Mona Lisa

To what Extent did Leonardo da Vinci Contribute to Math, Art, and Science? The Renaissance was a rebirth of Greek and Roman ideas, that took place in the late fourteenth through early seventeenth century. The rebirth of human reason began in Italy and particularly in Florence. Italy had been rapidly moving away from the medieval era. The Renaissance movement had begun on a scholarly level, with humanists writers, but was clearly linked with the scientific developments, change, and growth of…

The shifts in how Shakespeare has been consumed and distributed from early 19th century to today in the 21st century has been made possible through various aspects of social culture. These shift can be explained though three different approaches to how culture is consumed and produced. This paper will focus of comparing and contrasting two of them in analysis of the shift of Shakespeare. The two approaches this paper will focus on are art worlds and the production of culture perspective. This…

After watching "My Cousin Vinny", viewers understand that Billy Gambini and Stan Rothenstein accidentally shoplifted a can of tuna while stopping at a convenience store. After they leave the store, the clerk is shot and killed, and Billy and Stan are arrested in connection with the murder. Due to circumstantial evidence and a confession to shoplifting misconstrued as one to the shooting, Billy is charged with murder, and Stan is charged as an accessory. The pair call Billy's mother, who tells…

In the early 1500s, Pope Julius II ordered an artist by the name of Raphael to create one of the world’s most advanced artistic pieces of its time. Raphael’s “School of Athens” (among many others) establishes a new tone for Renaissance artists. As new color pallets arose and depth perception began to develop, Renaissance art began to parallel with its historical context through its complex societal concepts and profound artistic representations. In this painting, Raphael portrays historical…

Myriads of characteristics defined the art and music of the Renaissance. It was a time of exploration in both canvas and composition. First and Foremost, the Renaissance was a time where thinkers began to question the church, as well as rediscovering the roman idals. The art of the time period is the best physical example of this change. Looking from Medieval art to the art produced in the Renaissance, there are definitely extreme visual differences that set the Renaissance artists apart from…

Creativity throughout the years has changed greatly. Whether it was due to a change in scenery because of the growing ease of travel and the ever developing architectural scene. Change based on the social class and the shrinking gap between the upper and middle class, or the differing gender roles of times considerably influenced the creativity in all of history, and still today. With all of this progress in creativity in the arts, music, literature and so on, it seems that we are reverting…

As William Bernbach once said, “An important idea not communicated persuasively is like having no idea at all.” It is true that the importance of writing persuasively on crucial matters is clear in many areas of life. One of the most important subjects about which it is important to write persuasively is politics. This is because of the way the media, especially when it comes to conspiracy theories, is constantly trying to persuade the people to believe different things, and the only way to make…

Author, Kate Chopin, in her novel, The Awakening, composes a story about a woman named Edna who is in a passionless marriage and is realizing her sexuality. Director, Mike Newell, in his film, Mona Lisa Smile, illustrates a story about a woman named Katherine who is an art professor at Wellesley College teaching female students about breaking out of society’s roles. Chopin’s purpose is to bring to light to how some housewives felt trapped in the lives they were supposed to live during the 1890’s…

civilian talents as museu directors, curators, art historians, archaeologists, architects, and educators to save, quite literally, Western civilization's treasures.” After all, the Monument Men evacuated 400,000 works from the Louvre, including the Mona Lisa, which they shuttled to safety six times. The Monument Men began the serious task of conservation, restoration, and restitution. In all, they restored and returned to their rightful owners more than five million works of art, including the…

For many years, science and art has played a major role in the development in humanity likewise society. Science deals with discovering and understanding the nature of how the environment behaves and operates as well as the outside world by using reason and concrete evidence in order to evaluate and reach a conclusion to something that will benefit the humanity for generations whereas art applies various types of techniques and colors by means of establishing emotion and instinct to the mind and…