Lisa del Giocondo

it touches people heart and let them feel it, the artist would be satisfy. I learned about the power of art and how it can be related to many things in our lives. Art has a power, just like words and actions. I learned from this book that The Mona Lisa is the best known art work in the world. The artist who painted this paint is Leonardo da Vinci’s. He made this piece of art alive, he gave it movement and life. I learned that the ideas about what is beautiful and what is not are always…

main origin of the renaissance was that scholars proclaimed that they were re-awakening classical Roman culture” (History.com) Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15th, 1452 near a Tuscan town if Vinci, he apprenticed the sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio. “In 1478 became…

Leonardo da Vinci was intellectually well-rounded and produced masterpieces of art, scientific investigation, and architecture throughout his long life. “Learning never exhausts the mind.” These are some of the wise words of Leonardo da Vinci. This particular quote personally stands out to me because da Vinci never let up on learning until the day he died, he just always kept it up. This love of learning, consequently, cultivated his fascination and close studies of the human anatomy. Da Vinci…

The Virgin and Child with St. Anne (Fig. 1) was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci on 1510. The painting depicted St. Anna, her daughter the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus. Michelangelo Buonarroti’s Roma Pietà (Fig. 2) was created on around 1499. The sculpture depicted the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus, most often found in sculpture. Mary and Jesus are shown in both of these two artworks but in a different period of their life. Christ is shown sliding off his mother’s knee and…

time of Leonardo’s birth was called Anchiano, Tuscany. Leonardo only received education in basic reading, math, and writing, but his father appreciated his talent for art and apprenticed him around the of 15 to the famous sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio, of Florence. Around 1482, he began to paint his first work called The Adoration of the Magi, for Florence’s San Donato, a Scopeto monastery. Leonardo never completed that piece,…

The contrast between George Segal’s “Blue Woman in Black Chair” and Tom Claassen’s “Untitled (Large Man) is evident as soon as you see both of them in the same room together. George Segal’s sculpture, which he made in 1981, depicts an older, blue colored woman sitting in a chair and staring at the floor. The sculpture Tom Clause made in 1999 appears to be a large, inflated man sitting with his back against the wall and looking down at his lap. Both sculptures are humanoid, but they are so…

“The Last Supper” or you can call it the spiritual painting. This painting revolves around Christ and the 12 Apostles. In this paper I will be explaining "The Last Supper," by Leonardo Da Vinci. I chose Da Vinci's The Last Supper since it's a work of art that I am familiar with. I've seen copies of it before, and it's very well known. You can ask anyone about it, and almost everyone has heard of it and is familiar with what it looks like. It's much cherished, and is an extremely well known piece…

in Vinci, Italy, Leonardo da Vinci was the epitome of a ‘Renaissance man’” (Leonardo Da Vinci Biography). When he was about fourteen years old, as was custom during the time to work under the apprenticeship of a master, da Vinci studied under Andrea del Verrocchio. While in his apprenticeship he learned, “metalworking, leather arts, carpentry, drawing, painting, and sculpting” (Leonardo Da Vinci Biography). One of his first independently commissioned pieces was “Adoration of the Magi”. In…

same thing. With the two poems I am speaking of, Porphyria's Lover written by Robert Browning and Lady of Shalott written by Lord Tennyson, are the same in his many ways as they are different. This is like comparing two great works of art the Mona Lisa and the Starry Night both have beauty in their own ways. But you can't challenge either one about being more beautiful than the other is the retaliation will get from the art loving community. The same could be said about these two poems how they…

One of today’s most favored and prestige paintings would have to be the last super by Leonardo da Vinci. This painting was discovered between the years of 1495-1498, De Vinci was a famous artist during the Renaissance error. The last supper painting was the first visible picture of Christ that anyone has seen. The reaction of this painting was pure madness across the city. Emotions were running high with feelings ranging from sadness to pure joy each time a pair of eyes landed upon this painting…