Information ■ Birth name: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci ■ Born: April 15‚ 1452 (Vinci‚ Republic of Florence present-day Italy) ■ Died May 2‚ 1519 (Age 67 Amboise‚ Kingdom of France) ■ Nationality: Italian ■ Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter‚ sculptor‚ architect‚ musician‚ scientist‚ mathematician‚ engineer‚ inventor‚ anatomist‚ geologist‚ cartographer‚ botanist‚ and writer. ■ Leonardo da Vinci was the love child of a landowner
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Exhibition review Title of Assignment: Painting at the Court of Milan by Leonardo Da Vinci We recognize what Renaissance is‚ as a cultural movement‚ economic‚ and social development‚ furthermore‚ there are number of expression of it. However much it could say‚ it is likely to be defined as only 1 word‚ “Leonardo Da Vinci” (“April 15‚ 1452 – May 2‚ 1519”)‚ who worked out diversely many ways in the Renaissance period. This great exhibition (“Painter at the
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Professor Hall ENGL 2010 22 January 2013 Be Like da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci brought forth information that has helped shape the way that we think today. Art‚ science‚ and philosophy have been ever influenced by the “genius.” The contributions from him are endless. Leonardo was the first that looked into and documented neurophysiology. He gave us reasons backed up by evidence as to how the brain processes many of its sensory information. Leonardo started looking at anatomy as early as 1487. His
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Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a painter‚ architect‚ inventor‚ and a scientific student. He was such a natural genius that he embodied the term “Renaissance man.” Today he is best known for his art‚ including two paintings that are the world’s most famous and admired‚ Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Using a technique called "hatching"‚ he worked by sketching in series of short‚ quickly-drawn parallel lines. He also developed various personal drawing tricks‚ including curved
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Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452 . Born out of wedlock in Vinci‚ Italy (just outside Florence)‚ Leonardo’s illegitimate standing kept him from receiving a good education and excluded him from the most lucrative occupations. However‚ such limitations never hindered (and perhaps even fueled) da Vinci’s desire for knowledge and great ambition. At the age of 15‚ da Vinci became the apprentice of the painter Andrea del Verrochio in Florence‚ where his skills as an artist developed‚ flourished and even
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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter‚ sculptor‚ architect‚ musician‚ mathematician‚ engineer‚ inventor‚ anatomist‚ geologist‚ cartographer‚ botanist‚ and writer. His genius‚ perhaps more than that of any other figure‚ epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man‚ a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination". He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters
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Peter Paul Rubens was the painter of the first part of the Seventeenth Century in Catholic Europe. How he became so is an interesting story. Rubens was educated to be a humanist but like all great artists choose his profession for himself. The combination of first rate classical education with innate visual genius made for an unprecedented combination in an artist‚ which is what made him so great. It has been said that no artist has ever been as well educated as Rubens. After training with
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PETER PAUL REBUNS JUNE 28‚1577 – MAY 30‚ 1640 History of the Artist The most sought-after painter in northern Europe during the seventeenth century‚ Peter Paul Rubens‚ was also a diplomat‚ linguist‚ and scholar. His dramatic artistic style of the seventeenth century is now called "baroque‚" a term apparently derived at a later time from ornate jewelry set with irregular pearls. At its most exuberant‚ the baroque involves restless motion‚ startling color contrasts‚ and vivid
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The Last Supper‚ but perhaps his most important works involve the human anatomy. Da Vinci’s studies of the human body led to many advances in medicine and how the body worked and what it looked‚ like from the inside. He also made many advances and plant and animal structure which have led to many other scholars of the time to make their own discoveries about medicines which helped to increase life expectancy. Da Vinci lived from 1452 until 1519 and due to his diversity of study the phrase Renaissance
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Different inventions by Leonardo da Vinci: Armoured car – a forerunner to the tank: [pic] Leonardo wrote: ”I shall make covered chariots‚ which are safe and cannot be assaulted; cars‚ which fear no great numbers when breaking through the ranks of the enemy and its artillery. Behind them‚ the infantrymen shall follow‚ without fearing injury or other impediments.” Leonardo has an idea to sowing panic and destruction among enemy troops with an armoured car‚ which is a forerunner to the tank
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