Piero di Cosimo

other parts of Italy and retired from his work, settling down in Florence, as the Medici family was still paying him for his work. He later died in Florence in 1466 of unknown causes and was buried in San Lorenzo, close to where his longtime friend – Cosimo de Medici. Some of the images created by Donatella during his best years in art include David – both marble and bronze, Mary Magdalene, Judith and Holofernes, crucifixion, Jeremiah, Abraham and Isaac among other artworks Florence is one of…

Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452. Leonardo was one of the most talented artist of all time,also a great inventor.Leonardo had a striking figure.He was a son of Ser Piero da Vinci Leonardo was very proud of his looks. He received no formal education beyond basic reading, writing and math, but his father appreciated his artistic talent . He had eleven other siblings.Later on, Leonardo worked in a workshop named Andrea Del Verrocchio as a teenager. He painted , made clay models and was…

Renaissance is the significant era in the cultural history of Europe, which came to replace the earlier Middle Ages and was before the Enlightenment. A distinctive feature of the Renaissance is the secular nature of culture and its humanism and anthropocentrism (i.e. the interest, first of all, to the man and his activities). It was also blooming the interest towards the ancient culture, it was as the ‘rebirth’ of the culture (Brotton). The term ‘Renaissance’ has found among the Italian…

I. Thesis Statement: Throughout the Elizabethan Era, clothing was used to establish the social class of men and women, to exhibit various styles of dress, and to show one’s interests through distinctive jewelry. II. During her reign, Queen Elizabeth authorized multiple sumptuary laws regarding the designs and materials used in her subjects’ clothing so that one may easily distinguish the diverse social rankings. A. These laws also filled the purpose of prohibiting “[the queen’s subjects] from…

Leonardo da Vinci was an artist, mathematician, inventor, and writer. “Born on April 15, 1452, in Vinci, Italy, Leonardo da Vinci was the epitome of a ‘Renaissance man’” (Leonardo Da Vinci Biography). When he was about fourteen years old, as was custom during the time to work under the apprenticeship of a master, da Vinci studied under Andrea del Verrocchio. While in his apprenticeship he learned, “metalworking, leather arts, carpentry, drawing, painting, and sculpting” (Leonardo Da Vinci…

Both John Pope-Hennessy's The Portrait in the Renaissance and Patricia Simons's Women in Frames: The Gaze, the Eye, the Profile in Renaissance Portraiture discuss the ways in which portraiture during the Quattrocento was used to inform the public. Portraiture during this time was used to inform and educate the public, establishing both political and social standing. Simons responds to Pope-Hennessy's article with a strong argument: portraits of women had different connotations than those of men.…