As for his painting career, there is only a few paintings he is fully credited for or recognized as his work. In his paintings, he has had help and collaborated with his pupils that passed as apprentices in his workshop. A couple of the most famous of his pupils include Leonardo Da Vinci and Lorenzo di Credi. Whenever Verrocchio didn’t finish something, he would leave it to someone else to put some finishing touches. He left amazing art behind soon died of an unknown cause in 1488.
He did not learn to paint on his own, but his father who too was an artist called Giovanni Santi taught him. Raphael went to Florence, to study the works of the other great artists at that time like Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. Background of Raphael- Raphael who was the youngest of the three renaissance artists, was not only an Italian artist, but a painter too at the period of High Renaissance and lived for thirty- seven years.His accurate and glamorous paintings and drawings had made him very famous at that time. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he becomes a great master of that period. Raphael was very useful during his
Saint Francis was born in Giovanni Bernadone and was an educated son of a rich merchant. After an early career in a soldier he dedicated himself to god. He then began the Franciscan order after he and his follower gain recognition from the pope. Before his death St. Francis experienced a wound in his hands and feet like those of the crucified Christ (Stockstad 610). St. Francis has influence the artwork of Giotto, the best-known naturalistic painter of his period.
This era gave birth to some of the most popular and distinguished pieces of art from all of western civilization. In the movie Amadeus, Mozart is depicted as a bit of an eccentric composer. The movie follows him through his childhood when he wrote his first symphonies, up until his abrupt death. The movie shows a human side to the composer that you cannot gain simply by listening to his music. It shows how he struggled while he was alive to earn for his family and profit off of his music.
Then, Rillieux father send him to Paris best school (L'Ecole) were there were no racial restrictions, to study engineering. On Paris in L'Ecole the school he was attending he turned out to be a brilliant student, he showed an extraordinary skill on engineering, making his dad really proud. At the age of twenty-four he became a instructor of applied mechanics on the same school he studied in, also making him the youngest teacher there. Then in 1830 he published a series of papers on steam-engine work and steam economy that created favorable attention in scientific circle all over Europe. He also developed the theory of
He was a painter, draftsman and writer but his greatest artistic impact was in the medium of printmaking. Dürer apprenticed with his father, who was a goldsmith and with Michael Wolgemut (the local painter). He changed printmaking,
When was he born – when did he die? - Born: 6th March 1475 in a small village called Caprese, Italy - Died: 18th February 1564 ( Age of 88 )in Rome2. Biography - He considered himself a “ Son of Florence” although he never lived there- Michelangelo travelled between Rome and Florence because he had a lot of work in both cities - He worked as a sculptor, architect, painter, engineer and as a poet- Michelangelo always looked for the “perfect” stone because he wanted it to have the basic form of his sculpture3. The Sistine Chapel Ceiling - April 1508 Michelangelo was summoned to Rome by Julius II - He had a new task, to draw 15 figures of Apostles and some decoration on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel - Some of the themes were: Adam and Eve, The creation of the world, The Final Judgment- => It is basically the story of the Bible- He was a sculptor and at the beginning he tried to cancel his oncoming work because he had to master the art of fresco - May 1508 he started to make the preparatory designs - Assistants: Giuliano Bugiardini, Aristotele da Sangallo and his old friend Francesco Granacci along with a number of laborers - His work did not proceed as his master wished and between the end of 1508 and January 1509He fired his assistants and continued on his own- He worked till 31st October 1512 - Michelangelo has a very unique style because he is a sculptor, he concentrates on the right proportions of the bodies => The Figures on his frescos look very realistic => They look plastic4. The Tomb of Medici - Between 1519 and 1534 – Michelangelo undertook the commission of the Medici Tombs for the New Sacristy of San Lorenzo - He designed two large walls facing each other across the high domed room - The 1st wall was dedicated for Lorenzo de’ Medici, Duke of Urbino - The other wall was for Giuliano de’ Medici, Duke of Nemours
It was in Philadelphia that he found work as an apprentice printer. After many years of working as an apprentice printer, Ben Franklin decided to establish his own printing business in Philadelphia (Donovan 76). Although he was young, Ben was working all of the time. The citizens noticed his great work ethic. Shortly after that, Franklin married his childhood sweetheart, Deborah Reed.
He grew up from stonemason family. Because of this background, he learned to value crafts, practicality, understood the materials, mastered the use of tools skillfully and the slow, measured pace of transforming raw material into cultural artifacts. Mies did not attend to high school or university. However, In 1899, through a scholarship he started to study in trade school where education was offer several lessons, particularly on life drawing as well as technical drawing. Learning to draw was pivotal for Mies, the early on demonstrated his talent is occasionally lettering for one of his father’s tombstones, then in technical drawing at school and shortly theater in drafting large scale decorative details fora stucco fabricator for whom he worked for two years.
His father was the mayor. He attended school in Florence, but he was preoccupied by art. When he was 13, his father agreed to apprentice him to some well-known painters in Florence. Michelangelo was unsatisfied with these artists, because they would not teach him their artistic secrets. He went to work under another sculptor hired by Lorenzo de Medici.