Francis I of France Essays

of the renowned Florentine painter Andrea del Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan. He later worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice, and he spent his last years in France at the home awarded to him by Francis I of France. Leonardo was, and is, renowned primarily as a painter. Among his works, the Mona Lisa is the most famous and most parodied portrait and The Last Supper the most

The true definition of honor is “a privilege” or “high respect”. To me honor means having courage to be committed to or feel pride for something or someone, so I guess I’m not that far off. Around the world there are many honorable people and honorable scientists. One scientist is a man famous for his inventions but mostly for his world known art pieces including The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. He was also the only left handed artist of his time. Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo Da Vinci is known more

Maura Spang 1-8-18 Astronomy Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath who did and studied things such as inventing, architecture, science, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, and astronomy. In addition to all of this he is considered one of the best and most widely known painters in the world. While da Vinci was definitely a typical well rounded “Renaissance man” his discoveries within the field of astronomy helped

Leonardo Da Vinci Popularly known as the ‘Renaissance Man’, Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, shortened as Leonardo da Vinci was born on 15 April 1452 in Anchiano, Tuscany (near Vinci), in the province of Florence, Italy. He was among the creative thinkers of the Italian Renaissance. Though he was a highly significant figure as an Italian sculptor and painter, he showed his enormous talents in the fields of science, mathematics, engineering, invention, music, and writing. Early Life: Leonardo da

Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci was a famous artist and scholar, during the Italian Renaissance. Da Vinci is best known for his painting, the Mona Lisa. Da Vinci was a famous Italian painter, sculptor, engineer, inventor, architect, and a studier of all things scientific. Leonardo da Vinci was self-educated. While he is mostly recognized as an artist, there are many other areas he excelled in, making him the perfect example of a “Renaissance Man.” Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452

Leonardo da Vinci, a natural genius with extraordinary talent adorned the hat of a painter, inventor, architect, and a science student. Although he was self-educated, Leonardo has an intriguing mind that resulted in several inventions, theories, and observations ranging from anatomy to aeronautics. His concepts described in the notebook is hard to interpret as it is beyond the understanding of the era. His extraordinary visual intelligence and astute empirical is visible in his art and scientific

astronomy,history and writing.Polymath is also known in another term which is polyhistor.Leonardo was born on the 15th of April 1452 in Vinci, Republic of lorence which today is known as the present-day Italy and died on the 2nd of May 1519 at Amboise in France at the ripe age of 67.He was mostly famously known for his work in science and art.He is also considered as one of the greatest painters of all time and also regarded as one of the best inventors with his

If you have never heard of the Mona Lisa, chances are that you have been living in a cave your whole life. Most people know the painting and some know the artist’s name, but many people do not know much else. Aside from painting one of the most, if not the most, famous paintings in history, Leonardo da Vinci was an incredible man and a jack of many trades. Leonardo has impacted the world in many ways from his incredible artwork, to his centuries ahead of their times inventions, to his legacy of scientific

his sister the Lady Mary under persuasive efforts from the Duke of Northumberland. Lady Jane Grey was sadly only Queen of England for nine days as a result of the heavy revolts from the supporters of Lady Mary, the rightful heir to the throne. Mary I became the first true Queen of England, and began her task to restore England to Roman Catholicism, as she was a fanatical one herself. She restored the laws to burn heretics. This allowed many Protestants to be burned during her reign, because Catholics

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) was the greatest in his era he was a painter, architect, inventor, and loved everything to do with science. Leonardo Da Vinci is known for his beautiful works of art, two of his most famous being the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Leonardo Da Vinci connected art to science in a way no one had done before. Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest artist of all time and it shows in his work and determination. Leonardo Da Vinci was born in Anchiano, Tuscany which is

an art work that was commissioned privately and completed between 1505 and 1507. There have been many different things said about this wonderful work of art. It has been said that Mona Lisa had jaundice, that she was a pregnant woman and the one that I love the best that it wasn’t a woman at all but a man in drag. Personally my romantic heart says that she was a woman very much in love and thinking about her love while the painting was being painted that is why she has that unusual smile on her face

