Essays Tagged: "Leonardo"

The Italian Renaissance. Speaks of Donatello, Brunelleschi, da Vinci , and Michelangelo

e. The artists of this time were the some of the most brilliant people of all time. Among them were Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarotti.Leonardo da Vinci was the greatest and most brilliant ... arotti.Leonardo da Vinci was the greatest and most brilliant of all the artists of the Renaissance. Leonardo was born outside the city of Vinci in 1452 (Valentine). He was the illegitimate son of Ser ...

(9 pages) 237 0 4.7 Apr/1995

Subjects: Art Essays

Comparing Leonardo Da Vinci with Michelangelo

Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti were, and still are considered to be two of the greate ... greatest minds, even geniuses of the Renaissance. But which one is more of a genius than the other? Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 15th, 1452, son to a notary called Ser Piero. Ser Pier has sex w ... er, they never got married. Ser Pier later married another woman, when he was 25, which is the time Leonardo was born. As for Michelangelo, he was born on March 6, 1475, to a father called Ludovico, a ...

(7 pages) 234 0 3.6 Feb/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

A breif biography of Andrea del Verrochio

a del Verrochio).Andrea del Verrochio was a sculptor, painter, goldsmith, and master to Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci and Perugino. Andrea del Verrochio ranked second only to Donatello among the Itali ... of Goliath, Alexander the Great, Tomb of Giovanni and Piero de' Medici, Christ and St Thomas. When Leonardo Da Vinci was 15, his father apprenticed him to Andrea del Verrocchio. Leonardo was once ass ...

(1 pages) 29 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays

Michelangelo Buonarroti's life as a child,a young man,and an old timer.

nd of five brothers, Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475, at Caprese, in Tuscany, to Ludovico di Leonardo di Buonarotto Simoni and Francesca Neri. The same day, his father noted down: "Today March ...

(12 pages) 92 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Ferdinand Magellan and Leonardo De Vinci.

Leonardo Da Vinci and Ferdinand MagellanLeonardo Da Vinci and Ferdinand Magellan lived in lives that ... cipated in the Portuguese court. At age 26, he traveled on his first expedition to the East Indies. Leonardo Da Vinci accomplished his first feat at age 30. This is when he provided a service for the ... to see the end of his journey he was still considered the first navigator to sail around the world. Leonardo Da Vinci also had many remarkable accomplishments. A few of them were his flying machines, ...

(4 pages) 38 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

My views on the controversial gameboard Ghettopoly.

he primary group that is feeling offended. Why should the black society be offended by this at all? Leonardo Pitts, a journalist, feels that he should be obligated by this game because Rev. Al Sharpto ...

(2 pages) 31 1 4.3 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

This essay is all about Leonardo da vinci . His life and his works .

LEONARDO DA VINCIIn the fifteenth century, Italy was not the unified country we know today. At that ... They fought wars against each other and against smaller neighboring states to increase their power.Leonardo da Vinci was born in the year 1452 in the small hill town of Vinci. His father was a succes ... green olive trees dot the landscape.The slopes above Vinci lead to Mount Albano, a high peak where Leonardo later hiked and made observations about the atmosphere. Small mountain streams run down fro ...

(6 pages) 126 1 3.6 Jan/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Discuss the connection between Leonardo da Vinci and naturalism in his "Annunciation" and his other works.

Leonardo's 'Annunciation' For the young Florentine painter, Leonardo de Vinci was quite empha ... rly works and carried out throughout his entire ensemble of pieces that are attributed to his name. Leonardo was fascinated with nature. Many of his earliest sketches are of plants, flowers, and botan ... more realistically. Many of these characteristics are seen in one of his earliest paintings, Leonardo's 'Annunciation'. From analysis of this painting we can see this young painter's desire to ...

(4 pages) 54 0 4.6 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

The "Genius" - Leonardo Da Vinci

In the latter stages of the fifteenth century, Leonardo da Vinci, as a part of the Italian Renaissance, used his innovative ideas to further scienc ... lenges of new social, political, economic, scientific, and ecclesiastical developments" (Reti, 22). Leonardo da Vinci was one of "the most diverse and enigmatic talent (s) of the Renaissance" (Bishop, ... being jus about the smartest person ever", "he was indeed a man of both worlds".(http://www.mos.org/leonardo/bio.html)(http://www.library.thinkquest.org/3044.int_over.html)Leonard was born April fifte ...

