Raphael Holinshed

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…

Explore Sistine Chapel Tagline: explore the history of Sistine Chapel Page title: explore the history of Sistine Chapel Meta title: about Sistine Chapel Meta Description: Some important information and the history of Sistine Chapel. The Sistine Chapel is a famous place of the Apostolic Palace, where the Pope resides in Vatican City. The place is well known for its great history. Initially, this place was known as the Cappella Magna, now known as Chapel. Mainly, the site of the chapel is popular…

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,…

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…

Raphael: a jack of all trades, a factotum, a polymath, or a Renaissance man? No matter how you describe him, he is known to be one of the fathers of Renaissance art and architecture and one of the best painters of his time. He is skilled in many areas but is this enough to consider him a true Renaissance man? According to the article The “Renaissance Man” In order to be known as a Renaissance man, he must have meet at least three criteria out of four. Raphael Sanzio da Urbino holds many of the…

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,…

ruly celestial was Leonardo da Vinci,” said the 16th-century art writer Giorgio Vasari. That verdict has stood for centuries. No one has ever doubted Leonardo’s genius, and in our own time his fame is greater than ever. We should probably therefore have some sympathy for experts so besotted with his name, fame and magic that they foolishly declared an obvious fake to be the real thing. La Bella Principessa is a profile portrait of a young woman in late 15th-century dress with her copper hair…

The Last Supper is painted by Leonardo Da Vinci in 1495-1498. This painting is painted on the wall of the refectory Santa Maria delle Brazie with a size of 30 feet by 14 feet. It is a Christian art painting of the Italian Renaissance period. Some of the things being presented here, that I’ve observed; there are 13 men sitting around a rectangular room with a recessed panel in a ceiling and wall decoration on either side of the room. I would assume they are in a high building as I see a…

LAS MANINAS is one of the world’s most famous paintings and perhaps the most talked about through history. Las Meninas has long been perceived as a standout amongst the most imperative pieces in Western craftsmanship history. The Las Maninas was done in 1656 by the famous Spanish leading artist of the Spanish golden age “Diego Velazquez”. This painting was created in Spain in the Alcazar palace in Madrid. In this naturalistic western masterpiece the artist used the oil on canvas. He was…