Physics (history)
Physics began when man first started to study his surroundings. Early applications of physics include the invention of the wheel and of primitive weapons. The people who built Stone Henge had knowledge of physical mechanics in order to move the rocks and place them on top of each other. It was not u....

Baccio Della Porta
Baccio Della Porta Even the average person with little or no background in art may have heard the names Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, or Raphael. Not only because they are the most famous and noteworthy painters, sculptors, draughtsmen, designers, and inventors of the high renaissance, but also....

Baroque
Art has been around for centuries and every art and artist has different meanings and expressions in the pictures that are painted. Some paintings come from real life experiences that happen to people way back in the sixteenth centuries and even now. Art can be used to tell the world how you or some....

Basquait and his manipulation of colour
"Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitary use of colour to express myself more forcefully ... To express the love of two lovers by the marriage of two complementary colours ... To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of a light tone against a dark ba....

Culture and Intellectual Life
Theme: Culture and Intellectual Life. Throughout history, many cultures have experienced a Golden Age when great advances were made in a society of different fields. The Renaissance in Europe, and the Islamic world from the 8th through the 12th centuries. Both of these cultures went through Golde....

Da Vinci
I chose Leonardo Da Vinci as the greatest renissance personality. I chose Da Vinci because he made many contributions to the time period. Da Vinci was an artist, a scientist, and a philosopher. A lot of the famous artists and thinkers of the time werent recognized as being great for many years aft....

Da Vinci and Geometry
Leonardo Da Vinci Da Vinci extensively used geometry in his works of art. He applied the ideas of geometric order and patterns in his art to maintain proper proportions. Da vinci used concepts such as linear perspective, proportion, and geometry in his artwork. Leonardo studied linear perspe....

Dental History
In the beginning there were dinosaurs. Then came the people. For as long as people have had teeth, there has always been someone trying to fix them. Thus the dentist was born! Dentistry has a long and distinguished, not to mention interesting history. Anyone interested in dentistry should know a b....

Everafter - an interpretation of the classic Cinderella story
The film Everafter is a re-interpretation of the classic Cinderella fairytale; however it challenges this with gender, multi dimensional characters, realism and a complex plot giving emphasis on social justice issues. The main way Everafter challenges the Cinderella fairytale is through the femal....

Father of Accounting
Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli was born around the year of 1445. He was born in Borgo Sansepolcro, Tuscany, located in the heart of Italy. He greatly attributed to the accounting system through all of his work which includes the double-entry accounting system, balance sheet, income statement, the....

history of photography
A brief History of Photography from its beginnings till the 1920s Robert Leggat first began photography at the age of eight. He still remembers the excitement when his first pictures emerged - only two out of twelve - and still finds it exciting when a print begins to appear in the developi....

History of Physics
Physics began when man first started to study his surroundings. Early applications of physics include the invention of the wheel and of primitive weapons. The people who built Stone Henge had knowledge of physical mechanics in order to move the rocks and place them on top of each other. It was not u....

HUmanism and Renaissance
The "Renaissance," or rather the rebirth of civilization, describes the intellectual and economic changes that occurred in Europe from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries. The Renaissance was not only a Middle of Age era of resurrecting the past, but a time when artistic, social, and pol....

Intellectual Life of the Painters of the Early Renaissance
Before attempting to answer the question it is important to consider what we mean by early Italian Renaissance. Unlike many periods in history the Renaissance has no obvious start and end dates, for the purposes of this assignment I will define the approximate period within which to look as about 13....

Italian City
The Renaissance was the period from 1350-1600. The Renaissance began first in the city-states of Italy for many reasons. Although most of Europe had become a big economic crisis during the late Middle Ages, Italy managed to avoid everything and their towns remained important centers of Mediterranean....

Italian Renaissance
From the end of the 13th century to about 1600 the start of one of the greatest cultural enlightenments in Europe began in Italy. The Italian Renaissance was filled with cultural and artistic achievements and acted as a transition from the Dark Ages of intellectual stagnancy and Early Modern Europe.....

Italy
ITALIAN REPUBLIC I. INTRODUCTION The Italian Republic, most known as Italy, is a peninsula located in the south-central part of the European mainland, and it is known for its "boot-shaped". It is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea and bordering Austria, France, Switzerland, and Slovenia. Italy als....

Italy
Italy Home to a beautiful array of majestic mountains, placid lakes, and idyllic islands, Italy is a gorgeous country that blends together artistic treasures, friendly people, a beautiful language, fascinating history, and great food. Italy is called il Belpaese or "beautiful country" by its inha....

Jaques Louis David
1.IntroductionSet on a stage of revolution and Enlightenment, the Neo-Classical period presents a broad and interesting topic. Jacques Louis David was the first political painter, and a true revolutionary, but one cannot disengage his art work from the social and political systems of the period. The....

