Mona Van Duyn

Legendary Beard Fact: Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the few artists never to leave behind a self portrait, but in every image executed by other, his magnificent flowing beard takes center stage. Leonardo Da Vinci was the bastard son of wealthy and well-respected lawyer Messer Piero Fruosinio de Antonio da Vinci and a peasant woman named Caterina. The birth took place on April 14, 1542 inn the hill town of Vinci in the Republic of Florence. He received virtually no formal education, until he was…

Piero della Francesca Outline Piero della Francesca exemplifies the Renaissance Era by being one of the first artist in the renaissance to capture realistic facial expressions that have emotion in one's artwork. Also he mastered the art of perspective combining it with a blend of colors creating beautiful art. Source 1: “Piero della Francesca.” Britannica School. Encyclopedia Britannica, inc., 2015. Web. 8 Oct. 2015 Piero della Francesca was born around 1416/17, Sansepolcro, Republic of…

Introductions Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy. He was very brilliant and a leading artist. Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man was inspired by Vitruvius; a Roman engineer and architect during the first century B.C., shows how the proportions of the human body fit perfectly into a circle or a square. The drawing shows a man standing in a square, which is inside a circle and the man has two pair of outstretched arms and to pair of outstretched legs. Vitruvius’ theory was that a…

The 19th century American potter George Ohr (1857-1918) is an important ceramic artist associated with the American Arts and Crafts movement. With an emphasis on emotion, gesture and pure form, Ohr’s idiosyncratic clay vessels forecast Abstract Expressionist sculpture. His passionate personal, individual vision and rebellious, theatrical persona distinguish him as one of America’s most original and eccentric artists. Ohr was born in Biloxi, Mississippi to a blacksmith and learned the potter’s…

Leonardo da Vinci was born in Vinci, Italy on April 15, 1452. He was born out of wedlock to a young peasant woman, Caterina and his father Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci . Leonardo received a basic education but at a very early age it was evident he was artistic. He had interest in science, inventing, and painting. At the age of 14, he began an apprenticeship with artist Andrea del Verrocchio. He learned a great deal from Verrocchio about metalworking, carpentry, drawing,…

Alexander Calder came from a long line of artists. His mom was a painter, his dad and grandfather were both famous American sculptures. Since art was an everyday occurrence in Calder life, he grew up always loving to create things and was encouraged to do so. He even had his own little studio as a young child where he made his own toys. Even though he loved making things growing up, he never saw art as a career in his future. Calder wanted to do into engineering and his parents encouraged that…

Facts about Donatello Have you ever wondered how life would be if there would be no art, well, here’s some fun facts I bet you didn’t know about Donatello. He was a sculptor from Florence and he studied classical sculpture he inspired a lot of other artists such as Michelangelo and he also had several assistants, his best known works were mostly statues in a circle. But he developed a new, shallow type of work that had a large architectural relief. Also “Donatello was the son of Niccolo DI…

Donatello, a renaissance man What was the renaissance? The renaissance was a time period when art science and other things flourished. The renaissance itself means rebirth. It was a time when forms of art were becoming more prominent following a time of plague and death. The renaissance inspired and produced a multitude of many great and famous artists such and Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Donatello, Shakespeare and more. These important artists produced some of the most influential art of…

Fact Sheet for Famous Physicist Name of Physicist: Leonardo Da Vinci Date of Birth: April 15, 1452 Date of Death: May 2, 1519 Nationality: Italian Description of Childhood Upbringing/Early Years: He was raised in a farmhouse outside the hills of Tuscany. He lived with his father and stepmother till he was five, after those years spent with his father he moved to his father's family estate where he lived with his uncle and grandparents in Vinci. He lived in…

In the baroque era portraits of woman were not as common as portraits of men. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Alessandro Algardi and Guiliano Finelli all attempted sculpting a bust of three different women around the 1630’s, each brought their own unique style to the portrait. Bernini the most famous and renowned artist out the three set a precedent for sculptures and other artists would continually be compared to Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Alessandro Algardi and Guiliano Finelli are no exception to this,…