Leonardo da Vinci Essay

Amerigo Vespucci was the first to recognize that the land Christopher Columbus claimed to be Asia, was not actually Asia, but in fact, a “New World” later to be named after Amerigo, himself. Born in the fifteenth century, Vespucci was well educated and especially fond of cartography. Although born and raised in Italy, he lived for many years in Spain and held many different jobs before he embarked on his first journey. Vespucci set sail a total of four times, each voyage bringing its unique…

“What? Oh… yesterday? That’s not... I’m a film student at university. That was Un Chien Andalou. It’s amazing it’s this French film by a Spanish director and even Salvador Dali helped to make the film he’s an-” “He’s an artist… he does the funny clocks right?” Louis asked as he took a small sip of his coffee, it was sickly sweet and yet he liked it. “You’re into art?” Harry’s voice seemed to echo a slight surprise. “Not really, my boyfriend is mad about it, he thinks he’s going to be the…

6) Renaissance Why is perspective important for the Renaissance artist? With reference to two (or three) examples of artworks in which linear perspective plays an important part in the overall composition of the painting, discuss how the system was employed to create a desired illusion of depth, and what the artist wants to communicate through this. By: Bernice Seow The Renaissance was the period between the 14th to 17th century that originated in Italy and spread to the rest of…

Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the most famous actors of our time because of not only his dedication to movies and filmmaking, but also his dedication to the environment and charity. On February 28th 2016, Mr. DiCaprio finally won his first Oscar award for the best actor in “The Revenant.” This amazing actor was born in Los Angeles, California. When Leo was a little toddler when his parents decided to get a divorce. Leo grew up mainly with his mom but was still close with his father. Leo’s name…

Filippo Brunelleschi is widely known as one of the founding fathers of Renaissance architecture, as well as the first modern engineer. Born in Florence, Italy in 1377 and died in April 14th, 1446, Brunelleschi was the second son to Brunelleschi di Lippo di Tura di Cambio Bacherini a notary and Giuliana di Giovanni Spini. Di Lippo’s family was from Ficarolo on the Po and was of importance and well known, as Di Lippo was also a diplomat. From a very young age Brunelleschi was taught mathematics…

First of all, I would like to analyze Dardalus. Daedalus is the Steve Jobs of Greek mythology. If something cool and new needs inventing, he's the man to do it. Various Greek writers credit Daedalus with inventing the axe, boat sails, a big maze called the "Labyrinth," statues that depicting people with separated legs and hands, and of course, fake wings for humans. At one point, he throws his nephew off the Acropolis after the poor kid invents a few contraptions that are cooler than Daedalus'.…

In recent weeks, I had to think a lot about what Spanish film I would like to review. Since I took a class in the history of art, I have had an interest in learning how some works of art are related to historical events. Now I have decided that I would like to talk about the movie: The Last Supper. Directed by Tomas Gutierrez Alea, this film talks about different topics. For example; slavery, history and art. As I think the themes of the film are important, I will talk about the issues more…

Seeing art remain utterly static from whom and where it came from over decades of analysis and adaptation is bizarrely unusual. The Mona Lisa has been exalted, stolen, and debated ad nauseam for its cultural substance. Shakespeare’s works have been dissected to bits in classrooms around the world. Even modern media still under the chains of copyright like Citizen Kane still gets parodied and adored by fans and critics alike. Their roles in society remain fluid and ever subject to changing…

of story telling through symbols are still contemporary, and can be seen widely in use today in this field. It has, of course, added other elements to display the information clearly. Slightly more modern history of infographic can be seen in Leonardo Da Vinci’s drawing of the ‘Vitruvian Man’, it is a study of the proportions of the male human body based on his research, accompanied by the description in writing. Here infographics moved from storytelling to illustrating…

This Journal use Ruben's artworks as the theme, Rosenthal by studying the details of the human bodies in Ruben's painting, to discuss the characteristics of Rubens’s artworks, and the Rubens's construction of heroic virtue. At the beginning of the journal Rosenthal was introduced that Rubens was a well-known baroque style painter in the 17th century in Western Europe. Rubens was very good at depicting the fleshy of female body, and his painting is also containing rich topic. Religious stories,…