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most influential person to ever have lived was a man by the name of Leonardo da Vinci. In awe with his works at a young age, I have always considered da Vinci to be one of the greatest minds on Earth. Some would argue that he was not as accomplished as he seemed (this having been a previous argument in my life) since he did not exactly focus his expertise on any one category. There is some truth to this claim, for example da Vinci was an exceptional painter. Had he focused all his time on his paintings

1. The first art work being discussed is The Descent from the Cross and was painted by Rosso Fiorentino. This painting was created in 1521 and is oil on panel. This painting was commissioned for the Chapel of the Compagnia della Croce di Giorno in the church of San Francisco in Volterra. This painting is in the style is very idiosyncratic. The second painting that is being looked at is called The Last Supper and was created by Jacopo Robusti who goes by Tintoretto. Tintoretto created this painting

Leonardo Di Ser Piero Da Vinci was born April, 1452 Vinci, Italy. Not much of his early life was recorded except that he was born into a peasant family. Until he reached the age of five little has been discovered about his childhood. When he was 14, He became the apprentice of an artist named Andrea del Verrocchio, and even helped create a piece named The Baptism of Christ around 1466. He continued to collaborate with Verrocchio until 1478 when he quit his work with him. In 1482 he made a piece

Depending on the art, art is a representation of the visual, or the natural world, which light and shadow give perspective on how far things are, it’s even the same with art. In the book “The Perspective of Shadows: The history of the Theory of Shadow Projection” by Thomas Kaufmann states, “The projection of shadows is a problem that plagued artists and art theorist of the Renaissance. Leonardo himself an artist was also plagued by this issue. Leonardo was not only a famous painter that worked on

However, the golden age of Japanese ceramics did not really begin until the sixteenth century when the tea master Sen no Rikyū popularized the tea ceremony. In his refinement of this art form, Rikyū found beauty in the earthly and natural forms of pottery and thus commissioned the production of “raku ware,” which today, is considered the pinnacle of Japanese pottery. Notable for its ruggedness and imperfections, raku ware made Rikyū into a central figure in the establishment of the wabi-sabi aesthetic

During Thanksgiving Break, I visited the St. Louis Art Museum in my hometown. Through many floors of sculptures, painting, and other objects, the one thing that caught my eye was the portrait called Women Seated on Sofa in Interior. This piece was by Fredrick Carl Frieseke an American impressionist painter. He favored quiet, interior scenes of women. Frieseke used the setting of the portrait to explore the interplay of light, color, and pattern. The medium of this canvas is oil and it’s dated back

little transformation of the original’ (Tate, no date). Artists have been appropriating for many centuries and tend to use the most iconic of masterpieces from the past and make them more contemporary for today’s style. The ‘Mona Lisa’ by Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest examples of this act. It is one of the most famous and well known paintings ever created; however the piece has been manipulated by other artists, so much that the meaning behind the original is indefinite. If a piece of

Leonardo da Vinci was born in a town of Vinci, Italy on April 15, 1452. Leonardo da Vinci was an artist, scientist, and an during the Italian Renaissance period. He is and was one of the most talented, and intelligent people of all time. Leonardo was a renaissance man for his very clever ideas and because he had been brilliant in many different fields of knowledge. We don't know much about the parents of leonardo but his dad was very wealthy and have had many wifes. Leonardo had never

So I loved studying on Leonardo da Vinci, I had no clue he had started or had been commissioned to do many, many projects and didn't complete even a fraction of them. Leonardo had such a strong image of his beliefs and what he saw he could never really convey that truly on paper. Only a fraction of his ideas ever came out in a painting because he was trying to prove how things could be the way he saw and felt it should be through bits of detail and shading. Researcher's say that they can feel and

Organization & Development What if you created a masterpiece that the whole world knew? Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael are some of the artists that did so. Artists from our day look up to them and use their techniques from long ago. Many artists in the renaissance types are some of the most well-known creators of all time. Donatello was a sculptor and a painter. He was a painter, though he is known for sculpting. He was an Italian sculptor that lived in the late fourteenth