One of the most famous stories from his apprenticeship was when Leonardo was in his early 20s. He was assigned to work with Verrocchio on the Baptism of Christ. He painted the angel holding Jesus; his work was so superior to his master’s that Verrocchio allegedly decided never to paint again. When Leonardo decided to leave the workshop to make his own career, court records from 1476 show us that Leonardo and three other young men were charged with sodomy, and then acquitted when no witnesses or victims presented themselves. In 1482 Leonardo found work in the Duke of Milan; he was kept busy painting famous pieces of art, like The Last Supper and the Virgin of the Rocks.
During a trip to Italy with his father in 1920, Giacometi saw paintings and sculptures which inspired him therefore he studied more in depth in sculpting. All of his early sculptures were all representational but then he started making more abstract pieces. Giacometti had always liked to experiment with different styles and sculpture. He was first influenced by cubism and the art work of Picasso, who he became friends with for a few years in Paris. Then his work started to show the influence of surrealism.
Other schools arose in Tournai, Ghent, and Louvain.” (http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0001335.html). So, you know that Jan did have some schooling; he also knew how to write in Greek. Jan was Influenced by his brother Hubert van Eyck, and Robert Campin. It was said that Robert Campin was the first to use the skills of manuscript illumination in panel painting, but Historians think that it
Once he turned twelve years of age, he began an apprenticeship which lasted five years. During this time, he learned how to “depict perspective and proportion accurately” (Quazen). After turning eighteen, the Seville Painters Guild certified him as a master painter, which in turn, gave him the license to work as a qualified artist. As a result, he spent his years doing “various religious paintings, tavern pieces known as bodegónes and random aristocratic portraits” (don Quijote). However, Velazquez wanted to overturn his fate as a middle class man.
In Malta in 1608 he was involved in another brawl, and yet another in Naples in 1609, possibly a deliberate attempt on his life by unidentified enemies. By the next year, after a relatively brief career he was dead. Huge new churches and palazzi were being built in Rome in the decades of the late 16th and early 17th Centuries, and paintings were needed to fill them. Caravaggio's novelty was a radical naturalism which combined close physical observation with the dramatic contrasting bold with light and shadow affecting a whole composition. Between 1600–1606 he was considered the “Most famous painter in Rome In 1599 Caravaggio was contracted to decorate the Contarelli Chapel in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi with two works, the Martyrdom of Saint Matthew and Calling of Saint Matthew.
After his father died, Leon was brought in by his uncles, where he wrote his first book, “On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Letters.” He loved to write about classics, things dealing with love, virtues and failed relationships. In 1447 Leon became the papal inspector of monuments and also advised Pope Nicholas V on the new building projects in Rome. He completed many books and buildings before his death on April 25,1472 in Rome. His architecture was and never will be forgotten by the Italian people. Leon Battista Alberti was better known for his architecture than his writings.
In 1911, he was exposed for the first time by the works of the cubists Braque and Picasso, at an exhibition in Amsterdam. He later moved to Paris in 1912, where he lived and studied. In 1938, he moved to London for two years where he became befriended with a couple of artist. Mondrian moved to New York in October of 1940, where he concluded his career with monumental works. Piet Mondrian died of pneumonia in 1944 at a New York hospital.
Leonardo da Vinci was very talented he was great artist, but he he became famous because he was able to do so many other things he was painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and write. When he was about 15 years old Leonardo’s father took him to Florence Italy to train as a painter and sculptor in the studio of Andrea Del Verrocchio. He studied with this master until the age of twenty five. He drew and took many notes of what he observed. Leonardo used everything he learned from nature and science to paint.
Jean Ipousteguy Jean Robert Ipoustéguy was born as Jean Robert at Dun-sur-Meuse on 6 January 1920. From 1938 Ipoustéguy attended evening classes in painting and drawing taught by Robert Lesbounit in Paris. After serving in the military during the Second World War, Ipoustéguy tried to earn his livelihood by painting and did frescoes and stained-glass windows for St Jacques in Montrouge in 1947-48. Since Robert was such a common surname, Jean Robert assumed his mother's maiden name as his nom d'artiste: Ipoustéguy. In 1949, Ipoustéguy moved to Choisy-le-Roi and began to work on sculpture.
However he does write with lots of detail about the events that happen, and often writes about his emotions. The following quote is from when Keith moved to France and first saw the "chateau" that he had bought. When I first saw Nellcote, I thought that I could probably handle a spell of exile. It was the most amazing house, right at the base of Cap Ferrat, looking out over Villefranche Bay. It had been built around the 1890s by an English banker, with a large garden, a little overgrown, behind great iron gates.