Mona Lisa

medieval europe. Artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) had an endless curiosity that fed a genius for invention. He made sketches of nature and of models in his studio, and dissected corpses to learn how bones and muscles work. He also painted the Mona Lisa Artist Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)…

The Italian Renaissance was supposed to be an era of rebirth, a time when the focus started to shift from the church. Change, however, does not happen overnight, but slowly and gradually. The Italian Renaissance left behind glorious art that derived from wealth. The art was inspired by the very present religious ideology and the start of acceptance for something different during that time like humanism. Humanism is the idea that humans have great attributes too and not only divine figures. As a…

The Scream by Edvard Munch is an iconic painting in today’s time, much like the Mona Lisa has been in the past. Munch found his inspiration for this piece of art from an actual place located on a hill in Norway and at the bottom of the hill was the madhouse where Munch’s sister was kept. The painting is of a person with a ghostly face, standing beside a railing. What catches your eyes in this photo is the person is standing there shrieking, mouth wide open, with a hand on both sides of their…

Leonardo da Vinci has made a name for himself, to the extent that his numerous works are still studied throughout the world almost 500 years after his death. He was the jack of all trades, from being a proficient artist to ambitious engineer to a curious scientist. His works would be the foundation for modern art, human anatomy, and technology. Like his father before him, who had worked for powerful families, Leonardo’s works would do the same. Leonardo’s works were so prestigious, he would draw…

because he employing diverse materials such as surprising mediums, peanut butter and jelly, toys, diamonds, garbage and magazine clippings. He use photographic manipulation and unexpected materials in his photographs. For example, he make the “Double Mona Lisa” by peanut butter and jelly, and he used plastic toy soldiers for a Civil Right photograph. He said: “What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.” Waste Land is a…

there “Hey guys!!” lisa says with excitement. “ Hey Lisa!!!” The kids finally get here, you can here all their feet clattering on the bleachers. Sams two best friends Sean and Brandon go up, “ Sam was a caring person and it was a tragedy that we lost him but we wanted to remember him as who we knew him as. Sam excelled at basketball, he played at Oak Park High for all his four years. He was a great family member, friend and brother.” “ Its game time! USC vs. Yale!!” My mom, Mona my moms…

workshop. In 1485, when he was in Milan, Italy, the Duke of Milan named Ludovico commissioned Leonardo to make a painting of “The Last Supper.” In 1504, he went back to Florence and painted one of the most famous paintings, the “Mona Lisa.” In addition, no one knew who Mona Lisa was. In Leonardo’s final years, he returned back to Milan to work for the French rulers who ruled the city. One of his last commissioned works was a mechanical lion that could walk and open its chest to reveal a bouquet…

The Renaissance was a period of advancement in various subjects. It was a time of great intellectual inquiry into all the branches of learning and fields of study. Philosophers, scientists, mathematicians, and artists began to examine the world around them with a stronger and deeper want and need for understanding the universe in which they lived. These students of the world around them also showed a greater interest in the role of humanity within this boundless universe. From this there is an…

revealed to Jobs that he had a sister named Mona Simpson (Isaacson, 2011, p. 254) She was an upcoming writer living in Manhattan. They formed a friendship over time, and Jobs would sometimes come to her events. He even bought her lots of clothes one time, as they would sometimes have arguments about what she was wearing. (Isaacson, 2011 p. 256) Jobs however, did not want to see his father. His father, Abdulfattah Jandali, left Joanne five years after Mona was born. He had actually met Jobs…

mysterious Twenty and Four, and the reason why those names were kept secret” (Merril 2-3). Resistance of belief is present in The Smile by Ray Bradbury when the main character Tom, a young boy, resists the unusual societal rules, such as spitting on the Mona Lisa, because he admires its beautiful. And in Now Let Us Sleep by Avram Davidson, Harper opposed the killing and domestication of the Primitives that lived on a different planet because the killing served no purpose. However, others took…