Lorenzo Da Ponte

Leonardo da Vinci is indefinitely one of the most important artists there is in all history. With his artistic styles, skills and discovery, he impinged the art industry most specifically in his time period the Renaissance, and remained influential even in the contemporary years. His works, which captures nature in the most realistic form of its time, and which emphasizes the importance of aesthetics combined with geometrical composition that purposefully pleases the eye, succeeded to grant da…

and sciences have so much in common that it strikes me as funny when people think the two are at odds with each other. Throughout history, many of the great minds in science also were artists” (Shiavelli). A perfect example of this merger is Leonardo da Vinci. He was considered to be the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. He was successful in both STEM and humanities with many works to…

Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. Leonardo was the polymath of his time and is well known internationally. The biography I read was titled Leonardo da Vinci and was written by Sherwin B. Nuland. Sherwin B. Nuland is a surgeon, writer, educator at Yale, and a Leonardo da Vinci enthusiast. Nuland spent twenty years on a quest to unearth the life of Leonardo da Vinci. During…

The Renaissance was the start of the new developments and the branching away from religious paintings. "Rebirth" was the nickname and the French translational for Renaissance. The Renaissance was mainly about literature and learning as said in this quote: “By the term Renaissance (" New Birth"), used in its narrower sense, is meant that new enthusiasm for classical literature, learning, and art which sprang up in Italy towards the close of the Middle Ages…” (“The Renaissance”). This time period…

Humanism The Italian Renaissance (1330-1550) was a period of great cultural change and achievement that is often characterized by the philosophy of humanism and an increasingly secular outlook. Humanism was a distinct movement that broke away from the previous belief that humans had no control over their destiny. Humanists believed that human beings could make meaningful choices about their lives and destiny, and most importantly, that humans were inherently good. During the Renaissance,…

Life 's Journey Everyone knows that life is hard, and sometimes people make mistakes. To move past what they have done and better themselves one must look at the mistakes in their past and see fault in oneself . Dante Alighieri wrote the epic Dante 's Inferno when he was 35 years old and going through a midlife crisis He was going through a rough time, as he had just been tricked into being exiled from Florence Italy, his home he loved. He wanted to move on with his life and grow as a person…

pyramid structures came into use by Francesca and Alberti, paintings were ready to carry better-recognized spiritual concepts as a result of the paintings became more clear and more vivid well. Lastly, artists within the High Renaissance like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Titian, and Raphael developed paintings within the narrative style that illustrated the body in an exceedingly additional scientific and natural manner, so demonstrating the assorted aspects of each day life.…

crossed your mind? The painter, Leonardo da Vinci, is household name. His work, especially The Mona Lisa, is still admired, studied and copied by many. The Louvre has over 70,000 pieces of artwork, yet crowds flock to see da Vinci’s the 21 by 30 inch painting of the mysterious women with an enigmatic smile.We all know Leonardo da Vinci and The Mona Lisa, but little to nothing is known about the women who made this painting possible. Who was she? Why was da Vinci so captivated by her? Does it…

The 16th-century artist Leonardo da Vinci produced what is perhaps the utmost famous painting in the history of Western art. The net worth of the painting is in the billions of dollars. The art quality produced looks comparable to a real person and it is a portrait of a woman named Lisa Gherardini she was married to Francesco Del Giocondo. The smile of the woman remains quite a mystery to countless people it is dated back to the 16th century before painter Leonardo da Vinci died. The painting…

one. Leonardo da Vinci was the most influential Renaissance man. There is evidence that supports the idea of Leonardo’s surpassing influence, even to today. Many of Leonardo’s inventions, ideas, and understandings of the world still hold true to this day and paved the road for modern…