Holbein's The Ambassadors: Power, Faith, and Mortality in 16th-Century Europe Considered one of the most accomplished portrait painters of the sixteenth century, this magnificent portrait by Hans Holbein appears at first glance to depict two wealthy, educated, and powerful young men. Exhibited at the National Gallery in London, this

Date: 1793 Artist:  Jacques-Louis David Art Movement/Period:  Neoclassicism Exhibited Location: The Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium #TheDeathofMarat The Revolution's Most Dramatic Moment: An Assassination Turned into a Painting The Death of Marat is an 1793 work by the French artist Jacques-Louis David . It is an oil painting depicting the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat , a journalist and radical activist of the French Revolution, by Charlotte Corday , a supporter of

Date: c. 1480 Artist: Sandro Botticelli Art Movement/Period: Renaissance Exhibited Place: Uffizi Gallery Botticelli's Primavera: An Enigmatic Masterpiece One of the artist's greatest works , Primavera ( Spring) , with its enigmatic arrangement of mythological figures, is among the most studied Renaissance paintings worldwide. The painting depicts figures from classical mythology gathered in a garden. These figures are an allegory of spring and the blossoming of love .