Mona Lisa

Technology has quickly developed over the past decade and has completely changed the way we live our lives. Communications with people around the world is only a simple key press away. Today millions of people have access to modern technology, from personal laptop to mobile devices. Not only has technology improved our lives, it has been greatly influenced by the fast development of contemporary art. Before artists depended on traditional mediums such as pencil, charcoal, or pastels but today…

Happiness is not easy to achieve; just like many wonderful, blissful feelings, the best of them are never easily come by. When we are young, we allow ourselves to enjoy the simplicity that life has to offer. It was carefree. However, as adults, to be truly happy, it’s laudable. Society and psychological human desire impedes us to achieve satisfaction, but it’s embedded within us to struggle. This same struggle to achieve happiness is only attainable, as portrayed in literature and films, through…

Michelangelo these artists were rivals towards each other. Leonardo was most famous for the Mona Lisa painting and Michelangelo was most famous for mainly for western art and he has created two of the most famous frescos in history. I am going to tell you their accomplishments and how they are alike and different. Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci is most famous for his painting the Mona Lisa. He has been called the father of paleontology and ichnology and architecture and is very…

do anything to avoid boredom," writes Anne Carson in her introduction to “Short Talks," and that is what she definitely did in her essay (140). Carson’s “Short Talks” essay is about random topics, such as, “On the Rules of Perspective,” “On the Mona Lisa,” and “On Shelter,” and her brief thoughts on them (141,142,143). Depending on the reader’s definition of ’boredom ’the reader will either find her essay intriguing or absolutely appalling. Based on the reader’s impression while reading “Short…

Buoninsegna, the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Days of the Renaissance, and The March…

During World War I, a group of artists came together and began a new art movement created to show their distaste towards the war, and the ideas of nationalism and materialism. This movement came to be called Dada, which is said to mean ‘hobby horse’ in French by some, but known as just baby talk by others. It was known to use Shock Art, thrusting vulgar language and scatological humour into the eye of the public, who were displeased with the new artworks. The creators said that it wasn’t a…

change during The Renaissance? It changed because of 3 major things known as art, literature and religion. Art showed many different paintings from artists like Leonardo Da Vinci and Duccio Di Buoninsegna who created famous pieces of art like the “Mona Lisa”, and the “Madonna Enthroned Between Two Angels”. Literature showed people beauty of life in a god-like way. Religion/astronomy showed how the Heliocentric universe was more accurate than the geocentric universe. This essay will show you art,…

sculptors David. David was a over 18 foot marble statue of the Bible’s David from David and the Goliath this by far is one of Michelangelo’s best works. Da Vinci is known all around the world for being the man who created the Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa supposedly the portrait was for Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco Giocondo but other suspicions believe it is Da Vinci’s beloveded mother. The artist’s work is admired from all around the world for being some of the best artwork in the Renaissance…

am here today to hopefully inform you about Leonardo da Vinci. Today, I’m going to inform you on Leonardo da Vinci’s personal life, his most famous paintings, and just who is the mysterious Mona Lisa. Leonardo da Vinci Who is Leonardo da Vinci? You’re probably thinking, “He was a painter who painted the Mona Lisa.” You are absolutely right, except he wasn’t just a painter. He was an architect, an engineer, a sculptor, an inventor, and many other things as well. Leonardo was born in Anchiano, a…

taking several years to complete! Among these are ‘Annunciation’, a depiction of angels and a young girl; ‘The Last Supper’ a mural showing the last supper of Jesus and his disciples; And most famous, ‘Mona Lisa’, and depiction of a young girl relaxed with a misty landscape behind her. The Mona Lisa might have been the most revolutionary painting in history (zmescience.com). This painting took six years total to complete. It was one of the first relaxed portraits, and one of few with a misty…