Lisa Ling

each time period has emerged to provide an accurate microcosm of the art movement. Two of the major eras are the renaissance area and the impressionism era. During the renaissance era, one of the most famous painting ever was created, called the Mona Lisa. Over 300 years later, in the late 1800s, Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh was created during the impressionism era. Those two paintings have many similarities and differences, including the artists, styles, and eras. Vincent Van Gogh was very…

Facts about Donatello Have you ever wondered how life would be if there would be no art, well, here’s some fun facts I bet you didn’t know about Donatello. He was a sculptor from Florence and he studied classical sculpture he inspired a lot of other artists such as Michelangelo and he also had several assistants, his best known works were mostly statues in a circle. But he developed a new, shallow type of work that had a large architectural relief. Also “Donatello was the son of Niccolo DI…

Donatello, a renaissance man What was the renaissance? The renaissance was a time period when art science and other things flourished. The renaissance itself means rebirth. It was a time when forms of art were becoming more prominent following a time of plague and death. The renaissance inspired and produced a multitude of many great and famous artists such and Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Donatello, Shakespeare and more. These important artists produced some of the most influential art of…

Fact Sheet for Famous Physicist Name of Physicist: Leonardo Da Vinci Date of Birth: April 15, 1452 Date of Death: May 2, 1519 Nationality: Italian Description of Childhood Upbringing/Early Years: He was raised in a farmhouse outside the hills of Tuscany. He lived with his father and stepmother till he was five, after those years spent with his father he moved to his father's family estate where he lived with his uncle and grandparents in Vinci. He lived in…

In the baroque era portraits of woman were not as common as portraits of men. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Alessandro Algardi and Guiliano Finelli all attempted sculpting a bust of three different women around the 1630’s, each brought their own unique style to the portrait. Bernini the most famous and renowned artist out the three set a precedent for sculptures and other artists would continually be compared to Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Alessandro Algardi and Guiliano Finelli are no exception to this,…

ruly celestial was Leonardo da Vinci,” said the 16th-century art writer Giorgio Vasari. That verdict has stood for centuries. No one has ever doubted Leonardo’s genius, and in our own time his fame is greater than ever. We should probably therefore have some sympathy for experts so besotted with his name, fame and magic that they foolishly declared an obvious fake to be the real thing. La Bella Principessa is a profile portrait of a young woman in late 15th-century dress with her copper hair…

The Last Supper is painted by Leonardo Da Vinci in 1495-1498. This painting is painted on the wall of the refectory Santa Maria delle Brazie with a size of 30 feet by 14 feet. It is a Christian art painting of the Italian Renaissance period. Some of the things being presented here, that I’ve observed; there are 13 men sitting around a rectangular room with a recessed panel in a ceiling and wall decoration on either side of the room. I would assume they are in a high building as I see a…

Frank Lloyd Wright is widely considered as one of the greatest architects in the history of the world and the “greatest modern architect in American history” according to the American Institute of Architects. The quote above just shows how much he thought architecture could change the world and how he wanted people to see his architecture. Wright was not only an American architect, he was also an interior designer, writer and educator. He designed over 1000 structures of which 532 were built,…

LAS MANINAS is one of the world’s most famous paintings and perhaps the most talked about through history. Las Meninas has long been perceived as a standout amongst the most imperative pieces in Western craftsmanship history. The Las Maninas was done in 1656 by the famous Spanish leading artist of the Spanish golden age “Diego Velazquez”. This painting was created in Spain in the Alcazar palace in Madrid. In this naturalistic western masterpiece the artist used the oil on canvas. He was…

Leonardo da Vinci was motivated by a determination to express reality, in his life doing all that he could discover and create it. He had manuscript notebooks which contained notes, doodles, lists, and sketches of many accurate studies of the human body such as a fetus and a human skeleton. Da Vinci was an incredible Renaissance man who became a member of the Guild of Saint Luke, he was interested in carpentry, leather arts, metalworking, sculpting, and drawing with many diverse interests. He…