Michelangelo Antonioni

creativity. Examples of this include art, literature and philosophy. The art was centralized around being more life-like and showing perspective. Artists like Michelangelo were able to show better human anatomy in paintings and statues with much more accuracy thanks to Leonardo Da Vinci (an artist as well as a scholar). The statue “David” from Michelangelo represents this perfectly. Not only was this a time of great artistic change, but literary change as well. Renaissance poetry and…

Jan van Eyck’s, Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife, was created during the midst of the early Renaissance, specifically the year 1434. But, it was not created in Italy along with the Renaissance. Instead, the ideas and rules of the place had spread, through various artists and trade, to places like Flanders. This oil on panel artwork, however is not like most portraits; in fact, this is a full-length double portrait. Many scholars and historians believe that this is one of the most complex early…

There are various examples of the Golden Ratio found in da Vinci’s The Last Supper, which was created between 1494 and 1498 and is located at the Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. The PhiMatrix software has been used to show the various occurences of the Golden Ratio in da Vinci’s The Last Supper: In yellow, the ratio of the depth of the table to the space shown below the table corresponds to the proportions of the Golden Ratio. Additionally, the rectangle in the…

Think of a time where people saw that they were in control of their own destinies, where they saw that they can achieve great things. Is that hard to imagine? Believe it or not, there was a period where people possessed these ideals. This time was called the Renaissance. During the Renaissance, many cultural changes took place, taking place in aspects of religion, art, architecture, science, and medicine. The Renaissance mostly took place in Italy. The word “Renaissance” itself is derived…

Jackson Pollock and John Cage are both well known artist often known by the nickname of JP and JC. Both of these monumental figures have shaped the way that we view and make art now a days. Without these two monumental art figures, the art we know and love today would be very much different. Both of these artist share fantastic attributes that make them great and also…

Four progressive eras of art are//There are numerous amounts of eras dealing with art; some of the more highlighted periods are Early Renaissance, High Renaissance, Gothic, and Medieval. Each era contributed timeless art pieces and their influences are still being researched and understood today. All of the Eras also helped individuality flourish through art. The creative pieces produced during these periods helped future artist to expand their work, too. Medieval Era occurred during the Middle…

world.” Humanism was introduced and spread by Francesco Petrarch, the “father of humanism,” as well as several other humanists. Platonism was briefly revived, and a new form of art called mannerism was popularized by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Overall, the new styles of art, the rise to new secular and scientific values, the beginnings of the approach to reality, and the growth of city-states…

The Renaissance The period that came right after the Middle Ages was known as the Renaissance. According to Mr.Dowling, “ The Renaissance was the birth place of modern history”. During the Renaissance Europe saw a plethora of values come back to life from Rome and Greece . New technologies were developed like the Printing Press. People wanted to know so much about the world around them so they sailed away on ships and new continents were discovered. Art was especially big during this time…

Painter, sculptor, architect, and poet Michelangelo, one of the most famous artists of the Italian Renaissance, was born Michelangelo di Ludovico Buonarroti Simoni on March 6, 1475, in Caprese, Italy. Michelangelo was the second of five sons to his father, Ludovico Buonarroti, and mother, Francesca di Neri di Miniato del Serra. His mother became ill and in result Michelangelo was entrusted to a wet nurse in Settignano who belonged to a family of stonemasons. He later joked, “With my wet nurse’s…

Sir John Isaac Thornycroft (1843-1928) was a British Naval architect, engineer, and founder of the shipbuilding institution, John I Thornycroft & Company Limited. He is noted for having partially designed and built the first Royal Naval torpedo boat as well as designing and improving upon the machinery involved in this class of ship. Thornycroft is also credited with modifying the hull and propeller designs of naval ships as well as designing ship stabilizers. In particular Thornycroft's…