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    he finished it 1493. But out of all of his work, The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper were his most famous. Why you may ask. Well, because they were the first that used this thing called perspective. Like, it was mentioned earlier, perspective is basically like looking at a painting or sketch three dimensional. The Mona Lisa The Mona Lisa was Leonardo’s most famous painting. In painting this piece, Leonardo took art to a whole new level. See the trees in the background? and the dirt road the gradually

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    famous Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci in Florence, Italy. The painting was a portrait of the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. The painting depicts her enigmatic smile which still remains a subject of wonder. The Mona Lisa was painted on a 76.8 x 53 cm canvas with oil paints. Oil painting was among the main relevant advances in art made during the Renaissance. The paints were made from minerals, such as azurite and malachite, and plants, such as saffron and Brazil wood. The Mona Lisa was also

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    The Simpson Reflection

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    Marge to invest in the company without any knowledge of the stock market other than his own perception of the product. Even as the teller informs Homer that he would need to have his wife sign, he goes behind a plant to impersonate Marge to sign and Lisa to get some candy. He even tries to leave after accepting the candy without getting the money that he went in for. After losing his investment he decides to become a medical guinea pig to get some extra cash, this lead to the discovery of a childhood

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    But both centuries have very different artwork and some have some similarities. The Mona Lisa was from the renaissance era and was probably one of the most famous paintings ever done by Leonardo Di Vinci. It’s a portrait of a woman said to be the wife of Francesco Giocondo. Mona Lisa facial expression has been called “enigmatic” because her gentle smile is not accompanied by the warmth one would expect to see in her eyes. The portrait itself was oil painted on poplar wood panel, after finishing the

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    looking at are “the Mona Lisa, the Last Supper, the annunciation, Leonardo as an anatomist, Da Vinci as an astronomer, his codex’s and his manuscripts”. I consider Leonardo da Vinci to be both an

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    The Simpsons Up Close and Personal There is a fine line that exists in TV land that had never been crossed until The Simpsons graced the television sets of over one million Americans. This sitcom has become one of the most popular television programs in America. Is it because The Simpsons is a cartoon? My answer is yes! This show is able to sneak through the wormholes of TV land because it is a cartoon. People are overlooking the underlying issues conveyed through the characters because

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    Donald Sassoon, author of Becoming Mona Lisa, viewers of the Mona Lisa may be more impressed by Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People. Both paintings are excellent in their own right, but many believe that the Mona Lisa is praised more because of its “status” and less because of the work itself. Delacroix’s painting contains more of the factors associated with “a great painting” but is not as well known, and therefore receives less recognition than the Mona Lisa. As I view both paintings, I seem to

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    that has carried on for decades. Art in any form may it be poetry, novels, and playwright, sculpting as well as painting, has been an outlet for generations and continues to be an outlet and a means for expression. This paper will discuss “ The Mona Lisa” one of Da Vinci’s most famous paintings, as well as another great painting, Antonio Veneziano’s

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    painting in his private quarters at The Palace of Fontainebleau. Then it was passed on to Louis XV he took the Mona Lisa to the Palace of Versailles and then following the portrait was hung in Napoleon’s bedroom in the Tuileries Palace. Later on in the year 1793 the Mona Lisa found a long-lasting home in Paris at the Louvre museum when it open for the first time. Overall, the Mona Lisa is one of Da Vinci’s numerous works of art. Which is a work of genius to wonder at to date. When people first look

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    grandiose paintings like the Last Supper. Therefore, Santa Maria delle Grazie became the court church, burial place for members of the Ducal family, and home to Leonardo's famous painting. The Last supper is measured fifteen by twenty-nine feet. Christians see the Last Supper as the original of the Eucharist. The Synoptic Gospels depict the meal as a Passover meal; the Gospel of St. John does not. The Last Supper has been a favorite subject of

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