Joseph Beuys.. cult figure, icon or deluded fantasist?
JOSEPH BEUYS..CULT FIGURE, ICON OR DELLUDED FANTASIST? Joseph Beuys plays a major role in art history and can be considered extremely influential in the post 1945 realms of sculpture and performance art. He seems to have excelled beyond the title of "artist" to adopt a cult status and has even....

leonardo da vinci
A Renaissance Man can be defined as a man who has broad intellectual interests and is accomplished in areas of both the arts and the sciences. One of the most noted renaissance men is Leonardo da Vinci. He is best known for his masterpieces the Last Supper, Mona Lisa, and Madonna on the ....

Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci , 14521519, Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist, b. near Vinci, a hill village in Tuscany. The versatility and creative power of Leonardo mark him as a supreme example of Renaissance genius. He depicted in his drawings, with scientific precisio....

Leonardo da vinci
Leonardo da Vinci Born: 1452 Died: 1519 Occupation: Italian artist, scientist, and engineer Giorgio Vasari justly began the third part of his Lives of the Painters (the High Renaissance section) with Leonardo, commenting that the artist "endowed his figures with motion and breath." Leonardo wa....

Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper
Leonardo's "Last Supper" is a priceless piece of art with much hidden meaning and obvious talentsbestowed upon a wall. Under the study of Verrocchio as a painter and a sculptor, he was able to use hisskills in creating a very detailed and a very naturalistic piece of work that would be remembered f....

Louvre
THE LOUVRE Pierre Lescot ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Paris, France, begun....

Martin Luther
When studying the facets of Western Civilization, a few recurring questions must be analyzed. Will those in power abuse it? Unfortunately, yes. Does freedom spawn intellectual, technological and social progress? For the most part, yes. Was Martin Luther, in historical terms, a bad ass?Carter Li....

Michelangelo
Michelangelo was an optimist in his artwork. Michelangelo's artwork consisted of paintings and sculptures that showed humanity in it's natural state. Michelangelo's poetry was pessimistic in his response to Strazzi even though he was complementing him. Michelangelo's sculpture brought out his optimi....

Michelangelo
Michelangelo was pessimistic in his poetry and an optimist in his artwork. Michelangelos artwork consisted of paintings and sculptures that showed humanity in its natural state. Michelangelos poetry was pessimistic in his response to Strazzi even though he was complementing him. Michelangelo....

Michelangelo
Michelangelo <~His Life and Times~> His Life and Times He worked from a scaffold, on his back, with paint dripping into his face and eyes, and muscle cramps in his extended arm and his back. He seldom stopped to eat, munching instead on a piece of stale bread he took to the scaffold with him. A....

Michelangelo Buonarroti, the artist.
"Arguably one of the most inspired creators in the history of art and, with Leonardo da Vinci, the most potent force in the Italian High Renaissance. As a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, he exerted a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent Western art in general." ....

Michelangelo: A True Man of the Renaissance
The Renaissance was an era of time during which Europe transformed from the serious and harsh Middle Ages into a culture of prosperity and self-expression. The Renaissance began in Florence, Italy. The culture grew and grew and grew. It expanded into all of Europe. Soon everyone was under the ....

Renaissance
Renaissance The Renaissance was a series of literary and cultural movements in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. These movements began in Italy and eventually expanded into Germany, France, England, and other parts of Europe. Their think....

shock art
Performance: State of the Art Can Shock Art and its development in time still be considered as art? Can there be an answer? Shock art is any type of artwork that employs shock to make a point, ask a question, or purely to capture the audience's attention. These days everything h....

The Da Vinci Code, The Last Supper
Millions of people from all cultures and religions have heard about, and have been caught up in the story of the Da Vinci Code. We find ourselves asking the questions, what is true? What is fiction? Clearly some things are true. There was a painting, The Last Supper, done by Leonardo da Vinci this i....

The Erotic Triangles of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Sparks
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Sparks takes place in the early pre-WWII years of the 1930s in Edinburgh, Scotland. Jean Brodie is a teacher in the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, a conservative and traditional private school. She is a teacher that is determined to make a deep, lasting imp....

the prime of miss jean brodie
characters Mr. Teddy Lloyd Teddy Lloyd is the "art master" and the man whom Miss Brodie loves and desires. He is a happily married man with children and from a strong catholic background. For these reasons the relationship between himself and Miss. Brodie is forbidden despite the fact that ....

Use of Tone by an Author
Websters Dictionary defines tone as a style or manner of expression in speaking or writing. Tone is a method in which an author conveys how they feel about the subject to which they are writing about. Tone is critical to the meaning of novels. Two novels to which tone is extraordinarily impo....

Who is the best renaissance artist?
WHO WAS THE BEST RENAISSANCE ARTIST- LEONARDO OR MICHELANGELO? I am going to be explaining who out of Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo is the best renaissance artist. I will be using examples of paintings and statues from both artists to justify my choice The first category I will be explaini....

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