Raphael Holinshed

In this assignment I will be giving a brief description of the history of Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Then I’ll define Humanism and how Da Vinci and Michelangelo approached the representation of the human body differently. To do that I’ll be analyzing Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Michelangelo’s Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Leonardo da Vinci was born in the town of Vinci in 1452 to a prominent Tuscan family of potters and notaries. He trained in Florentine workshop of Andrea

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, was born in Caprese, Italy in 1475. When Michelangelo was only a month old when he and his parents moved back to Florence, Italy. Due to his mother’s illness, he was placed to a family of stonecutters. At a very young age, he was extremely interested in paintings and sculptures. He would watch from a faraway distance, how they would paint, and he would try to duplicate the drawings on his own. His father noticed that he wasn't interested in the banking

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael, has known art all of his life. His father, Giovanni Santi, was a painter for the Duke of Urbino, Federigo da Montefeltro. After his death, in 1494, Raphael took over his father's workshop and surpassed the painting skills that Giovanni. In 1500, when Raphael was about seventeen, he became an apprentice to Perugino. This apprenticeship only lasted about four years once Raphael quickly gained all the knowledge and experience that Perugino had to offer,

I think that art can have an effect on society. There are examples of this in numerous art works. Few works of art were painted at the right time and were able to break through enough boundaries to change the world around them, and few artists had this skill. One of these artists is Leonardo Da Vinci and his Masterpiece The Mona Lisa. The most noticeable piece of art was the Mona Lisa, in the mona lisa you can see a woman who is dressed in dark clothes, a veil covering her hair, hands crossed, with

The Marriage of the Virgin was painted by Luca Signorelli in Italy from 1490 to 1491 . The painting is an oil painting done is Renaissance style. The painter,Signorelli was born in Cortona, Tuscany around 1445. He then moved to Rome to apprentice for Piero de Franceschi. Signorelli painted mostly sacred Christian paintings and art for chapels and cathedrals.Michelangelo is even rumored to have used some of Signorelli's influence when he was painting the Sistine Chapel. Signorelli then died in 1523

From all times and people that I got a chance to get a glance from their life and career, there is one person who had a big influence in my life. The person that when you hear his name is immediately linked to, as known "Universal Genius" or "Renaissance Man", and that is Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci. He was a painter, architect, musician, engineer, inventor, mathematician, and writer. He is considered to be one of the greatest painters and the most talented person of all time. I always was interested

Hayden Block Don’t Forget Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci should not be forgotten in World History because of his expertise and influence in the fields of astronomy and cartography, inventing/engineering, and art. Leonardo Da Vinci was a man of many fields. Born on April 15, 1452, he grew up in the small town of Vinci on the Tuscan Hill. He was the non-biological son of Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a Florentine notary, and Caterina, a peasant who may have been a slave from the Middle East

Leonardo da Vinci is known for having one of the most creative and brilliant minds during the Italian Renaissance. He was born on April 15, 1452 and died in 1519 at only 67 years of age. History.com explains that Leonardo did not have any type of formal education beyond the basic math, reading, and writing. Throughout his lifetime he was offered to attend the painters’ guild of Florence but chose to continue to work as an apprentice for his father until 1477. From then on, Da Vinci painted some of

Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475 in Caprese, Italy. Michelangelo was known to be one of the best artists during the renaissance. Michelangelo never was interested in school work. He was always amazed by the painters and artist that were around him. Thus, igniting the flame and desire of him becoming a painter, artist, poet and sculptor. At the age of sixteen Michelangelo sculpted two reliefs, Battle of the Centaurs and Madonna Seated on a Step. Two of Michelangelo’s famous works was the Pieta

The Renaissance, a time period painted over like a great canvas with the names of legendary artists. People in the modern world know mostly the great names like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael, etc. These names have become ingrained in culture, so much so that the names have taken on a new persona of four animated turtles. But like any time period these names barely scratch the surface of a cornerstone in the history of art. Beginning in the 13th century, known as the Early Renaissance