Lenssen 1 Lavinia Lenssen Mr. Silvers Art: 6th Period 26 September 2015 Leonardo Da Vinci: Research Paper Leonardo Da Vinci was a true genius, who many claim that he was the the smartest and most talented man to ever live. Not only was he far ahead of his time, he was an artist, scientist, mathematician, engineer, architect, and inventor. Unfortunately, his inventions were only theories and were never actually built during his lifetime. Also, nobody else had ever even known about his…
Leonardo Da Vinci is known to everyone as the father of the renaissance for the “Renaissance Man” for everything that he contributed during his lifetime. He is the one who invented the high renaissance style he was amused by a lot of things not just painting as everyone knows him for. He also was known for his sculptors, and his inventions, Leonardo was very concern with the laws of science and nature (Leonardo Da Vinci Bio). Leonardo was born in April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy his parents were…
Leonardo da Vinci’s “Virgin of the Rocks” and Mary Cassatt’s “After the Bath” are two pieces of art I will be comparing and contrasting. [HELP] “Virgin of the Rocks”, also known as, “Madonna of the Rocks” are two pieces of art composed by Leonardo da Vinci, who was a Renaissance artist. They were created in return for a commission by the Fraternity of Immaculate Conception on April 25th, 1483. This painting was going to be in the Church of San Francesco Grande for an altarpiece that would hang…
I will be talking about Greco and Pablo Picasso. They are two amazing artists. Greco was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1540. He was a painter,sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. In 1570 he traveled to Rome where he built a workshop and executed a series of work. When he was in his twenties he traveled to Venice and studied under Titian, who was the most famous painter of his day. At the age of 35 he moved to Toledo, Spain where he lived and worked for the rest of his life and…
Mixing the colors of Titian and sketches of the great Michelangelo, Tintoretto brought an awe inspiring new air to the art of the Renaissance with his innovative ideas combined with the works of older Renaissance masters. He created many works over the course of his lifetime, and through those works Tintoretto portrayed some of the most prominent themes in the fine arts of the Renaissance. With outstanding contrast and color usage mixed with an amazing skill in creating accurate and realistic…
Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy. He was the first of six children born to Vincenzo Galilei, a well-known musician and music theorist, and Giulia Ammannati. In 1574, his family moved to Florence, where Galileo began his formal education at the Camaldolese monastery in Vallombrosa. Galileo Galilei is remembered for several things but one in particular was making observations that essentially set the foundation for modern physics and astronomy. Galileo was never…
Queen's house, designed by architect Inigo Jones was the first pure classical building in Britain and brought a revolution into the architectural scene. Inigo Jones was inspired by his travels in Italy and especially his second visit in 1613 where he visited major cities and buildings and compared theory with practice, from then on his style of architecture took a new form. I want to explore the originality of Queen's house, how much of the design came from Inigo Jones the architect and how much…
In 1656 Diego Velazquez painted Las Meninas for King Philip IV of Spain, at the height of the Baroque artistic period. Baroque was intense and dramatic, used sharp contrast in lighting, vivid color, and was also noted for realism. It reflected the post-Renaissance Catholic Church's intent to bring more people into faith by allowing them to reflect on art and its connection to spirituality. “Las Meninas allows the spectator to freely interact with the painting’s various contradictory points of…
Throughout human history there have been many great heroes. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela, and many more. But there are also plenty of heroes people have heard very little or nothing at all about. Mary Anning is one of those heroes. Mary Anning was born in 1799 in Lyme Regis, England in a poor family. While little is known about her childhood, her father was a cabinet maker and sometimes he collected fossils. Mary and her brother were the only two…
For a long years, many artist have been creating, looking for, criticizing, and enjoying art. A lot of artist have been famous by their art, like Vincent Van Gogh or Leonardo da Vinci. And now I’m going to introduce 3 artists, which are Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Piranesi, and Dominique Ingres and explain 3 arts from each artist. First artist is Sandro Botticelli. Who is Sandro Botticelli? He was a famous Italian Painter on the early renaissance. Renaissance is the art that influence by…