Mona Lisa‚ Finding the Key to the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa‚ a painting created by a legendary painter: Leonardo da Vinci‚ leaves various codes and secrets evident in the painting that adds to its mysteriousness. People today have an obsession to finding out the secrets to unlocking the vault of art history. There are many theories that possibly explain the secrets of the painting: Mona Lisa. These theories are formed by the art experts who are curious on why the Mona Lisa was
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the home to Leonardo Da Vinci. Da Vinci was born on April 15‚ 1452. His father‚ Ser Piero‚ took custody of him very shortly after he was born because his mother‚ Caterina Da Vinci remarried and moved to another town. He came from a small Tuscan town near Florence and lived there until the 1480’s when he left for Milan. From the time he left for Milan he moved from place to
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advances from today‚ most artist and inventors are inspired by this man. Leonardo exemplified the resurgence‚ living‚ view‚ and producing art and technology that still characterizes that age of discovery. When people think of Leonardo da Vinci‚ usually the first thing that comes to mind is The Da Vinci Code with Tom Hanks. But in reality people would say he was one of the finest artistic and scientific men of the Italian Renaissance Age. “The Last Supper" and the "Mona Lisa" are among one of his
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The English language is nobody’s special property‚ it is the property of the imagination‚ it is the property of the language itself. For poet Derek Walcott the beauty of the English language lies in every single word he weaves together. His poems “a lesson for this for this Sunday is a metaphorical text on the morality of colonizers and those being colonized. The poem focuses on human nature’s inability to stay pure and the need to bend nature to its will. “The lesson is the same” is an extended
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His full birth name was "Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci"‚ meaning "Leonardo‚ of ser Piero from Vinci.” His natural genius crossed so many disciplines that he epitomized the term “Renaissance man.” Today he remains best known for his art‚ including two paintings that remain among the world’s most famous and admired‚ Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Art‚ da Vinci believed‚ was indisputably connected with science and nature. Biography Da Vinci had numerous skills that had given him the name of renaissance
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Works of Leonardo da Vinci Biography: One of the most creative minds of Italian Renaissance not only as a great painter but also as a skilled sculptor‚ architect and a talented engineer‚ Leonardo da Vinci was born on 15th April 1452 near the Tuscan town of Vinci. He was an illegitimate child of Ser Pierro da Vinci – an influential local lawyer and a young peasant girl named Caterina‚ who were in wedlock. Leonardo spent his early childhood till 1457 in a hamlet of Anchiano‚ 5 km from Vinci with his
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The Mona Lisa The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci was painted in Florence between 1503 and 1505. The painting is of Monna Lisa‚ the wife of Francesco del Giocondo‚ which is why the painting is also referred to as La Gioconda . Leonardo never actually gave the portrait to Francesco and instead kept it for himself. There have been many speculations of deeper meaning of the Mona Lisa. Some believe the painting is a female version of the artist himself‚ others believe the painting contains hidden images
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the painting at first glance is quite banal. It looks a lot like any run of the mill portrait with the subject positioned in the center while she sits facing and staring directly at the viewer. Even the colors are boring in this painting with its abundance of earth tones with different mellow shades of faded green‚ brown‚ blue‚ and burnt orange. The picture itself is only 30”x21” which is about double the size of the average college textbook. With all of the hallmarks of a picture that most people
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Period. The Last Supper‚ a common theme in Renaissance painting‚ depicts Christ surrounded by his twelve disciples‚ seated at a long dining table. Leonardo da Vinci‚ the great‚ ambitious‚ pioneer of painting during the High Renaissance‚ illustrated consistency and symmetry in his version‚ while Jacopo Robusti‚ known as Tintoretto‚ painted his Last Supper with dramatic power‚ depth of spiritual vision‚ and glowing color: common characteristics of Mannerist paintings. Leonardo da Vinci exhibited
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During the Renaissance‚ Leonardo da Vinci became a legend. He is noted as one of the greatest artists of his time as well as one of the greatest artists that ever lived. Throughout his life he accomplished many things and did them with astounding ability. Today people refer to someone who appears to have excelled in countless things as a “Renaissance Man”. Leonardo da Vinci is one of the best examples of this classification. Through always searching for more knowledge‚ he became well versed
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