Task 4 : Compare and Contrast
The Artist is Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Leonardo da Vinci), born on 15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519, He was an Italian polymath whose interest was covered in many areas such as: cartography, history, writing, botany, astronomy, geology, anatomy, literature, engineering, mathematics, music, science, architecture, sculpting, invention and painting.He was called the father of palaeontology, iconology and architecture.He is one of the greatest painter of all time.
Artwork 1: ‘Lady with an Ermine’
The title is, ‘Lady with an Ermine’.
It was painted in Wawel Castle, Kraków around 1489-90.
The subject of the portrait is Cecilia Gallerani, This was painted when she was the mistress of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan,
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the space isn 't covered that much but the space covered is mostly by the lady because the background is empty so its a little open and things do overlap and the focal point is the lady’s face and than the ermine.
Artwork 2: ‘Mona lisa’
1.The title is, ‘Mona Lisa’.
2.The work was paintes around 1503-06 in Florence, Italy.
3.The subject is Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. Mona Lisa comes from a description by Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari, who wrote.
4.It might be dominate but it also might not be dominate because it doesn 't have a great point of creation but it might be dominant to how it was created.
5.It is pictorial are because it was to create something but it might also be to record something which might not make it pictorial area which makes it a frame.
6.The actual size of Mona Lisa is 77cm x 53 cm.
7.The proportion of height to width is
8.He used divine proportion.
9.A little bit from the bottom both corners.
10.The techniwue used is callee sfumato (the Italian word for smoke).
11.Oil on popular.
12.It seems it is thin but scientifically it has been proven that Vinci painted up to 30 layers of paint on his works to meet his standards of