By: Rachel E-mail: shed30rar@aol.com Leonardo Fibonacci Leonardo Fibonacci was born in Pisa‚ Italy around 1175 to Guilielmo Bonacci. Leonardo’s father was the secretary of the Republic of Pisa and directed the Pisan trading colony. His father intended on Leonardo becoming a merchant. His father enlisted him in the Pisan Republic‚ sending him to various countries. As Leonardo continued to travel with his father‚ he acquired mathematical skills while in Bugia. Fibonacci continued to study throughout
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Distrustful‚ argumentative‚ creative and highly competitive‚ Michelangelo Buonarroti was a sculptor of genius. Ross King’s awe-inspiring book Michelangelo And The Pope’s Ceiling tells the story how this genius sculptor created one of the greatest treasures of The Renaissance‚ the ceiling frescos of the Sistine Chapel. King draws a written and interesting portrait of Michelangelo that includes family‚ his fellow artists‚ his chaotic life and times in a thirty-one chapter book. As King points out
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Leonardo da Vinci Early life: Leonardo was born on April 15‚ 1452‚ in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci‚ in the lower valley of the Arno River in the territory of Florence. Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci‚ a Florentine notary was his father‚ and Catherina‚ a peasant who may have been a slave from the Middle East was his mother. Leonardo had no surname in the modern sense‚ "da Vinci" simply meaning "of Vinci": his full birth name was "Leonardo di Ser Piero da Vinci"‚ meaning "Leonardo‚ son
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superhuman‚ the man himself mysterious and remote".[1] Marco Rosci states that while there is much speculation about Leonardo‚ his vision of the world is essentially logical rather than mysterious‚ and that the empirical methods he employed were unusual for his time Born out of wedlock to a notary‚ Piero da Vinci‚ and a peasant woman‚ Caterina‚ at Vinci in the region of Florence‚ Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter‚ Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent
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Mrs. Graham September 7‚ 2010 Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling “The hundred tons of Carrar marble was promptly carted from the Piazza San Pietro to the studio in Macella de Corvi. A full seven years after feeling Rome on horseback‚ Michelangelo finally returned to what he called his “true profession.”” This quote from Ross King’s novel‚ Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling tells the reader a lot about the famous Michelangelo. It talks about how Michelangelo had waiting for nearly seven years
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni) was born on March 6‚ 1475‚ in Caprese‚ Italy. His father worked for the Florentine government‚ and shortly after he was born his family returned to Florence‚ the city Michelangelo would always call his true home. His mother past away when he was 6‚ and at first his father did not approve of his son’s interest in art as a career. At 13‚ Michelangelo was apprenticed to painter Domenico Ghirlandaio‚ mainly known for his murals. A year
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Michelangelo was the greatest master of the human figure in the Renaissance and in his detailed masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel he proved that he was exactly that. The Last Judgment was a monumental piece of artwork that has so many expressive meanings all elaborately placed together to make one huge masterpiece. Michelangelo embodies different stories combined into one that all have separate religious meaning. He expressed the church reform and shows nudity that was not highly accepted; on the
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The Last Judgment Michelangelo was one of the greatest artists of all time. He excelled in architecture‚ sculpture‚ painting‚ poetry‚ and engineering. He was a true Renaissance man who lived a long emotional life. In painting "The Last Judgment‚" Michelangelo was able to incorporate all that he had learned about the human body. He was able to show the way the body moved‚ as well as its displays of unrestrained passion‚ overwhelming grief‚ or endless torment. This is what makes "The Last Judgment"
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Michelangelo: The Sistine Chapel The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican City. It is one of the most famous and memorable pieces of art in the history of art. This beautiful piece of art history took a little over four years to complete. He started this project in July of 1508 and finished in October of 1512. Pope Julius II had requested Michelangelo paint the ceiling in the chapel. The Pope was strong-minded that Rome should be renovated to show its prior exaltation
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Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest and most ingenious men that history has produced. His contributions in the areas of art‚ science‚ and humanity are still among the most important that a single man has put forth‚ definitely making his a life worth knowing. Da Vinci‚ born on April 15‚ 1452‚ is credited with being a master painter‚ sculptor‚ architect‚ musician‚ engineer‚ and scientist. He was born an illegitimate child to Catherina‚ a peasant girl. His father was Ser Piero da Vinci‚ a public
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