Leonardo Bruni

August 2017 Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance Polymath with a lot of different interests. Some of these interests included: invention, painting, architecture, science, mathematics, music, engineering, anatomy, history, and botany. Leonardo da Vinci is primarily known as a painter, and some of his most famous paintings included the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. He was born on April 15, 1452 in Anchiano. Anchiano is located in central Italy. Leonardo da Vinci…

Christian Friedrich Schonbein One of the more obscure scientists, Christian Friedrich Schonbein was well known for his discovery of ozone as well as work on fuel cells. He along with Friedrich Goppelsroeder discovered and coined capillary analysis, and later on, paper chromatography. My project centers on ink chromatography and capillary action, both of which were discovered by Friedrich Goppelsroeder and Christian Friedrich Schonbein. Of the two men, Christian Friedrich Schonbein was a more…

remembered? Well, there were lots of aspects to this story that make it so interesting. Somewhere between 1504 and 1519, the masterpiece called the Mona Lisa was created.(Totally History) A world famous artist, scientist, doctor, and even inventor named Leonardo da Vinci is the man who brought to us now one of the most famous pieces of art in history. The Mona Lisa is an oil painting with a rare cottonwood panel as the surface. Now, throughout history people…

While at the Detroit Institute of Arts, I came a crossed a painting in the European Medieval to Renaissance Art section of the museum. The painting was The Flight into Egypt by Bartolome Esteban Murillo. Murillo used oil in 1647-50 to paint this piece. This piece stuck out to me because I saw many other paintings about josephs and Mary’s flight into Egypt. It made me wonder if Murillo had a reason for the colors and other details. Looking at this painting there is a man, a woman and a baby.…

The Man Who Defined Renaissance Art Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, an Italian artist is widely considered one of the greatest artists in the Renaissance. Unlike most, his father worked as in finance and wanted Michelangelo to continue in the family business. However, he showed little interest in school but preferred watching painters in synagogues and copying paintings from the local churches. As the years progressed, Michelangelo became more and more renowned for his skill in…

There are many famous artworks that hold historic significance and meaning in our society. One of the most interesting painting that intrigues me from the SmARThistory links from Khan Academy is The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci made from 1495-1498. The painting was made using oil paint, fresco, and tempura in Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. The artwork illustrates Jesus and his twelve apostles sitting at a table, where he tell reveals that one of them will betray him and his apostles’…

When I was first reading the bible story, I was instead picturing a very different scene than the one that Bordone creates. I was imagining a painting more similar to a work by Heinrich Hofmann made in 1871. His painting Christ in the Temple, shows Christ surrounded by five other men, the doctors who he is conversing with. In this painting, there are much less people which allows for a more compact composition without many other things for the viewer to be distracted by. When I look at Bordone’s…

Madonna is among the greatest piece of art in history, to an extent that Raphael was inspired by earlier pieces of Madonna done Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Raphael short art career lasted for just 20 years. He who was a long-term admirer of Leonardo’s was inspired by his earlier version of Madonna and Child with Saint Anne piece and Michelangelo. Although his own style can be recognized. For instance, in Madonna of the Meadow by Raphael, he absorbed the pyramidal grouping which was so…

Leonardo Da Vinci Dr. Bednarz ME 333 A Group 1: Brandon Petrouskie: Armored Car David Wilke: Aerial Screw Pat Cook: Self Propelled Vehicle Joe Buffa: Giant Crossbow Leonardo Da Vinci was born in 1452 in Vinci, Italy as the illegitimate son of a Florentine lawyer and a young peasant woman. Little is known about his early childhood. He spent five years with his mother before moving in with his father, grandparents and uncle where he could have a better life. Despite moving around,…

Leonardo da Vinci was born April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy. “Leonardo da Vinci, one of the best-known figures of the Renaissance, is remembered for his achievements as a painter, sculptor, architect, scientist, and engineer. Because of the broad range of his interests, he has come to be seen as the supreme example of the universal genius, curious and knowledgeable about many things” (Grendler 13). Leonardo was indeed a jack of all trades, for he knew how to paint, make sculptures, and was very…