Mona Lisa

when he was on the streets making art. Warhol and him were pretty good friends and they worked off of each other to make very fun art that was easily sellable, as well as appealing to most audiences. A few pieces he made were Riding with Death, and Mona Lisa in the…

Paris Paris, known as the love city of the world, was not alwayss known as Paris. Its original name was Lutetia. Paris is the capital of France and the largest city in France. People from all around the world come to visit Paris to see the famous Eiffel Tower; however, they also come to learn french culture, see famous art, sample food, listen to the city’s sounds, and to see the city’s beautiful parks and gardens. When people are askeded where they would like to travel, Paris is normally at…

is one of the most illustrious tourism sites in the world. The Louvre is located in Paris, France and encloses some the most eminent pieces of art ever constructed. Founded in 1792, the Louvre is composed of preeminent works of art including the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, Liberty Leading the People, and The Raft of Medusa. Before the Louvre was founded it served as palace for approximately two centuries. It accommodated many noble figures of France including King Francis I, King Philip II, King…

Throughout the course of history, there have been many drastic changes in western culture, but perhaps two of the most well known expansions in art, science, and thinking in general, took place during the Renaissance and the Baroque periods. Though both of the said points in time undoubtedly each have their own merits, it is when both are examined simultaneously that one can witness the scope and magnitude that each affected the other. Perhaps one of the defining factors of both of these eras…

Modernism and the cold war can be regarded as the twin shaping forces on cultural production in the 1950s. When some ardent practitioners tried to move beyond modernist art, others retreated from it, but it remained the defining aesthetic paradigm of the decade. As historical mode modernism became institutionalised in the 1950s as established by the Nobel laureate trio comprising the modernist writers Faulkner, Eliot and Hemingway. Kitsch and modernism were deeply entangled during the period.…

The Renaissance was a time of enlightenment through art and literature. Illiteracy spread through Europe. In the Middle Ages people relied on the church and the Bible for an explanation of the world. In the 1300s, numerous serfs gained their freedom and they no longer relied on their lords. People moved into towns and took up trades which caused literacy to spread. The teachings of the church was questioned. Nevertheless, the humanism movement formed which valued the beauty and intelligence of…

footsteps of his father and become a great Medici. Cosimo de Medici’s favorite architect was Michelozz Michelangelo, and even Leonardo da Vinci. As an example of one of the artists that Cosimo de Medici supported, Da Vinci, he didn’t just paint the Mona Lisa, he also painted the painting, “The Lady With The Ermine.” The woman in this painting is Cecilia Gallerani, mistress of the Duke of Milan, and in the painting she is holding…

playing baseball, and so forth. Moreover, these words let other children speak of very interesting questions. For example, one child wonders if dinosaurs have butts or not and other child asks if the author knows that once there was a person who draw “Mona Lisa” on burnt bread.…

Leonardo da Vinci was an incredible artist and sculptor, an inventor ahead of his time, and an exceptional thinker. Da Vinci’s work far surpassed the standard of the period and thus landed him the nickname, “Renaissance Man.” He paved the way for modern innovations in art, science, and technology, making him one of the greatest thinkers of the Renaissance. Leonardo da Vinci was born the illegitimate son of a peasant woman and a notable man of Florentine, Italy in 1452. Da Vinci was raised by his…

push out powerful nobles and decrease the power the Church  Francis Valois I  Was an important monarch who used art to glorify France  Francis decorated palaces with the work of Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian  He built the Louver and bought Mona Lisa  Had a humanist education  Searched for classic texts  Ordered the New World voyages of Verrazano and Cartier in 1524  Made French the official language  King Charles VII  Used the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges (1438) to reduce the…