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Da Vinci Chapter 7
Chapter 7: THE LIVES AND WORKS OF MASTERS IN VISUAL ARTS Reporter: Francis B. Corral BSECE II * Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
- an Italian master of the arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture, a draftsman, an accomplished engineer, and a pioneer investigator, in the natural sciences.
Life and works in painting * Born in 1452 in Vinci, Republic of Florence (now in Italy), Leonardo spent his youth in Tuscany and in 1469, went to Florence with his father . Shortly there after, he entered the studio of sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio as an apprentice, where he received a diversified training, until 1476. He worked with Verrocchio on the painting of the “ Baptism of Christ “
In 1492, Leonardo
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A year later, however, Michelangelo left tha master to study in Medici Gardens near San Marco, where Lorenzo, the Magnificent, had gathered a collection of ancient statues and had assigned Bertoldo, a follower Donatello, to train young men in sculture. During the Bologna sojourn, Michelangelo was undoubtedly influenced by the vigorous reliefs of Iacope della Quercia on the doors of the Cathedral of San …show more content…
* Studied art in Barcelona and then went to Paris on 1890. The paintings belonging to this period are poignant studies of poverty and suffering, examples: La Vie and the Old Guitarist. * 1905- He given up portraying the world of the poor. * Become interested in primitive African Sculpture in which human figures are broken up into geometric shapes. * Mid-1930s- he become concerned with social and political themes. In his symbolic etching Minotauromachy, he represented a personal vision of the struggle between the forces of evil and good. * Continued to paint in Paris despite the Nazi condemnation of the modern art during the World War 2. * 1944- he joined the French communist Party. * His notable works: Demoiselles au bord dela Seine, After Courbet, Bronze Monkey and Her Young.

* Vincent Van Gogh(1853- 1890) * Born in Groot Zuudert , North Brabant on March 30, 1853 to a Protestant Minister. * 1875- he visited museums and exhibitions while continuing reading the Bible in his free

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