Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa Mona Lisa or La Giaconda it is probably one of the most well known works of art in the world. It is one of the most copied‚ photographed‚ and reprinted works of art. I myself have her as a screensaver in my laptop. Throughout the years‚ there have been all types of theories about her in the Mona Lisa painting. It seems that most of these theorizers not only have a hypothesis about her smile or name‚ but believe that no one else’s hypothesis is right except for theirs
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Biographical 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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Leonardo versus Michelangelo Violet Jane Greeley Art Appreciation ART 101 Carrie Ann Wills November 13‚ 2012 Da Vinci versus Michelangelo Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simone shared many similarities. Both were painters‚ sculptors‚ and poets. They both had a tendency to leave their works incomplete. Both artists quickly surpassed the talents of their instructors and achieved fame with ease. In addition‚ both artists were known to have studied anatomy by
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Leonardo da Vinci Early life: Leonardo was born on April 15‚ 1452‚ in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci‚ in the lower valley of the Arno River in the territory of Florence. Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci‚ a Florentine notary was his father‚ and Catherina‚ a peasant who may have been a slave from the Middle East was his mother. Leonardo had no surname in the modern sense‚ "da Vinci" simply meaning "of Vinci": his full birth name was "Leonardo di Ser Piero da Vinci"‚ meaning "Leonardo‚ son
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Leonardo Da Vinci is a world famous Italian painter‚ sculptor‚ architect‚ musician‚ engineer‚ and scientist. His interest for the things around him and the research was the major point of his artistic and scientific accomplishments. His creations in painting influenced Italian art centuries after his death and his scientific studies in anatomy‚ optics and hydraulics. He has helped made many developments of modern science. His famous paintings for example the Mona Lisa and the
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life. Attempts at realism have been made periodically throughout history in all the arts; the term is‚ however‚ generally restricted to a movement that began in the mid-19th century‚ in reaction to the highly subjective approach of romanticism. The works of John Constable and Honoré Daumier show the great differences in Romantic characteristics and Realist characteristics‚ both with the subjects they painted and the styles that they used to paint. John Constable was an English painter who was known
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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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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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Leonardo of Pisa or Fibonacci and the Issue of Moneylenders NFaly Konate Texas A&M University – Central Texas FIN 590 Dr. Mary Kelly Summer 2012 Northern Italy in the early thirteen century was a land subdivided into multiple feuding city-states. Among the many remnants of defunct Roman Empire was a numerical system (I‚ ii‚ iii‚ iv…) singularly ill suited to complex mathematical calculation‚ let alone the needs of commerce. Nowhere was this more of a problem than in Pisa‚ where merchants
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