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France, Jeanne d'Evreux. It is a silver-gilt and enamel piece with the height of 2′ 3 1/2″ high. There isn’t any known record of the artist who actually built the sculpture, but it is known that they were a goldsmith. The piece can now be seen in Louvre Museum in France. The subject of the piece is the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ as a baby. During that 13th century, the Virgin Mary was favored to being the subject of many artworks. The piece represents the passion of love that Mary has for…

Many pieces of art and treasure were lost during the time of the Holocaust. Losing art and treasure is like losing a piece to your culture. Up to 200,000 art works are thought to have gone missing during WWII. Luckily, a group called the Monuments Men saved or discovered more than five million works of art in Nazi hiding places. Without them many famous pieces of art known around the world wouldn’t be here today. The Monuments men didn’t save every treasure or piece of art, but there are some…

Geography is essential to understanding the place with the only known life source on it. Because there is so much information and geography covers a wide variety of topics,it can be broken down into five themes: Movement, Region, Human-Environment Interaction, Location, and Place. Each of these themes helps people understand more about the earth, how it is formed, how ideas spread, and how it affects other places and things. Knowing this kind of information can help one make better decisions…

(Edgar Degas). His focus was on their natural movement as they practiced. Exploring the way the dancers' bodies flowed through performance. Edgar showed a talent for drawing while young and wanted to become and artist. Edgar spent a lot of time at the Louvre a famous art museum in Paris. He loved to paint the dancers practicing. He wanted to capture their energy, hard work and effort. He copied many of the masterpieces of classical artists. Most people know Degas as the painter of ballerinas.…

Leonardo da Vinci was an incredible artist and sculptor, an inventor ahead of his time, and an exceptional thinker. Da Vinci’s work far surpassed the standard of the period and thus landed him the nickname, “Renaissance Man.” He paved the way for modern innovations in art, science, and technology, making him one of the greatest thinkers of the Renaissance. Leonardo da Vinci was born the illegitimate son of a peasant woman and a notable man of Florentine, Italy in 1452. Da Vinci was raised by his…

The amazing piece is still on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. Though it was a great work of art, there are many conspiracies surrounding the portrait, such as the fact that her eyes portray sorrow yet her smiling image contradicts it in the painting. This has led many to believe that…

simultaneously seen as inspired by and breaking free of Paul Cézanne's The Large Bathers. Beginning with the prominent piece that is to have influenced the other two works, Cezanne's Large Bathers. It invokes his hours studying and copying masters at the Louvre. There he saw many depictions of mythological stories and figures and many nudes in landscapes (Philidelphia...n.d.). This pieces is said to have been derived…

The Creation of Adam was the most exemplary scene on the Sistine ceiling of the nine scenes. Michelangelo created his image of God creating man and the world. Another well-known Sistine work was the Last Judgment on the wall behind the church altar. The Last Judgment was more personal because Michelangelo add people he disliked and himself in this painting in an unfavorable manner. All the works of art mentioned here were commissioned by people of high status or related to the church.…

Rome’s Purpose for Sculpture and Painting As has been the case throughout this course, I am once again intrigued by this week’s Learning Journal question. I had not previously thought about the purpose of Roman sculpture or considered if there were cherished Roman paintings, similar to the Mono Lisa. My research for this assignment surprised me. While the Romans no doubt enjoyed the esthetic of art, it was more to them. It was yet another tool for them to use, apply, exploit as a technology, the…

Leonardo da Vinci was an artist, inventor, and scientist during the Italian Renaissance. He was born in the town of Vinci, Italy on april 15, 1452. When Leonardo was about the age of 14, he became an apprentice to a famous artist name Verrocchio. This is how he learned about art, drawing, painting, and more. Leonardo da Vinci’s full name is, Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci. He was the person who had created the renaissance man and the mona lisa. Leonardo da Vinci died on May 2, 1519 in Amboise,…