Leonardo Bruni

consist of coloring agents, or pigments, that are sometimes ground or mixed with substances that hold the pigment together, called binders.”(p.165) I selected the composition “Study of a Woman's Head or the Angel of the Vergine delle Rocce, 1473” by Leonardo da Vinci. This is merely just a sketch of a woman's head from the finished art work of “Virgin of the Rocks”. Metalpoint is “One of the most common techniques used in drawing in the late-fifteenth- and early-sixteenth- century Italy. A…

During the processes of painting and repainting - the practice of applying paint and scraping it back off again - there are resultant blemishes, bumps, knocks and scratches that accumulate incrementally on the surface. Canning (2012) remarks that his paintings do not aim for “flawless” surfaces; rather “they’re marked, and they do tell the story of the history of their making”. The hereditary traits of Canning’s inheritance of his father’s trade can also be seen in works like “Lithium” (Fig 4-11…

Historians are constantly attempting to understand the factors that distinguish the Renaissance period from the Middle Ages. There has been a consistent focus on Italy as the beginning of the Renaissance, however, recently there has been a shift towards focussing on the Renaissance as a series of smaller, linked “Renaissances” around Europe. These different approaches have been examined in Introduction: A Wider Renaissance? by Alexander Lee. Lee establishes that one of the most prominent…

modest, beggar way of life. To bolster themselves, and their congregation, the Humiliati worked in wool production. They were outstanding for utilizing workmanship to empower sentiments of commitment. On the other hand, the picture on the left is the Leonardo da Vinci, Madonna of the Rocks, painted in 1495‐1508 painted in San Francesco Grande in Milan. The work of art was done on a wooden board, which was intended to be set inside a bigger etched altarpiece for the house of prayer. Since the…

Futurism was the most important and influential Italian avant-garde art movement that took speed, technology and modernity as its inspiration which emerged from the 20h century (The Art Story, 2016). The group of the Futurists loved speed, noise, machines, pollution, and urban landscapes; they were committed to change in Italy as the country was behind in comparison to the rest of Europe. Futurism was not about visual or traditional art, they were fascinated by new visual technology and used it…

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, political and social structures were drastically altered by the concept that that humans can achieve, on their own, without having to rely on God. This concept is also known as humanism. During the Renaissance a man named Niccolo Machiavelli wrote The Prince. The Prince was a document that taught people at the time how they could achieve to gain power, A specific excerpt from chapter twenty-five of this document, “ I hold it true that Fortune is the…

draw whatever came to their mind. This wall was particularly interesting to me, because anyone who had anything they wanted to express had a blank sheet where they could freely and safely speak their minds. If we go back to the 1500’s, and look at Leonardo…

I like the artist Leonardo da Vinci. My favorite work of his is "Mona Lisa". I find it very intriguing, because he is a very good artist, and he pays good attention to details. Leonardo da Vinci was born in the year of 1452 in Anchiano, Tuscany (now Italy) and died in the year of 1519 in Cloux, France. Also his parents were never married (just like me), then at an early age his mother married another man and started a new family. Da Vinci never had an advanced education, he was only tought basic…

During the Renaissance ages Leonardo Da Vinci had many effects that had helped the Renaissance with artistic aspects. Leonardo Da Vinci sought a universal language painting and affected the Renaissance in so many ways and changed everyone's perspective of art. He would always go beyond everyone and would never stop until he would discover new things. Leonardo Da Vinci had made art into a whole different level and had made three big projects the Mona Lisa, the last supper, and discovered a…

would express [1] “Vitruvian Man” by Leonardo da Vinci as a work of art, undoubtedly this is a clear-cut display of scientific knowledge. This drawing by Da Vinci is about proportions in the human body. Leonardo is responsible for the sketch and the notes were provided by the Roman architect and engineer [2] Vitruvius in Book III of his dissertation De architectura. While it can be argued that Vitruvius performed the equations, it was the artistic skill of Leonardo da Vinci that made this…