The Renaissance Period Perhaps one of the most famous Renaissance paintings is the Mona Lisa, painted by Italian artist, Leonardo da Vinci. ... Its predecessors were men like Dante and Petrarch, and its chief protagonists included Gianozzo Manetti, Leonardo Bruni, Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, Lorenzo Valla, and Coluccio Salutati. ... As time went on into the 1400's and 1500's, three men Michealangelo, Rapheal and Leonardo da Vinci dominated the field in the fine arts. ...

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As time went on into the 1400's and 1500's, three men Michealangelo, Rapheal, and Leonardo da Vinci dominated the field in the fine arts. ... Finally, there is Leonardo da Vinci, the model of the Renaissance Man, who excelled in all areas of the arts and sciences. ... Da Vinci made detailed drawings of human anatomy and skeletal structure, as he tried to understand how the human body worked. ...

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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian renaissance painter, scientist, musician, sculptor, mathematician, engineer and inventor (Janson, 242). ... Although Leonardo da Vinci made many contributions in the form of art, he is most known for "Virgin of the Rocks"" (1480's) "The Last Supper"" (1490's) and "Mona Lisa"" (1500's) (Gardner, 451). ... Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, most known as Raphael (1483-1520) was an artist during the High Renaissance period (Janson, 252). ... He along with Michelangelo and da Vinci are noted as the trinity masters of the Renaissance...

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Within Art there is many different Mediums, which you could choose from, as well as many different artists, but it wasn't hard to pick which artists and medium to pick for my research. The Statues of David caught my interest from the beginning of Art Appreciation, even though we didn't study them u...

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The Great Depression is something our nation as well as the rest of the world will likely never forget. The time period from the early 1930s to –in some cases – the end of World War 2 was the worst depression of the 20th century and is still used as an example of just how bad our economy can get...

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If one were to gaze upon the statue of "David" by Michelangelo (1475-1564), they would notice the high esteem in which the human body was portrayed. The sculpture almost appears to be a person itself, so real, proportionate, and beautiful that it is uncanny to fathom that it is an interpretation by an artist. The pride and appreciation exhibited in the work of art for the human physique demonstrated the humanistic ideas of the Renaissance. Humanism was not only a "respect for the individual, independent thought ", and the human body, but was an intellectual movement of the Renaissance based on...

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Machiavelli, along with a supportive friend, asked Leonardo da Vinci, a brilliant artist, scientist, architect, and engineer, to help design a system of canals that would divert the Arno River, crushing their enemy Pisa. ...

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Secondly, the positioning of his hand, in a blessing motion, combined with the extreme symmetry of the "disciples" could possibly be a reference Leonardo Da Vinci's 1497 Mural "The Last Supper". ...

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In Rome, Michael completed the Pieta and returned to Florence, where his rivalry with Leonardo Da Vinci summoned the interest of Pope Julius who will keep the Master Sculpture under contracts for a good portion of his life under such commissions as the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, his own sarcophagus, and a bronze statue of himself. ...

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