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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…

“Mona Lisa” by Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the most famous portraits in history. It is believed to have been created in 1503-1504. It is shrouded in mystery as no one really knows why it was painted. Although, art historians believe the portrait is of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Florentine cloth merchant Francesco del Giocondo, as the alternative name of the portrait is “La Gioconda.” Art historians also believe the portrait was either made in 1503 to commemorate Francesco del Giocondo and his…

Did you know a member of the Macnider family helped create the Mason City Public Library? Mason City is located in Iowa and the Mason City Public Library is now located on 225 2nd St SE. The Library is important in the history in Mason City because of the first attempts of a library, the first attempts of a public library, how May Hanford Macnider helped the library progress, the current library, and what was changed in the current library. In 1871, the first library was opened. That library…