Title of the Work of Art:

The House of Medici

Genre:
Interiors
Period-Movement:
Contemporary Photorealism/Photo-based Art
Date of Creation:
2012
Technique:
Painting
Materials:
Oil on Canvas
Dimensions:
48 x 36 inches


Artwork Description:
The House of Medici is another painting based on the interiors of Renaissance galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We see people deeply engaged with art: two women conversing over the Madonna, a man watching medieval portraiture, and a girl, lost in thought, standing near the sarcophagus. This painting beautifully combines contrasting cold contemporary photorealism with the painterly realism of historical paintings on the art gallery walls.