Mona Lisa

Michael Angelo, Filippo Brunelleschi, who changed the world, as we know it now. Specific people I think changing the world was Leonardo De Vinci. He was an artist, scientist, sculptor, architecture, and an engineer. He gave us painting such as the Mona Lisa, and the Last Supper. He designed countless weapons, all more advanced for his time. Christopher Columbus whom we were told through history books and printouts, discovered America. He brought vegetables (food) back that was never seen or…

When most people think of Leonardo Da Vinci they generally connect him to painting or the arts, but Da Vinci was much more than just an artist, in his life time he only created twenty paintings. It’s said that Da Vinci filled his notebooks with almost every conceivable topic, as British art historian Kenneth Clark said he was “the most relentlessly curious man in history.” Leonardo Da Vinci was a painter, an inventor, an architect, an astronomer, an anatomist and so much more. Leonardo Da…

Printmaking is an art form that involves the creation of a master piece of artwork from which multiple images are made. These prints are considered original works of art even though they can exist in multiples. This art is one of the oldest forms of art in the world. Historically, printmaking was used to spread religious ideas or images. The process originated in China at around 105 A.D. but it did not gain more use in Europe until around the mid-15th century. Printmaking today is practiced as…

INTRODUCTION In the history of human evolution, art is an indispensable item, whether it is from prehistoric times to the present 21st century. Whether period or modern apes, humans are inseparable and art. Can be found everywhere in life is not the same art, perhaps a modern or perhaps handed down from ancient times. In modern times, art history has become a discipline dedicated to teaching people how to assess and explain the basis of the works of art on their own perspective. Through a…

the medieval times and brought back the classical style of the Greeks and Romans in their works. For example, Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Mona Lisa” shows shading techniques to give a representation of where she is in relation to the backgrounds and different shading techniques were used to show the realism and her beauty through portrait. Many who see “The Mona Lisa” are drawn in by this style and I believe this was the goal of da Vinci. I believe he wanted to show her innocence and her beauty by…

Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic Gothic: Walter Pater, Dark Enlightenment, and The Picture Of Dorian Gray Main Thesis Wilde uses several echoes within The Picture of Dorian Gray. This central argument is supported by several examples of Dorian Gray acting as double to not only several characters within the novel but within mythology as well. Wilde merges the Gothic and the aesthetic in the book. “The merger is possible, and inevitable, because of the tendency of Gothic writing to present a fantastic…

closer look and learn more about him to figure out was he was so troubled. Along with him sparking my interest the artist Leonardo da Vinci jumped out at me when talked about in class. This man is so well known and so famous for his painting of the Mona Lisa which was a marvelous piece, but learning about how he learned to paint people in certain ways made me think of him in a completely new way. I was so shocked when I heard that he would take people that were in the hospital on their deathbed…

of the city and find elsewhere to live. He lived in venice for a short period of time befoere he returned back to Florence. While living in Venice though, he painted multiple multiple portraits. His most famous and well known painting is the “Mona Lisa”. Leonardo da Vinci soon returned back to Milan in 1506 and he stayed there until 1513. This was follwed up by being based in Rome for three years. He received an invitation in 1517. The invitation was of the French King Francis I, then…

The novel follows a symbologist, Robert Langdon and a cryptologist, Sophie Neveu as they unravel the mystery behind a murder related to the secret of the Holy Grail, which involves Opus Dei and the Catholic Church. It presents a world infiltrated with secret societies desperately intent on suppressing precious information. Their secrecy is threatened by art connoisseurs and cryptology experts, who seek to unravel the mystery of the murder of a prominent figure connected to another secret…

Medium- Medium refers to the material used to create a piece of artwork. Most artworks are created for different purposes and to tell distinctive stories and by using various mediums the artist can achieve this. Two examples of unlike mediums include paintings and hand-colored prints. An interesting example of an unconventional medium is an artwork called “Maple Leaves on a River” created by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). This artist took a sheet of paper he had painted blue and let a chicken…