Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452, in the Republic of Florence, which is known nowadays as Italy. He was a sculptor, engineer, mathematician, writer, architect, and much more. However, he is best renowned as a painter. Some of his notable art works are: the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Thanks to his famous art pieces, he can best be described as the archetype of the “Renaissance Man”. His curiosity was able to match his power of inventions. As an engineer, he formed the concepts of a
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Throughout the 14th and 15th centuries there has been many famous paintings of the depiction of the roman Goddess of love, Venus. I have chose to compare and contrast Botticelli’s, “Birth of Venus” from the early renaissance and Titian's, “Venus of Urbino” from the high renaissance. Sandro Botticelli's painting, “Birth of Venus” and Titian's, “Venus of Urbino” both show the depiction of Venus through the use of hue, value and intensity of color and symbolism. Both compositions is a representation
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Tony Diterlizzi is an incredible artist, author, and visual producer. His books have inspired millions of children to be creative, explore, and to try their best. Each of his incredible works have been a connection his wild and mysterious world, so that the audience might hopefully see it through his whimsical eyes. Diterlizzi was born in Las Angeles, California on September 6, 1969 to Carole and Tony Diterlizzi. At the age of two his family moved to Southern Florida, where he then spent the rest
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What Key Events Lead To the Renaissance? Have you ever wondered what allowed the Renaissance to occur? Well there where a few major factors. One of those factors was the change of European Society. We will see what technology was made, and see what happened to Europe. One major factor that helped end Feudalism was The Plague. It killed around two-thirds of Europe’s population, leaving Europe with less workers. Since, the decrease in workers, food prices went up because of high food demand
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Europeans began to take an interest in and focusing more on learning and gaining achievement. Developing new ways of thinking, education, and expanding trade. The coming of humanism. When the European society wants to gain more knowledge of life from classical Rome and Greece teachings. Scholars studied texts. This was known as humanism. Humanism was developed to create a well-rounded civilization. To have the people think for themselves. When humanism began to be a part of life in the 1200s the
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I chose to research Brunelleschi’s dome. I found it so interesting how he went about solving the problem of the dome. This particular dome had to be constructed entirely different from anything that was built in the past, and to this day is an icon of Florence. The dome wasn’t actually completed by Brunelleschi, though it was his design that was followed through with. He developed the dome in such a way that scaffolding wasn’t necessary for it to be constructed. This alone was amazing for the
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Sandro Botticelli full name Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi was one of the greatest, most influential and respected Italian painter of the Early Renaissance art. He was born in 1445 and died on 17th of May 1510. His reputation suffered for a brief moment until the late 19th century. Now his work it represents the linear grace of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli was trained first by Maso Finguerra (goldsmith) and then by artist Fra Filippo Lippi. Lippi’s painting style influenced Botticelli’s
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I chose to research and study Leonardo da Vinci and his contribution to the world of art, specifically painting, through the principles of design: perspective, light, shadows, and color. I most certainly believe that Leonardo da Vinci was an artistic genius who was called before the world was to enlighten and bless us with his inspiration from God. According to “Leonardo da Vinci: the complete works”, he was a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect
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Renaissance DBQ The European Renaissance was a broad movement with many nuanced, smaller branches that all intertwined to create a tree of change. The transformation of ideology was present in art, science, even religion. Revolution was the driving force behind the time, and it infected every aspect of society, causing them to all be connected. People became fed up with being told what to do, and began defying the expectation to be complacent by questioning everything around them, and starting
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In 500 B.C.E Europe entered the Middle Ages. This time period can also be known as the Dark Ages because Europe experienced destruction of towns, decline of trade, and loss of common knowledge. After the fall of Rome various barbarian tribes invaded Europe and weakened the society. After the barbarians ransacked towns, burned churches, and destroyed property they left the town in shambles without any government or order. According to Document 1 “ they (barbarians) sacked towns and village and laid
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