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film/TV animation, video games, graphic art, magazine illustrations and more, this report is meant to re-evaluate the works of one of the most influential artists known to all: Leonardo Da Vinci, a visionary of many talents that strongly revolutionized the world of art, notably in conceptual art, painting and sculpture. Da Vinci was known for many things especially his paintings. The paintings that will be discussed are “Lady with the Ermine”, “The Last Supper” and “The Mona Lisa.” The…

Leonardo da Vinci created same very famous paintings and invention. He had a very interesting early life. He lived in cool places. His child hood was a very important part of his life. His parents helped him with his life in the youth stage. Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy. He was interested in laws of science and nature, which helped him, when being a printer and inventor. People say that His painting of Mona Lisa is one of the best known paintings out there. The…

Starting around the 1500s, the High Renaissance was a blossoming time for art in Italy. High Renaissance artists were, more often than not, highly skilled in many different fields (italian-renaissance-art). Leonardo da Vinci was a guru when it came to sciences and Michelangelo was an immaculately gifted poet, painter and sculptor. The third member of the trio who is considered to have a great contribution to the magnificent examples of High Renaissance art is none other than the talented artist…

The self-operating napkin is a famous cartoon that sums up what Rube Goldberg machines are all about: creating a machine(or contraption or invention or device or apparatus) that uses a chain reaction to accomplish a very simple task in a very complicated manner. For example, the self-operating napkin accomplishes the simple task of wiping the chin through this convoluted series of events: lifting a soup spoon (A) pulls a string (B) that jerks a ladle (C) that then throws a cracker (D) past a…

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was first and foremost an Italian sculptor, as well as, a painter during the High Renaissance. His piece entitled Pietà was created between the years of 1498–1499 in St. Peter’s Basilica (Kleiner). Gian Lorenzo Bernini was also an Italian sculptor and architect, but during the Baroque period. The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa was finished in 1652 for the Cornaro family chapel in Santa Maria della Vittoria (Kleiner). Though there is complexity in the…

include art, literature and philosophy. The art was centralized around being more life-like and showing perspective. Artists like Michelangelo were able to show better human anatomy in paintings and statues with much more accuracy thanks to Leonardo Da Vinci (an artist as well as a scholar). The statue “David” from Michelangelo represents this perfectly. Not only was this a time of great artistic change, but literary change as well. Renaissance poetry and…

Jan van Eyck’s, Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife, was created during the midst of the early Renaissance, specifically the year 1434. But, it was not created in Italy along with the Renaissance. Instead, the ideas and rules of the place had spread, through various artists and trade, to places like Flanders. This oil on panel artwork, however is not like most portraits; in fact, this is a full-length double portrait. Many scholars and historians believe that this is one of the most complex early…

There are various examples of the Golden Ratio found in da Vinci’s The Last Supper, which was created between 1494 and 1498 and is located at the Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. The PhiMatrix software has been used to show the various occurences of the Golden Ratio in da Vinci’s The Last Supper: In yellow, the ratio of the depth of the table to the space shown below the table corresponds to the proportions of the Golden Ratio. Additionally, the rectangle in the…

This quote, said by the famous painter Leonardo da Vinci. The painter was a very intelligent and talented man who painted the Mona Lisa and many other well known paintings. While saying this, he probably thought of imagination and creativity that every person has. He might’ve had a different meaning when he said this, but people that hear this quote take it a different way. In my own opinion, it means creativity, and how people express themselves. One this this quote means is creativity.…

Think of a time where people saw that they were in control of their own destinies, where they saw that they can achieve great things. Is that hard to imagine? Believe it or not, there was a period where people possessed these ideals. This time was called the Renaissance. During the Renaissance, many cultural changes took place, taking place in aspects of religion, art, architecture, science, and medicine. The Renaissance mostly took place in Italy. The word “Renaissance” itself is derived…