Another one some normal people may know of is the huge mural type painting of The Last Supper, that was painted on the wall of the dining hall in the monastery of Santa Maria Delle Grazie in Malan, Italy. ... Surprisingly the mastery is in none of the well known paintings like The Mona Lisa or The Last Supper. ... The Last supper, two versions of The Virgin of Rocks, a ceiling painting in the Costello Sforzesco, and a few others (which have been lost somewhere in time or have disappeared). ... during 1513-1516, a few of his last years, Leonardo was in Rome because he was invited...

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Leonardo da Vinci, as an artist is probably most known for his pieces The Last Supper and Mona Lisa. The Last Supper is a beautiful painting of the moment when Jesus announces that someone at the table will betray him. ...

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There was one true Renaissance, and it occurred in Italy. The Renaissance was period from 1350 until 1600 during which western Europeans experienced a profound cultural awakening. This time period began the first city-states in Italy, which had luckily helped Italy avoid economic crisis. The Italian...

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"There has never been an artist who was more fittingly, and without qualification, described as a genius." Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452, in Vinci, Italy. He was the illegitimate child of father Ser Piero and mother Caterina. He lived with his father after birth, while his mothe...

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"The Da Vinci Code," written by Dan Brown, is an incredibly controversial book because of one specific topic; the claim that Mary Magdalene was married to Jesus and they had a child - creating a royal bloodline. This concept is called the sacred feminine. The reason many people find this so offensiv...

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Leonardo da Vinci is one of history's most brilliant minds. He's an artist known for his paintings, drawings of the human body, and as an inventor well ahead of his time. Some of his more famous works of art are "The Last Supper" and "The Vitruvian Man." But perhaps, his most famous and controversia...

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After researching Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, for example, Derek Haylock "finds that the famous opening 'motto' appears not only in the first and last bars (bar 601 before the Coda) but also exactly at the golden mean point 0.618 of the way through the symphony (bar 372)." ...

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