Michelangelo Pistoletto Michelangelo Pistoletto, an Italian Sculptor, Conceptual, and Performance artist was born on June 25, 1933 in Biella, Italy. Michelangelo Pistoletto was born into an artistic family. With an Affinity for drawing his mother enrolled him in Armando Testa’s prestigious advertising school at age 18. After being in school and learning, a more contemporary art style he began to experiment on works of self-portraiture. Pistoletto’s love for contemporary art grew

assignment, I watched three videos over da Vinci’s most famous pieces of art; “The Last Supper”, Vitruvian Man, and the Mona Lisa. In the da Vinci: “The Last Supper” video, the narrator states that da Vinci’ painting of The Last Supper confirmed him to be the greatest artist of his age. In the da Vinci: Anatomist video, the narrator explains how da Vinci became an anatomist. In the da Vinci: Mona Lisa video, the narrator discusses the mystery of the famous painting, the “Mona Lisa”. I agree with the

One of his paintings, “Mona Lisa” is, “arguably the most famous painting in the world” (Websource #1). In fact, today the “Mona Lisa” is hung behind bulletproof glass in the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. The “Mona Lisa” is also believed by some to be a national treasure. In addition, da Vinci’s painting, “The Last Supper” is still studied by art historians infatuated with the distinct attitude of the painting. Da Vinci’s inventions, paintings, and

ANDREAS VESALIUS Andreas Vesalius, the father of modern anatomy was born in Brussels in 1514 and died in 1564. Throughout his life of 49 years, Vesalius challenged medical theories with a thirst for learning and discovery. Born into a wealthy family with his father as a pharmacist at the court of Margret of Austria, he received a privileged education from six years old. In 1537, Vesalius gained his doctorate and became a professor of Surgery and Anatomy at the University of Padua. He valued lifelong

Have you ever stared at picture or painting more than once, and every time you look at it, it seems to change? You question whether the image is just your mind playing tricks on you, or whether it is just plane creepy. That is exactly what the Mona Lisa has yielded since its existence to the millions and millions of people that have gazed upon one of the most enigmatic and talked about portraits of all time. The artist, Leonardo Da Vinci, painter of the most parodied work of art in the world, is

Madonna del Magnificat was created by Botticelli in the early 1480s. It is said to be one of the most famous paintings of the Madonna during his time because of the five contemporary replicas which were created. The painting was covered with gold paint and if you see it in person the figures appear to be life size. The virgin which is slightly almost at the center of the painting is crowned by two angels and is depicted as the queen of heaven. Two wingless angels are crowning her. The crown she is

Versailles I. “You gaze, and stare, and try to understand…” quoted Mark Twain. The vast architecture of Versailles has silenced many with its history and astonishing views. Many see the beauty of the castle today and can hardly imagine the troubled land that was once there. Like Saint-Simon who saw Versailles before its growth, he said Versailles is” the gloomiest, most thankless place without a view.” It all started as a small cottage constructed by King Louis XIII in 1623. By the mid 1700’s the

Leonardo Leonardo DA Vinci is considered by some as the most intelligent man that has ever lived. His ideas are still studied and used today. Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452 in a farmhouse nestled in the hills of Tuscany outside the village of Anchiano, which is present day Italy. His father was Sir Piero and his mother was a young peasant woman by the name of Caterina. Leonardo was born out of wedlock and had family problems in his youth years. Leonardo was raised by his father and step mother

Referred to as “the best representative of the Mexican sculptural movement at the time” by Diego Rivera, I chose to do my research on Guatemalan painter and sculptor Rafael Yela Günther. I am attracted to his work because long before I knew who he was I saw some of his sculptures personally in Guatemala and I was truly impressed. Naturally my interest to know more about his artwork grew when I learned that Rivera had some influence on him during their time working together in Teotihuacan. Rafael