Lisa Kudrow

Art is a diverse concept known throughout the entire world. It causes much controversy over the subject matter and what makes it considered art. Art can be very simple but also at times can be very complex, it can last a lifetime or even just a day. It can be a physical object or painting or it can be performance based. Artists are full of imagination, emotion, creativity, and most of all passion. Passion is what drives the artist to create the work and propel it forward into success. In this…

Leonardo’s Shadow takes place in the city of Milan that was a major city in the Renaissance in which the book’s time period is in (1497). In Milan, lives Leonardo da Vinci, who is a famous painting and is expected to paint the Last Supper for the duke (Ludovico Sforza) and church. The main character in the book is Giacomo, who is Leonardo’s servant. This book is about a boy named Giacomo who lost all of his memories and is the servant of Leonardo da Vinci. The main storyline is how Leonardo…

The discovery of King Tut's tomb, was the greatest archaeological find of the twentieth century, due to its relative completeness and lack of looting. In Carter gives a very detailed account of how the he and his team went about finding, preserving, and cataloging all of the wonderful treasures found in the tomb. He begins with describing the initial process of preserving any fragile pieces first, and then photographing everything for later reference. Carter then goes on to describe how they…

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST The Importance of Being Earnest is one of Oscar Wilde’s most well-known plays and is known for its witty humour and the mocking of the Victorian society. Satirizing of the Victorian views on marriage and the morals and standards of the upper class creates humour in The Importance of Being Earnest. This is supported by stylistic devices and wordplays. The characters in The Importance of Being Earnest, especially Lady Bracknell, mock the snobbism of the upper class…

Leonardo da Vinci created magnificent artwork that filled the world around him with life, making him one of the greatest Renaissance painters in history. He came to life April 15, 1452, in Tuscany, Italy. His father was Piero da Vinci, and his mother Caterina. They were not married, and Piero had affairs with multiple other women throughout his lifetime. Because of this, Leonardo had nearly fifteen half-siblings and four stepmothers. Every time he saw his mother, she was holding another baby.…

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a convention as “A way in which something is usually done, especially within a particular area or activity” (“Definition of Convention in English”). Conventions appear in every aspect of life, in both the past and the present. Conventions can be simple, such as setting a horror film on a stormy day or portraying women in media as a damsel in distress. Conventions tend to be more complex, and therefore more overlooked by the general public, in works of art…

Atmospheric perspective is designed to suggest a 3D space in the 2D space of the picture, and in which forms and objects distant from the viewer (Adams, 2003). This atmospheric perspective can be seen in the sky of the painting, the viewer cannot see anything distinct pass the mountain, but it is implied there is something beyond the mountains. The atmospheric perspective stretches the landscape of the painting, and makes the painting seem bigger than it actually is. Highlights in paintings are…

in discovering science and used science to explain art. He was always inventing and even predicted many inventions that were meant for our time. Leonardo perhaps might have asked how he could bring out the most beautiful painting, such as the Mona Lisa, or how something might better work to a simpler and better advantage…

is that nobody in particular inspired him he inspired many people in recent times to create a variety of different inventions. Another amazing thing about this man is that he drew many art projects on commission, A few exceptions to this is the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper which were drawn on his own time. Another cool fact is that he had 4 siblings. These are some of the fun facts about Leonardo da…

It is widely considered that Linear Perspective saw its first widely recognized application in the early 15th century by Filippo Brunelleschi, an architect and artist of Florence, Italy. Through an experiment involving the exact reproduction of the Florence Baptistry, Filippo was able to show the mathematical precision of his new-found method. A revolutionary technique, linear perspective employs aspects of mathematics to aid in producing convincing if not spot-on two-dimensional representations…