Leonardo Bruni

Jan Van Eyck, born in 1390, to Maaseik, Belgium, was said to be, “The Father of Oil Painting.” He was given this reputation for his amazing talent and experimentation with this modern paint. His reputation was also built through the way he fit in with the culture, his art, and his religion. Van Eyck was one of the most famous and significant painters of the renaissance also because of his family of painters all who were less famous but still significant as painters. Van eyck’s career was in…

Many pieces of art were looted during the holocaust by Hitler and the Nazis. Later, men were sent out to find all of the missing art. These men were named the Monuments Men. Many of the art stolen were paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Henri Matisse, while other pieces of art that were stolen were sculptors. But Hitler's main reason for stealing art was for an idea he had. Hitler had an idea that required a lot of famous art. It was rumored that he was going to build a “super museum”…

The history of Sgraffito By Parker Taylor Sgraffito is an ancient style of art that today is most commonly use in pottery; but appears in numerus forms of art from all over the world. The true origin of sgraffito is not known, and is still debated between scholars today. one belief of when sgraffito came from is in the early 10th century, but is argued to go as far back as the 5th century. The term sgraffito is the Italian word for scratch, it adopted this name due to the process used to create…

The general conception of visual realism that I believe best suits Vermeer’s The Concert and The Music Lesson and Bierstadt’s Yosemite Valley, would be the use of pictorial depth cues to portray visual realism. Both painters used pictorial depth cues to create a strong sense of visual realism that helped draw fascination into their paintings. Without the use of the pictorial depth cues, the paintings would not have appeared as if they were realistic and definitely would not have been questioned…

dating back to the ancient Greeks and Romans. Artistically, the Renaissance created an entirely new way to express human emotions and ideals via architecture, sculpture and especially painting. Historically, the painters of the Renaissance, such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Brunelleschi and many others, were forced to fully evaluate not only the achievements of their numerous predecessors but also the new scientific theories of the time related…

How has mental illness changed humanity? I personally liked watching the TED video on “how metal illness changed human history” because the speaker pointed some things out in his video that I wasn’t aware first. At the beginning of the video the speaker told his audience how his parents took him to Europe at the age of 12. There his parents brought him to a cave where he would see cave paintings for the first time in his life. I personally did not know that chose case paintings were in France or…

Ayodeji Elusoji Museum paper Prof. Denize Lorenz 11/17/15 My Visit to The Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts. On my visit I quietness at the premises, then I took some pictures outside the museum after which I proceeded to the entrance into the museum. I met a lady at the desk who welcomed me; I approached her, and relate to her my mission. The gallery attendant walked me through the highlights of the exhibition. Initially, I was told not to enter into the Rebecca Cole…

An encyclopedia can be classified as a secondary source. In this New World Encyclopedia article we have three categories used to describe important achievements throughout the Renaissance. The categories are background, characteristics, and evaluation. In the background section the authors highlight important dates such as, the time period the Renaissance extended through. The characteristic category has the most information, the sub categories are tradition, arts, science and technology,…

In this discussion I will be analyzing the content of arguably Leonardo Da Vinci’s most iconic painting the Mona Lisa. The first interesting fact I learned about this portrait is widely believed to depict a woman named Lisa Gherardini the wife a wealthy of a wealthy silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo. Furthermore, Da Vinci is thought to have intended to complete this portrait for the couple so they could commemorate the birth of their son, however he was never able to complete the…

Reading and Watching: VT 13 & 14 Highlights: During these two units of architecture and Paleolithic Art, I have come across several highlights that will give one an idea of what each unit was about. In the video, “Cathedral of Norte Dame” by Khan Academy, explains how it was the oldest church in its era. It possessed a relic, which is an object that holds special powers, for example in this case, the supposedly Virgin Mary’s tunic. People would travel great distances to see the relic and be…