Rose O’Neal Greenhow (confederate spy) Rose O’Neal Greenhow is friendly with the northern politicians like the Secretary of State and the Massachusetts Senator. On July 1861, she sent reports about the Union’s plan to invade.
This film is a documentary about Nina Simone, who was a brilliant, revolutionary and controversial musician. The film starts out with one of her performances, she walks out and looks shocked or dismayed then proceeds to perform. Accordingly, the film goes on to an interview with her daughter named Lisa Simone Kelly. Throughout the film her daughter is interviewed and gives insight to what her mother was like. “When she was preforming she was brilliant and she was loved” (Lisa Simone Kelly).
True crime special: Why charming Melbourne con artist Mona Hayes was driven to kill INTRODUCTION Mona Hayes was a thief with swift case of murder. In the 1930s Mona Hayes was travelling with a fake identity. Mona Hayes was known as a theatre usher and known to be working with a bad company. Hayes was always found to be accompanied with cheats and thieves and when the company was going through financial occurrences they would use these clients as robbers or blackmail artists and that was according to the police departments.
Of my many volunteer and paid extra-curricular activities, the most important to me is the National Art Honor Society, which extends artistic activities to my community. We organize two school events: the Festival of Trees and the Talent Competition. The Festival of Trees is an event when every school club can choose to donate and decorate a tree that we set up. All of the money raised goes to an organization of our choice. For the last 4 years, we have donated to Street Grace, which benefits the fight against human trafficking, especially in the Metro Atlanta area.
Jeanne d’Arc, or more commonly know as Saint Joan of Arc or Joan of Arc, was a very important saint. She is an important saint especially towards France during the middle ages and the hundred years war between France and England. Even though Joan of Arc only lived for about 19 years, she left a large impact on France. In fact, she was so important that she became the patron saint of France. But she was not a queen nor a noble, no, she was born a peasant in a small village in the Barrios region at the eastern border of France.
Anne Frank The Voice of the Holocaust Writer, diary, and inspiration are some words people often think of when they hear about Anne Frank. Many people know that she wrote a diary and was a Jewish citizen during World War II, but she was so much more. As a Jewish girl in hiding who experienced suffering and fear at such a young age, her story inspires hope and resilience in the face of death and destruction. Anne Frank changed the world by showing what life was like from the inside out of affected areas during World War II. She wrote her diary that helped others realise the true horrors of war.
The Mona Lisa, beautifully made by Leonardo da Vinci. Mona Lisa, rightfully known as La Gioconda, the wife of Francesco del Gioconda. The painting is created on wood, the dimensions are 77cm x 53cm. It stays on the wall in the Louvre in Paris, France. The figure of a woman who is strikingly dressed in the Florentine fashion of her day, placed in a visionary mountainous
Everyone has at least seen the Mona Lisa picture once in their lifetime. Mona Lisa is illustrated by Leonardo Da Vinci, in 1503 to 1506. Leonardo Da Vinci was an
I’ve always loved art. In grade school I would always tell everyone that art was my favorite subject when they asked. In middle school all of my electives were art oriented and I found myself observing artwork in a different way. Art wasn’t just pretty colors and shapes anymore, each piece provoked emotion and had meaning. Throughout high school I joined various art clubs.
Around 1498, Da Vinci became an independent artist, not needing the help from Verrocchio anymore. The Sforza family asked Da Vinci to create a bronze sculpture that stood sixteen feet tall, to honor
Inside the Louvre Museum in Paris, and through its corridors Jacques Saunière the Curator in the Louvre is struggling for his life and for protecting the Holy Grail secret from a monk of Opus Dei known as Silas. Silas was sent to look for the secret place of the Holy Grail and must get it in any way, after threatening him Jacques Saunière reveals the secret. Silas shoots him and leaves him sinking in his blood. But Jacques Saunière fooled him about the truth of this sacred secret, he lied on him. Before he dies, Saunière draws a simple symbol of five lines forming a pentacle on his stomach and draws around him a circle with his own blood and then lies in its center representing Leonardo Da Vinci’s Virtruvian Man, besides this he writes an undecipherable
In my U.S. History class, my teacher has an image of The Mona Lisa because there some history behind the picture. For example, who drew The Mona Lisa? Well, it was Leonardo da Vinci. Also, this portrait is one of the most famous portrait during the Renaissance. Back then wealthy people, like kings; nobles; etc., were able to afford the portrait, but now most people can afford it.
Leonardo had a fascination for science behind his art. He painted in an almost mathematical way, using various forms of perspective. Two techniques he used on The Mona Lisa were sfumato and chiaroscuro. Sfumato is a “subtle change of tone and color”2 which blurs the contours in a painting, creating a smoky effect. Chiaroscuro is “an effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction.
Each artist paints and or sculpts pieces that show human emotions, religious symbolism, and extreme detail. Leonardo da Vinci is the first artist to be discussed because of his popularity. He is best known for the Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa was a portrait of a woman that developed a meaning, people said it’s a symbol of the Renaissance information which came from this quote. “The Mona Lisa was originally this type of portrait, but over time its meaning has shifted and it has become an icon of the Renaissance perhaps the most recognized painting in the world.”
The “Mona Lisa” is the best known and most visited piece of art. It is a portrait painting done by Leonardo de Vinci. The portrait is an oil painting on a white Lombardy poplar panel. The woman in the portrait is sat upright in an armchair, with her arms folded. This painting was one of the first portraits that depicted the sitter in front of an imaginary landscape.
