Michelangelo Antonioni

Michelangelo was one of the leading figures of the Renaissance during the late 15th and the first half of the 16th century. He was primarily a sculptor, but he was very talented in paintings and poetry. His talents were so apparent, that he earned the attention and patronage of Lorenzo de Medici, the leader of the Florentine Republic. The background of Michelangelo’s early life would play a large role in his rise to becoming a famous Renaissance artist. A. Michelangelo a. Born to middle class…

Michelangelo’s David is one of the most-recognizable work in art history. This work does not only represents the High Renaissance period, it’s also one of the best during that time. Why is Michelangelo’s David culturally significant? What does its subject matter, theme or style tell us about the High Renaissance culture that produced it? The term Renaissance, literally means "rebirth" and is the period in European civilization immediately following the Middle Ages, conventionally held to have…

Art: The work of Leonardo da Vinci on perspective, light, shadows, and color in painting When Leonardo da Vinci was born, he was apprenticed to a sculptor and painter named Verrocchio. As he learned, he learned to surpass his own master and become a master of all that he had learned. Leonardo was nothing short of a genius. Leonardo was a mathematician, botanist, architect, civil and military engineer, town planner, hydrologist, and cartographer. He drew upon art in discovering science and used…

(that is, one vanishing point) and actual well-volumized figures in such a space. Indeed, near the close of the 15th century, linear perspective was in wide use by a myriad of classical artists, including such great artists as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Linear perspective continued to see effective employment even post-renaissance in the works of such famous artists as Vermeer; his painting, The Milkmaid, makes effective use of subtle one-point perspective to create believable space…

The Renaissance was a period of big change in European history. The word “Renaissance” means rebirth or revival and it was used to describe a period in Europe that began around 1350 and lasted about through 1700. The Renaissance changed man’s view of the world through art, literature, and science. The immense amount of changes made since the Middle Ages to the Renaissance was a remarkable period of time for all humans around the world. The purpose of this paper is to explain how the change in…

The historical period that followed the middle ages was the Renaissance, known as the rebirth of education and advancements. The Renaissance spread to Germany, France, England, and Spain in the late fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries. Although there was trouble at the time with political stability and growing prosperity, the development of new technologies including; the printing press, and a new system of astronomy, were huge advancements during the Renaissance. The printing press was one…

Throughout the course of human civilizations, people have turned to art as a form of expression for emotions, events, and representation of people and places. These works come in different forms such as paintings, theatre, literature and architecture. Many of these great works are preserved for future generations, while others are destroyed over time. Out of all artworks that have been created the best and most deserving of preservation are The Mona Lisa, Everyman, The Epic of Gilgamesh and The…

Honor means in the dictionary high respect; esteem. My definition of honor is a role model of some kind that you have high respect for. Leonardo Pisano, better known as Fibonacci, was born in 1170 in Pisa which is a city of Italy. He was the son of Guilielmo and Alessandra. One of his accomplishments was the Fibonacci Sequence. The Fibonacci Sequence is a series of numbers where the last two numbers equal the next number. Like 1,1,2,3,5,8,13 and so on. You can calculate it by this formula, F(n)…

Michelangelo Buonarotti, a name that has become almost synonymous with the High Renaissance, is arguably one of the most skilled sculptor and artist of his time. Sculptures such as the Pietá was the reason why Michelangelo became a highly regarded sculptor. Pope Julius II saw that Michelangelo had talent and an aptitude for making captivating religious interpretations in the form of some type of artwork. What Julius II did not see was the prideful side of Michelangelo which made things difficult…

As the renaissance artist, sculptor and anatomist Leonardo da Vinci said, “A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.” This maxim, though easily comprehensible, epitomizes the perfection of the human form that fifteenth century artists sought to immortalize. Driven by common humanist beliefs, sculpting a lifelike physique demanded knowledge and comprehension of anatomy beyond the barrier of human skin. Leonardo da Vinci along with many other artists used their fascination with…