Lisa Lopes

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…

Michelangelo Buonarroti was born on March 6, 1475 in Caprese, a little village in Tuscany, Italy. His father, Lodovico Buonarroti, was working briefly in the small village where his second out five sons was born with his wife, Francesca Neri and shortly after Michelangelo's birth, his family moved back to Florence because his father went back to working for the Florentine government. Michelangelo was placed with a family of stonecutters. He considered Florence to be his true home until the day…

Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa, Italy and died on January 8, 1642. He was born to the parents Vincenzo Galilei and Giulia degli Ammannati. Galileo’s father was a lutenist, composer, and music theorist. Galileo was the oldest of six children, although only three only siblings lived through infantry. His family was part of nobility but was not rich. They moved to Florence, Italy in the early 1570’s. Never marrying, Galileo had three children with Marina…

The elements of design are visual components that artist use to make their artwork. There are six primary elements of design and they include line, shape, mass/volume, perspective, texture and color. We use these elements of design to add more depth to our analysis of artwork. All of these elements can be seen in the painting After the Bath, Woman drying herself by Edgar Degas. The main lines in this piece are the vertical and diagonal lines where the floor and wall meet in the background. The…

The two of the most famous painting he had painted were the “last supper”, and “the mona lisa”. But Leonardo wasn’t just a painter he was also an inventor. Some of his inventions were, the tank, the helicopter, and the catapult. He used many techniques to paint and write. He used oils and dyes he loved to experiment with paints all the time…

Painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, The Mona Lisa debatably the most popular and well known work of art ever. Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the most famous artist around the world ever, and the most famous and well known Italian artist. The Mona Lisa is a painting of a woman by the name of Lisa Gherardini. Quickly after the turn of the century, Da Vinci was requested to do the painting by the husband of Lisa Gherardini, Francesco Del Giocondo. Due to Lisa’s countenance, the painting has become one of…

someone was asked to name a famous painting, they might say the Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa or La Gioconda, is a 16th century oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci. The Mona Lisa is also known as ‘La Gioconda’, a reference to her married name, or ‘La Joconde’, meaning ‘the happy one’ (Cris 2015). Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa between 1503 and 1506, in Florence Italy. The size of the painting is 77 x 53 cm. If a person were to go see the Mona Lisa painting, they would say “it is smaller than they…