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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
yet she is quietly alluring 🙂 Them renaissance Italian masters liked their chicks a little more meaty than the stick insects which pass for models today! I am not sure if Rafael painted many pagan themes, Titian was not so worried as long as the money was good.

Rafael indeed stuck to religious themes, yet some of his models were stuningly beautiful. Take those putti he liked so much, and the Madonnas. I agree that meatier women are quite attractive indeed! Have you ever been to Ferrara? The Castello Estense contains the best example of secular frescoes in the world. Depicts the life of Hercules. Quite an underetaking.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/18857561@N06/4529035844/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castello_Estense

Originally posted by scacchipazzo
I can't rememebr the last time anyone piped in about literature, painting, poetry, sculpture or other form of non-musical art. Plus there's no cool little utube videos of artists painting or even their models posing. I'd love a utube of Boticelli's Birth of Venus being painted!

YouTube

There ya go.

Originally posted by FreakyKBH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUuMjkvFuak

There ya go.

Thank you! Nice try, but I like Respighi better than Enya or whatever that was!

YouTube&feature=watch_response

There is a movie with Botticelli and his models as its central theme, but I cannot for the world find it anywhere! Nor can i remember the name.