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    As my great work of art that inspired many other parodies I choose American Gothic by Grant Wood. The painting is one of the most recognizable and even people who do not know of the original will probably recognize one of the many versions of this painting. I think this is a great work of art for the simple fact that so much is going on in such a simple picture. The expressions on the faces and the posture they have. What are they thinking, why are they not both staring at the artist painting…

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    mechanism that is designed to fly, based on how a bat flies. He had other inventions, but that was the most famous one. His other inventions were still good and made a huge impact, most of his work did. He had a lot of accomplishments. He painted the Mona Lisa which is one…

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    The Sistine Chapel has amazing art pieces that are filled with mosaics on the floor and are painted with frescoes by early Renaissance artists. Michelangelo painted the artwork and completed it later on in his life and when revealed people admired and praised his work that seemed unrealistic because it didn't look like a painting. The nine scenes that are present in the ceiling move across the central panels representing the story of mand which also refers to the beginning of Chritianity and…

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    The European Renaissance was a cultural movement that lasted from the 14th to the 16th centuries. It was a cultural and social change revolution, that was characterized as ingenuity, imagination and creativity. This time of the year is known for the contribution to today’s society where many new artists find inspiration from Donatello, Raffaello Sanzio, Sandro Botticelli among other great contributors. Also during that time Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni and Leonardo di ser Piero da…

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    When you hear the name Leonardo da Vinci, you immediately think of a fascinating Renaissance artist, but before he emerged as a successful artist, he was just a man looking for someone to pay him to paint. Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452 near Vinci, Italy. He was a much loved child and his father’s only son. Leonardo was a brilliant child, so brilliant that, “he used to baffle his master with the questions and problems he raised.” Pg.22. Since he had such an astute mind, he ended up being…

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    16. 1924, Man Ray, Rayograph, American, gelatin silver print. TXT- These cameraless images called rayographs show the enigmatic quality of the white shadows of the partially revealed objects in everyday life to show the love for belief in ordinary things. It created dynamic images that seem to be playing shadows and light to have sort of a repetition. Page 182 CLS- He worked with airbrushes to create white figures on colored ground that was similar to a photogram, which was the beginning…

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    Yesterday when I was researching the major Renaissance artists da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael,and Brunelleschi I looked at their artwork and I was most impressed with leonardo’s. Leonardo da vinci was simply a genius in general and poetic sense . His painting, anatomy studying, and many sketches inventions. He lives up to his title of being the Renaissance man. By far in my opinion the coolest invention by da Vinci was his machine gun. The 33-barrelled organ was never built but it would have…

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    The supreme genius of the ages is also known as Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo is also known for his outstanding creations like The Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and Vitruvian Men. Leonardo da Vinci was one of the most successful man of his era. He could have been even more successful, but with the lack of Latin language a big barrier existed for him. Leonardo di Ser Piero da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in the republic of Florence, Italy and died on May 2, 1519. Leonardo da Vinci was,…

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    The average person uses a toilet an estimated 2,500 times each year (or six to eight times daily). As one of humankind’s most efficient and essential forms of maintaining sanitation and preventing disease, the flushing toilet was a byproduct of a special period in human history: the Renaissance. Including the influential invention of the flushing toilet, following the war-stricken period of Medieval Europe, the Renaissance was a time of great-accelerated change that gave rise to new, previously…

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    In the short time of 8 months after he arrived in Hobart and later on another offense this time of drunkenness, he was removed in December 1827 aboard the Prince Leopold to the secondary penal settlement at Macquarie Harbour. Details of Costantini’s life of this settlement are unclear. Stilwell supports that he was employed as a dispenser of medicines, and general assistant to the surgeon. Pearn notes that six surgeons served at Macquarie Harbour, a place where the extremely hard condition of…

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