Leonardo da Vinci paintings

The setting of the novel, Ball Don’t Lie, by Matt de la Pena, is set in Venice, California. Venice is near the large city of Los Angeles. The time period was around the 1990’s. This novel has a lot of sad feelings. First off Sticky’s mom died when he was a young boy, she died of cancer. After that all the way to the age of 17 he jumped from foster home to foster home. This character once said “‘ It’s the best place in L.A. to ball… one court houses the homeless and the other accommodates…

for his ability to create three dimensional figures by casting shadows and other various art techniques that reflected three dimensionality. Masaccio was also one of the first painters to use Brunelleschi’s discovery of linear perspective in his paintings. Masaccio used the techniques of the vanishing point in art for the first time. He also used this to create depth, like casting shadows. He gravitated away from the Gothic style and elaborate decorations to a naturalistic and realistic form…

They were Leonardo Da Vinci , Michelangelo , and Raphael. There was no woman to the renaissance era and she challenged the idea that woman can become a writer and can do more than be a slave in the house. As a piece of composition Woof”s style is different but I think…

Galileo Galilei once said “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” Born in Pisa, Italy on February 15, 1564 Galilei was an Italian astronomer, mathematician, and physicist. Who then died on January 8, 1642. He was a man of many talents who was able to invent his own telescope. He invented his first telescope in 1609, Galileo built on the work of others to create a telescope with around 3x magnification, he later improved on this to make…

Florence, Tuscany. Died: • 18th of February 1564 (Aged 64) • Rome, Papal States Known for: • Sculpture • Painting • Architecture • Poetry Notable Work • David • Pieta • The last judgement • Sistine Chapel ceiling Studies: • In 1488-92 Michelangelo was sent to Florence to study grammar under the humanist Francesco da Urbino. • Michelangelo didn’t care about his studies so he copied paintings from churches. Facts: 1. 3 months after Michelangelo was born his mother fell of a horse and…

Vecellio, better known as Titian, painted Venus and Adonis in about 1554; during a period known as the High Renaissance. Venus and Adonis is a workshop copy of one of Titian’s earlier paintings of the same name, created as a part of a six-piece series commissioned by King Phillip II of Spain. Titian called the paintings in this series ‘poesie’, or poems, because each illustrates a mythological story inspired by ‘Metamorphoses’ by the Roman poet Ovid. Titian’s other works in this series include…

to rule the people and tell them what to do. One of the ways the church kept the people faithful is by commissioning artists to paint religious paintings like the ones discussed in this essay. The Last Judgment done by Bosch was during the Northern renaissance, while the Last…

Botticelli, a great Florentine painter, created many impressive pieces and was one of the many prominent Renaissance artists. During the later years of his life, he created one his most singular masterpieces known as The Allegory of the Spring. The painting is so complex that scholars have been debating on the true meaning of his picture for years. Botticelli’s The Allegory of the Spring is a classic example of Renaissance art because it portrays the use of, the…

Galileo Galilei once said, “Passion is the genesis of genius”. I think of Galileo Galilei as an example of the relationship between Culture and Personal Passion. Through his personal history, the force of his ideas and his impetus he became one of the most inspiring people for the humankind. Our current conception of the universe's order, the bases of the modern notion of nature and Jupiter's four moons are some of his discoveries, findings that by the way, continue resonating. Today, we…

William Harvey was and still is a very important individual in the advancements of science in the renaissance period, who is credited today as being on of the most influential English physicians in history. He is mostly known for his research into the circulatory system and the first person to correctly describe how blood was transported throughout the body by the heart. Harvey was one of the few physicians who was never afraid to go beyond what science had expected at his time for pushing…