Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a painter‚ architect‚ inventor‚ and a scientific student. He was such a natural genius that he embodied the term “Renaissance man.” Today he is best known for his art‚ including two paintings that are the world’s most famous and admired‚ Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Using a technique called "hatching"‚ he worked by sketching in series of short‚ quickly-drawn parallel lines. He also developed various personal drawing tricks‚ including curved
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making Leonardo a pioneer of virtual reality. The magic of the Mona Lisa’s smile is that it seems to react to our gaze. What is she thinking? She smiles back mysteriously. Look again. Her smile seems to flicker. We glance away‚ and the enigmatic smile lingers in our minds‚ as it does in the collective mind of humanity. In no other painting are motion and emotion‚ the paired touchstones of Leonardo’s art‚ so intertwined. The artist Giorgio Vasari‚ a near-contemporary‚ told of how Leonardo kept Lisa
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The world has constantly changed throughout the ages‚ the one big turning point that changed how the world works today through its timeless music‚ art‚ philosophy‚ and discoveries is the Renaissance. The Renaissance was an important time in European society; the people had grown into something more than the people before them in the ways of culture. People say that it was just a time of intellectual and cultural learning‚ but the art‚ music‚ and literature shows just how important it really was
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Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11‚ 1974)[1] is an award winning American film actor. He gained worldwide fame for his role as Jack Dawson in Titanic and has starred in many other successful films including Romeo + Juliet‚ Catch Me If You Can‚ and Blood Diamond. He has appeared in Martin Scorsese’s recent films Gangs of New York‚ The Aviator‚ and The Departed‚ causing people to compare this relationship to that from which actor Robert De Niro benefited early in his career.[2] DiCaprio is
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Leonardo Pisano Bigollo‚ better known as Fibonacci‚ was an Italian mathematician during the 13th century. He is often referred to as "the most talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages” due to his great contribution in European mathematics. When he was a young boy‚ Fibonacci went on a trip with his father to North Africa. It was there that he became familiar with Arabic mathematics. Using the knowledge he gained during his trip‚ he wrote a book titled “Liber Abaci” (Which translates to “Book
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Cited: Golding‚ William. Lord of the Flies. New York: The Berkley Group‚ 1954 The Rock‚ NLT ed. Wheaton‚ Illinois: Tyndale Inc.‚ 1998
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Leonardo da Vinci was one of the leading artists in the 16th century. One of his most famous works known as the Mona Lisa‚ was created in a time referred to as the High Renaissance. At this time education was valued‚ and art was advancing with mathematical‚ and liberal techniques that incorporated reality with the complementary‚ or "ideal"(pg.633). Another leading artist of Florence was Raphael‚ who found himself doing newlywed portraits of Agnolo Doni and Maddalena Strozzi. Divinci‚ the first
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Da Vinci and His Creations Of all the great masters during the Renaissance‚ the one that probably revolutionized the world the most was Leonardo da Vinci. He was an extraordinary artist dealing with sculpting‚ painting‚ and architecture. Da Vinci was also an outstanding scholar. He was an expert in mathematics‚ biology‚ anatomy‚ literature‚ and even more. The most interesting study that he undertook would have to be engineering. Leo’s creations were centuries ahead of his time. He made things from
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Biography of a Mathematician Introduction Leonardo da Vinci was a great mathematician whose contributions to the discipline were immense‚ especially in the field of geometry. Besides being a mathematician‚ Leonardo da Vinci was a renowned painter‚ inventor‚ architect‚ and a student of scientific concepts (Cremante‚ Leonardo & Pedretti‚ 2005). Since Leonardo’s natural genius encompassed several disciplines‚ he personified the term “Renaissance man.” At present‚ Leonardo is best acknowledged for his art masterpieces
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Renaissance was Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo Da Vinci was a very famous painter and inventor. He was born on April 15‚ 1452. Leonardo was most well known for the Mona Lisa painting. Leonardo Da Vinci was also known for inventing a lot of things as well. One of his many inventions was the Parachute. Leonardo was raised by his father and his stepmother’s. Leonardo had many friends that were Interested in the same work as him. Leonardo really didn’t have any close relationship with women. Leonardo did how
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