The great artist made many pieces, but his most famous were The Pieta, The David, …show more content…
Mona Lisa or Lisa Gherardini was the wife of Francesco Giocondo. Da Vinci also painted The Last Supper, a painting depicting Jesus with his disciples at the Last Supper. It was painted in 1495 on the wall of the dining hall of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. Leonardo da Vinci was an inventor and he invented some things that we still use today. For example, he invented the armored car. The predecessor to the modern tank, Leonardo da Vinci’s armored car invention was capable of moving in any direction and was equipped with many weapons. This was the most famous of da Vinci’s war machines. The armored car was designed to intimidate and scatter the enemy. Also, Leonardo designed the
Finally, there is Raphael Sanzio da Urbino. He was never as famous as the previous two, but nonetheless was still a great artist. Raphael was born on April 6, 1483 in Urbino, Italy. His father, who died when he was eleven-years-old, was a painter and he taught Raphael the basics of painting. When Raphael became of age he took over his father’s business and was quite good at it. Better than his father in fact. He was so good that churches, like the Church of San Nicola, for example, hired him to paint for