He created two of the most respected pieces of art in human history, The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, both of which still maintain their credibility as masterpieces to this day. Da Vinci’s notebook also proved him to be a Renaissance man, he had many great ideas in various subjects including art, writing, anatomy and scientific design. Da Vinci’s notes show primitive ideas for inventions that wouldn’t be fully developed until centuries later. This flood of intelligence is what prevented a lot of his ideas from fully developing. Since da Vinci excelled in many subjects, he never had enough time in his life to completely focus on mastering one field in particular.
Reading this poem lifts the weight of the world off of the readers shoulders by making him think about what make him happy. Charles is saying is the only thing that matters is happiness. Anyone can be happy it’s your own choice. This author has a very healthy outlook on life. This poem is very positive.
Sano di Pietro was also highly regarded in his time: Sano di Pietro was one of the most prolific and successful Sienese painters, the head of a workshop that satisfied the demands of civic and religious institutions in the city as well as those of private devotion. His production, technically always of a very fine quality, rich in decorative effects, and characterized by a brilliant palette, often contains motifs that appear monotonous and repetitive (Art in Tuscany). When studying these paintings it is important to notice its many similarities besides the obvious sacred theme and the subjects. To start, their Byzantine origins are based on the predominant religion of the Roman Empire: Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, and when that happened Christian art, too, began to take on a more official look. But by this time the western part of the Empire was falling to pieces, and the capital had been moved from Rome to Byzantium, in eastern Greece.
Jan van Eyck was born in the Netherlands, and studied under his brother Hubert van Eyck. In 1425, van Eyck moved to Bruges to become a court painter for Phillip the Good. As a court painter, van Eyck had the opportunity to travel and improve his already great skill. After six years of travel, van Eyck settled in Bruges. Van Eyck’s work was commissioned by both Phillip the Good and outside patrons.
These men were great artist and their art is greatly recognized today. The Mona Lisa for example is still very famous and people still argue who it actually was that da Vinci had painted. There are even fictional characters that were named after these men such as the TMNT which shows that they are still remembered in certain ways. England is also one of the countries that was greatly affected by the Renaissance. It is especially known for one of its greatest authors, William Shakespeare.
Moses Maimonides’ works and teachings influenced later Jewish, Greek and Christian scholars and philosophers. His works and services that he provided to the Jewish community have notoriously contributed to Judaism to a great extent. Moses’ contributions to the Jewish society since the 12th century have influenced many people from both Jewish and other religious traditions and he is known as the greatest Jewish leader that ever lived and people still study him and are taught about him today. “He was not only a healer of princes, but a prince of healers” – Lawrence Englander. His works and contributions are studied today by both Jewish and non-Jewish scholars.
The Faces of Diego Rivera Diego Rivera was a great artist; critics compared him to the great Michelangelo a true Renaissance man. This comparison allows us to see what an accomplished artist he was and how significant his artwork was to the art world as well as the general public. Rivera’s artwork was very well known; his uniqueness separated him from other artist of his era even though he was known to have some links to communism. One of Diego Rivera’s finest work of art was The Flower Vender (Girl with Lilies) painted in 1941. The painting was painted in oil on Masonite.
But when the seasons brought the fourth around, one of her maids," (Homer, The Odyssey, line 114 page 22, 2012.) On the other hand, Nestor and Telemakhos show very great respect for each other when Telemakhos meets Nestor. Telemakhos accepts and appreciates Nestor's xenia for him. When the host of a home shows good hospitality, or xenia, they give the guests the finest of material and foods. One of the examples of this when Telemakhos meets Nestor is that Nestor gives him fine wine.
THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE BY PAUL GATWARD Eadweard Muybridge is one of the most significant figures in the history of photography and cinema. Born just as photography was invented, in a world changing faster than ever before, Muybridge tried to capture change, and spent his life time building a body of artistic and scientific works that is still being admired and used as a helpful resource to this very day. He was an ingenious inventor and is considered by many as the father of Cinema He was also one of the finest landscape photographers of the west. But this success may have been the result of an earlier incident in his life when he was involved in an accident whilst travelling on a stage coach where he sustained a serious head injury that may have changed not just his decision making but the very core that is Eadweard Muybridge. In a journal Called, Muybridge in motion: Travels in Art, Psychology and Neurology by Arthur P. Shimamura, Professor of Psychology and faculty member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute.
Renaissance - Reflections of Reality Advancement in painting techniques during the Renaissance was not only the rebirth of Art but the birth of Art as we know it today. Major contributing factors I will be discussing here are the adoption of oil-based pigment as the leading medium for painting and the idea that Art could not only tell a religious story in an emotional thought provoking way but represent the here and now, the reality of life in a realistic way. Jan van Eyck was a 15th century Flemish painter, van Eyck was one of the most celebrated painters in Northern Europe during the fifteenth century, widely hailed for his miraculous ability to depict observed reality with a refinement verging on the microscopic. The beginnings of oil painting are recorded as early as the 12Th Century in Northern Europe. But it was the virtuoso handling of the medium on panel by van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden that represented a turning point in its eventual adoption as the major painting medium in Europe in the 16th Century.