(4 pages) 162 0 4.6 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Graffiti

e objective of this paper is to distinguish between gang tags and graffiti-an art form.Suppose that Leonardo, Monet, Picasso, or any of the renowned artists of Western European culture were alive in t ...

(19 pages) 196 3 4.7 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts

Life of Michelangelo

gelo, the second of five brothers was born on March 6, 1475, at Caprese, in Tuscany, to Ludovico di Leonardo di Buonarotto Simoni and Francesca Neri. The same day, his father noted down: "Today March ...

(2 pages) 44 0 3.8 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Leonardo davinci

doration of the Magi (Uffizi), with its characteristic dramatic movement and chiaroscuro. In c.1482 Leonardo went to the court of Ludovico Sforza in Milan and there composed most of his Trattato della ... his drawings and plans for domed churches reflect his concern with architectural problems. In 1483, Leonardo and his pupil Ambrogio de Predis were commissioned to execute the famous Madonna of the Roc ...

(2 pages) 43 0 3.5 Oct/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Leonardo da Vinci (his life and artworks) part 2

Anatomy.Leonardo has become renowned as a dissecting artist, probing, as legend tells us, the forbidden inne ... as an illicit and sacrilegious activity, which placed him outside the realms of the church. Late in Leonardo's career in papal Rome, one of the troublesome German technicians denounced his dissections ... some German technicians denounced his dissections of the Pope, but the drawn and written records of Leonardo's anatomical investigations tell a generally different story. The one fully documented and ...

(7 pages) 43 1 4.3 Dec/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo's "Last Supper" is a priceless piece of art with much hidden meaning and obvious talents be ... he symbolism he used which emphasized the story being told in the Last Supper.Lodovico Sforza chose Leonardo to create The Last Supper in the refectory of the Dominican Church of S. Maria delle Grazie ... the Dominican Church of S. Maria delle Grazie in Milan. The Abate of the S. Maria delle Grazie saw Leonardo work from morning until night on The Last Supper without eating. Although, there were times ...

(2 pages) 30 0 0.0 May/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Creativity- meaning, domains and what creative individuals are?

e special institution to get a degree. Creative people are the ones without qualification. Picasso, Leonardo, Einstein etc have changed our culture in some important way and were the ones without qual ...

(4 pages) 35 0 0.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Michelango Buonarroti: Immortality Through Infamy

son of five brothers, Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475 at Caprese, in Tuscany, to Ludovico di Leonardo di Buonarroti Simoni and Francesca Neri. Francesca died when Michelangelo was only a few mo ...

(9 pages) 14 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Art Essays

Untitled

just slip into something sexy( black leather thong and triangle bra for me and anything flashy for Leonardo.We dance 'till the sun rises when our twins are away.My only sex tip is use silky sheets if ...

(2 pages) 936 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

The two last suppers

Compare Leonardo?s Last Supper with that of Tintoretto.The Last Supper by Leonardo is very different to Tint ... ually recorded through art the two most famous of these representations are by far Tintoretto?s and Leonardo?s works. The Last Supper by Leonardo was created during the renaissance period and is a sim ... rough the artists contrasting use of colour, light, realism, technique perception and focal point/s.Leonardo?s version of the Last Supper was painted El fresco depicting the scene passively without em ...

(2 pages) 26 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

Beauty Of Women

s only used in the play at a heightened dramatic point or to help create tension. For example, when Leonardo and the Bride are talking to each other in the middle of the forest, they speak in verse fo ... in metaphorical terms, as do some of the other characters when they are speaking.The bride says to Leonardo, "And helplessly I follow you A straw blown on the wind" She describes herself as a straw b ...

(2 pages) 1165 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

The Creative Process of a Genius

creative process. I will also address my creative process along with that of three notable creators.Leonardo was considered a genius, his creativity was natural and nurtured. His creative ability was ... l and nurtured. His creative ability was driven by his desire to obtain knowledge in his own terms. Leonardo's education was meager and conventional. He was almost illiterate. Leonardo was a person wh ...

(5 pages) 53 0 0.0 Jun/2009

Subjects: Art Essays