Mona Lisa

became an apprentice to a famous artist name Verrocchio. This is how he learned about art, drawing, painting, and more. Leonardo da Vinci’s full name is, Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci. He was the person who had created the renaissance man and the mona lisa. Leonardo da Vinci died on May 2, 1519 in Amboise, France. Not very many people even know who da Vinci is. Or they know who he is and doesn’t even care for him or his successes. This is going to most likely change their opinions. Da Vinci…

of motion to concentrate the viewer 's eye of the woman, or Mona Lisa. This strategy gives the eyes of Mona Lisa the misconception that her eyes follow you which is one reason the painting is so popular among many others. Da Vinci also used the principle of emphasis for this painting. Emphasis is created by visually reinforcing something that the artist wants the viewer to pay attention to. In this painting the emphasis was put on Mona Lisa, the woman pictured. If you were to take a look at the…

I have calculated and studied the golden ratio over a week for the following artworks: The Vitruvian Man: Man in Action (Leonardo Da Vinci, 1490), Mona Lisa (Leonardo Da Vinci, 1517), and The Mond Crucifixion (Raphael, 1503). With the data I have collected a number of mathematical processes will be used to analyze the data: a chart displaying the raw data collected over a week of the number of hits on…

Andrew Smith How the Visual Arts Communicate The Sculpture of the Pietà by Michelangelo and the Painting of The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci are both famous artworks from the High Renaissance period. The Mona Lisa was created between 1503 and 1506, and the Pietà was created between 1498 and 1499. The Pietà is currently housed in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, and the Mona Lisa is currently housed in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The sculpture of the Pietà by Michelangelo shows the…

three big projects the Mona Lisa, the last supper, and discovered a universal language. Da Vinci painted a world famous painting called the The Mona Lisa. Mona Lisa embodied all the Renaissance discoveries of perspective, anatomy, and composition. The portrait of the Mona Lisa set the standard for high Renaissance paintings in many important ways. "The use of perspective that Da Vinci had used on the Mona Lisa with all converging on a single vanishing point behind Mona Lisa's head, and…

During the movement there was many pieces created that could be considered the embodiment of the entire movement. But, the ready-mades and pieces created by Marcel Duchamp brought Dada into the spotlight and eventual acceptance into the contemporary art community. One famous piece created by Marcel Duchamp that shocked the world was the ready-made urinal titled, “The Fountain.” The piece was extremely sarcastic in nature and mocked previous sculptors (“Dada Movement, Artist...” 1). The…

It was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci which began in 1504 and he finished in 1519. Lisa Gherardini (Mona Lisa) her husband, Francesco Del Gherardini requested that Da Vinci to make a painting of Lisa. The purpose of this painting was to celebrate Lisa and Francesco new home and the birth of their second son. This painting is famous for many reasons. One of the reasons is because it was painted by one of the most famous…

in the work. Many other theories support hidden symbols and meanings such as the one stating that the Mona Lisa has a perfect of symmetry. Many say that this line of symmetry forms a chalice, pointing to an indirect hint to the myth of the Holy Grail. Another popular theory is that the Mona Lisa is a self portrait of Da Vinci himself. This is shown by the similarities found between the Mona Lisa and an actual portrait of Leonardo during a comparison. Another popular belief is the portrait…

cast in the film is very good, as Vinny and his girlfriend, Mona Lisa, truly embody the traits and behaviors of a pure New Yorker. Throughout the film, we see the cultural differences between urban New York and rural Alabama, as the way of life is very different in these two places. When Mona Lisa drives up to the court house, she says "I bet the Chinese food in this town is terrible”, which was uttered in true New York fashion. Mona Lisa, in addition to being a fashionista and hard core New…

Duchamp reproduced Leonardo Da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ on a postcard by altering the original feature of ‘Mona Lisa’ by sketching a moustache and a goatee over Mona Lisa’s lip and chin using a pencil. This humorously captures Duchamp’s perception on the classic representation of Mona Lisa, exposing his new interpretation of the artworld that ‘art’ is more than a visual product. The readymade was re-titled to L.H.O…