THE LIFE AND DEATH AND FAMOUS WORKS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI Nathan Grissom History 101 Western Civilization to Antiquity-1650 April 16th, 2017 The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci was born on Saturday April 15th in 1452 at three in the morning in Vinci, Italy. It would be 10:30 PM in today’s time. Da Vinci was known as a renaissance man who had a curious mind and his intellect was high. He was raised in a farmhouse near the hills of Tuscany. He was raised by his
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Religious and cultural upheaval brought many changes during the 16th-century that let to High Renaissance. During this period the High Renaissance art, flourished for about 35 years and revolved around three important figures: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael. Leonardo da Vinci was an innovative artist, centuries ahead of time, who dramatically changed art history. One of his greatest masterpieces is the “Madonna of the Rocks,” which he started painting in 1483. In this painting,
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Machiavelli’s The Prince and God’s Word both give advice on how to rule. Two main similarities between the two manuscripts are that a leader must be kind and that he should not abuse his power. In Machiavelli’s time, Italy was not a united country but was divided into multiple city-states. Attempting to help Italian rulers, he wrote his magnum opus The Prince. Machiavelli wrote that a leader needed to have a balance between clemency, or kindness, and cruelty. He knew that a ruler needed to
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The adoration of the mystic lamb was created by jan and hubert Eyck in 1432. It has a strong history as one of the most significant art pieces of the renaissance. It was reassembled, stolen and cleaned. In fact the prior knowledge of the piece being seen by us was after world war 2, In 2010 they finally received a grant for the altarpiece, where they now focused on the pieces condition and stabilizing it, additional funds also allowed for a committee of Dutch historians to overlooked its condition
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“ I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observation”(Vesalius). Andreas like many great scientist believed that you must conduct several experiments before making a conclusion. Andreas Vesalius deserves to be the next Renaissance Idol because he demonstrates the skills, devotion, and creativity that other have lacked to present. The word Renaissance means the “rebirth”, the Renaissance era followed the decline of the feudal system. This allowed individuals to
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Fra Angelico was both a Dominican friar as well as a talented painter. His most famous frescoes can be found in the monastery of San Marco throughout the small rooms. A very popular piece that all the monks would see everytime they walked up the stairs to their sleeping chambers was Fra Angelico’s The Annunciation. There are only two figures in this painting, which lacks all the other symbols that are usually included in an Annunciation piece. On the left is the angel Gabriel, who has come to Mary
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During the Fourteenth Century, times had begun to change in terms of the way of thinking as it pertains to governing a state. An Italian author, Niccolò Machiavelli introduced his way of thinking by writing The Prince, which is often interpreted as a way to rule, or not to rule. He uses humanism to back up his views on how governing should be handled. Of course, the book was rejected by the Catholic Church, which believed in divine authority. In The Prince, Machiavelli expresses that people are actually
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Lao-tzu VS. Machiavelli What is considered to be a good idea about a government and a leader? In the book A World of Ideas, two different government point of views by two celebrated authors is presented. The first author was Lao-tzu, an ancient Chinese philosopher from the sixth century B.C.E, who was asked to write down his thought before leaving his job; thus, he wrote “Thoughts from the Tao-te Ching”. It is a philosophical work about good government as well as about moral behavior: the way of
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The Renaissance covered the whole fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy. All the productions from the artists were amazing and some of the works produced during the Renaissance continue to capture the public’s imagination. It offers so many lessons, so we can approach today’s world. People during the time of Renaissance looked to their past with a sense of admiration and in search of guidance, which we are doing nowadays. They did not only looked back for some centuries, but instead to the
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The piece I am looking at is the Lamentation in the Arena Chapel by Giotto. This painting was done in 1303 in Padua. This piece uses lines,colors, contrast and texture to bring the entire picture together to work as a whole piece. One element of form Giotto used are lines to make the appearance (also known as contour lines) of certain objects as well. The upper right corner has lines in many different directions to form the shape of a tree. Below that, the shape of the rock is established through
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