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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a painter, architect, inventor, and student of all things scientific. He is known as the “Renaissance man.” Today he is best known for his art, including a couple of paintings that are still a few of the world’s most famous and admired, The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Art, da Vinci believed, was connected with science and nature. Self-educated, he filled dozens of secret notebooks with inventions, observations and theories. The concepts expressed in his…

Lincoln Motor Company. ""Bull" Matthew McConaughey and the MKC: Official Commercial." YouTube. YouTube, 4 Sept. 2014. Web. 11 Oct. 2015. This commercial starts with a view of a bull standing in the middle of the road in a dessert area. Then the camera cuts to a shot of Mathew McConaughey sitting inside of a Lincoln MKC saying, “That’s a big bull.” Throughout the commercial McConaughey continues to narrate as the camera moves showing the entire vehicle. He then says “1800 pounds of do whatever…

Vinci was doing many things that helped change the views of man. Leonardo was born out of wedlock between a respected notary and a peasant woman in 1452. During his child and teen years, Leonardo was under the care of a sculptor by the name of Andrea Del Verrocchio, who helped him kick off his art career. Like all people, Leonard had his fair share of thoughts and opinions, he voiced and showed them through his work. Leonardo’s studied can be categorized by academics and arts, by doing so he…

Perseverance is a lesson taught through hardship and difficulty, most people learn this skill as they begin their young adult life, but for me, I had learned this lesson at a very young age. The most common societal definition of perseverance is usually taught to people as: “stay strong despite the challenges you face” which is a belief that is interpreted in a number of ways by many people. I believe that the real definition of perseverance is facing a challenge and being able to succeed,…

There are many inventors in golden ages that they made great achievements Such as: 1: Aljazeri 2: Abas Ibn Frnas 3: Mariam Alesterlabi 4: Ibn Alhitham 5: Abu Alkasm Alzahrawi *Aljazeri: He was an Arab Muslim polymath, mathematician, inventor, engineer, and artist. He had born in 1136. He invent engineer tools, also he converted the circular movement to the straight movement device. He invents the machine that tells the time. We until now still use his invention in our industry, because it…

“Click, click, click!” The life jackets sounded throughout the woods. My family and I were in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. And we were going to swim in a stalactites filled, fresh water, cave! It was cool to try something new, but I was also nervous and hesitant, because it was a dark cave. “Let’s go!” A man yelled who was wearing a big pair of goggles. We all headed down the yucky, old, wooden stairs. “Don’t fall, don’t fall!” I whispered to myself. “You're okay.” My mom responded…

Leonardo da Vinci created masterpieces of art and sculpture. Equally remarkable, his aggregate achievements in engineering, mathematics, anatomy, geology, physics, music, military technology, aeronautics, and a wide range of other fields, not only stood without peer in his own time, but were strikingly prescient for the distant future. He recorded his forward-looking ideas in thousands of notebook pages, known as codices. He produced one codex entirely on flight in 1505-1506, the Codex on the…

Imagine a herd of sheep with no shepherd, a band of rats with no piper, or a hive with no queen bee. In all of the scenarios, there is unmitigated chaos and uncontrollable disorder due to the lack of a unifying purpose. A world filled with followers would be similar, with everyone ready to conform but with no path to follow, and would lead to an unproductive and aimless society. On the other hand, imagine a pack of only alpha wolves or a pride consisting solely of dominant lions. Such a society…

famous painting in the history of Western art. The net worth of the painting is in the billions of dollars. The art quality produced looks comparable to a real person and it is a portrait of a woman named Lisa Gherardini she was married to Francesco Del Giocondo. The smile of the woman remains quite a mystery to countless people it is dated back to the 16th century before painter Leonardo da Vinci died. The painting was done using oil, which was common during this century. Descriptive The…

The Renaissance Art Movement began in Italy and means rebirth. The Renaissance Art Movement was in the late 13th and early 14th century. This was a time when individual expression and worldly expression became two of the main themes. This movement had a lot of economic growth. Education blossomed in this time period. New technology was born in this time period, like the printing press. Most of the art in this period was commissioned by wealthy merchant families, mostly the Medici. Much of the…