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Leonardo Da Vinci And Michelangelo Comparison
Silvia Dupuy
Art: 101 Art Appreciation Instructor: Linda King April 29, 2013

With being talented artists of the renaissance both Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci had the dream of bringing art to its original form but with different perspectives on how to portray their art, Michelangelo and Leonardo demonstrated their creations differently? Michelangelo was borne on March 6, 1475 in Caprice Italy, his full mane was Michelangelo di Lodonico Buonarroti Simoni; his father was serving briefly as a magistrate in the small town where he had recorded the birth of his second son of five which he had with his wife, Francesca Neri. They returned to Florence while Michelangelo was still an infant during
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16-41). One of the judges Saint Bartholomew who was skinned alive, which holds the flying knife and the skin, these figures are huge and violently twisted. In those days Christ wrath and Judgment Day, was also hold out of hope; a group of save souls where selected and the crowd around Christ and the others on the far right figures appears with a cross, more likely the good thief, (Kleiner 2010). In another illustration the author describe with detail the intention of Michelangelo while he was painting The Last Judgment, here he discuss how the saint in a more vivid way was suffering; the details of (the eyes, the twist of the chest). The author assumed that this new work will bring the attention of the viewers and also the beauty of the work, more than the atrocity of the nails, ropes, and chains, (Barnes, B. …show more content…
Leonardo was one of the most prominent artist of the Renaissance who begging examining corpses, between his corpses and his painting, Leonardo created most of the wonderful painting during his time; which will be discuss as follow: The Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and also The Madonna of the Rock. The Mona Lisa is the world most famous portrait, according to Leonardo, Giorgio Vasari, Mona Lisa portrait was the wife of Francesco del Giocondo; her name was Lisa di Antonio Maria Gherardini, it was a contraction between ma domna, “my lady), (Kleiner 2010). According to the Renaissance etiquette which dictates that women should never look in to a man’s eyes; this portrait is a convincing representation of and individual, (Kleiner 2010). Leonardo Mona Lisa according to the author (page 46, fig. 17-5) sitter’s are still the subjects of the scholarly debate and the portrait is also a convincing representation of an individual, unlikely earlier portrait this one does not serve only as an icon of status but as a respected and novel woman and a serious look that makes the viewers wonders, who is Mona Lisa and what she represent in this portrait, (Kleiner

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