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His real name was Tiziano Vecelli but he was known as Titian. He was a very famous venetian painter who lived to the age of 99. He mainly drew religions and mythological paintings. He was an apprentice for a while also. One of his most famous paintings is Assunta which is thought to have taken him 2 years to complete. I thought he was interesting because the way he painted and the colors he used for painting greatly helped painters in years to come. Assunta
Today some of the most famous and known paintings relate back to the Renaissance Period of history. Leonardo Da Vinci, an artist of the Renaissance, is well known throughout the world. Whether you are young or old everyone has probably heard of the Mona Lisa, this was one of his most famous works of art. Da Vinci also painted The Last Super He was born in 1452 and died in 1519. His style of painting was different than what was previously done before him. He started a new way of painting. He painted landscapes in the background of his paintings and he used light in a new way. This Website is a really good place to start to learn information about Da Vinci. In his paintings he left codes Hidden symbolizes, weird geometric shapes, writings, and in most paintings and drawings he did they had many layers on them. I personally think these codes are really interesting and a lot of things have been solved, but still some things are a mystery.
Galileo Galilei was born in 1564 in Pisa Italy. Before he became a scientist he discovered the law of the pendulum by observing a swinging lamp in a cathedral. This law would eventually be used to regulate clocks and made him famous. He also formulated the basic law of falling bodies, which he verified by careful measurements. He made improvements to the telescope (the first refracting one) with which he studied lunar craters, observed and analyzed sun spots, and discovered four moons revolving around Jupiter on the 7th of January 1610. They were named the Galilean moons in his honor. His discoveries with the telescope led him to agree with Copernican idea of the sun being the center of the universe. He is also known for his improvements to the design of the compass, a compound microscope, a thermometer, and the idea of using known planetary positions to calculate longitude. I thought this was interesting because he made many interesting instruments that are still used today.
He didn't have a surname but Da Vinci, simply means of Vinci, which was the town he was born in. His birth name was Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci which means Leonardo, son of Mes(ser) Piero from Vinci.
What I am interested in is the famous painting of Leonardo Da Vinci's The Last Supper, how is that connected to the book called Da Vinci's code, or how is Leonardo Da Vinci involved with the book?
I chose to do some more research on Michelangelo because I have heard his name a lot (for example: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) but I don’t really know what he did besides that he was a famous painter famous enough to get a ninja turtle named after him.
First I just got some basic information from wikipedia : he was born 1475 died 1564 and he wasn’t just a painter, he was a sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. He is a great example of a true "Renaissance man". "His father, Lodovico di Leonardo di Buonarroti di Simoni, was the resident magistrate in Caprese and podestà of Chiusi. His mother was Francesca di Neri del Miniato di Siena". So he was born into a high class family.
I also found another Biography of Michelangelo which has some pretty interesting stuff. I found it interesting that Michelangelo did so many things, like it says here that he studied anatomy.
I also found it interesting that he made a huge fresco in the Council Hall of the Florentine Republic. I remember learning about frescos before( but I forgot where).
The fresco contains a whole lot of Christian depictions (The Pope asked him to do this) and contains 9 scenes from Genesis, shields, the 12 prophets, sibyls (prophetic women), pedentives, ancestors of Christ, and more.
Some questions: 1. I know that DaVinci put his own interpretation of things into "The last Supper", did Michelangelo do anything like this? If he did would it upset the Pope?
Did he receive a lot of praise for this? Did people like it?
Filippo Brunelleschi was born and raised in Florence, Italy in 1377. he started off trying to become an apprentice for a gold smith. He became a master gold smith after only 6 years of becoming an apprentice. this was interesting because its like being hired by a company and becoming CEO only 6 years later. what was the normal time that this took? He developed an interest in math and architecture and continued his studies in rome. he built many churches including the church of san lorenzo and the cathedral of florence. he was known as the father of architecture in the Renaissance and was the most prevalent in Italy
Galileo Galilei was the son of a court musician, so he grew up in around the Medici household. He had a very intellectual nature, and in 1611, he was offered by the Grand Duke Ferdinand I the position of the Royal Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy. He became very famous throughout Europe, and he was supported by the Medici. Galileo "proved that objects fall at the same rate of acceleration" 500 years before Newton's theory of gravity, which I found fascinating because I always associated Newton with the theory of gravity, but it had actually been proved 500 prior.
I also found it particularly interesting that Galileo was actually politically astute. He named Jupiter's moons after the Medici, to ensure own his success and fame.
Galileo however went against the Church's belief (that the sun and all other planets revolved around the earth) by stating that the earth revolved around the sun. Despite his knowledge of the danger he had put himself in, Galileo refused to take back his belief (pretty brave and honorable man in my opinion), and the Pope Urban VIII (or the Pope's officials), despite the Duke's pleas, arrested Galileo. Galileo died in 1642, to none of the fame that he had previously had.
I was amazed that it wasn't until 1992 that the Vatican did actually accept and announce that the earth in fact revolves around the sun.
My questions are: 1) Did the Vatican really keep Christians from believing that the earth revolved around the sun? Or did almost everyone know that? 2) When did the Church begin to say that the sun revolved around the earth? Maybe was it after the split in 1054?
I am interested in learning about art in the Renaissance period-- specifically Leonardo Da Vinci. He was born April 15, 1452 in Vinci Florence (in present day Italy). (i got that from wikipedia) Leonardo was and is best known as an artist, the creator of such masterpieces as the Mona Lisa, Madonna of the Rocks, and The Last Supper. Yet Leonardo was far more than a great artist: he had one of the best scientific minds of his time. (http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/vinci.html)
I find him very interesting because his paitings are in one of my favorite books in The Da Vinci Code-- and when I think of this movie and him I think of the Last Supper he painted of Jesus and his 12 disciples. --Because his employer requested he do so. Leonardo worked for Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, for nearly eighteen years (1482-99). The Duke decided he wanted this particular religious scene painted and Leonardo, who was not stupid, decided painting it made perfect financial sense. (http://arthistory.about.com/cs/leonardo/a/last_supper.htm)
Giotto was a Florentine painter. He took what he saw in life and then painted it just like it really was. He was one of the first people to use 3D in their paintings. Most people's paintings were flat and lifeless. Giotto is most know for his painting "Adoration of the Magi". Here is a picture of that painting.
A few questions... When did he live? What social class did he fall into? When did he start painting and becoming popular? Did he paint paintings to influence people?
I wanted to know about Galileo Galilei. I remember my fifth grade math teacher talking a little it about what he has done for mathematics, and astronomy. Like the wiki about Galileo, my math teacher called him "the father of science".
The catholic church denounced his beliefs in heliocentrism (the belief that the sun is the center of the solar system). The reason that the Catholic church denounced his beliefs was that there was no proof of this being true (heliocentrism) in the Bible.
He was the man who came up with:
- The law of falling objects - The law of floating objects - The Law of the Pendulum
He also improved on a lot the major scientific instruments also.
Ok, so in tradition Harry fashion, I decided to choose a Brit...
So of course I chose probably the most famous British figure of the Renaissance- William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare was born in 1564 and died in 1616. He lived a fairly rich life, especially considering that he was born to an average family, while they had money, they weren't fabulously wealthy and by the end of his life he had extensive estate. The interesting thing about how became rich was how he made his money. William was one of an emerging Middle Class that came about due to agricultural surplus. However, he didn't make his money through a business, no instead he made his money through being a playwright, something that was frowned upon during the Renaissance in the British Isles.
What made this interesting for me was how he became one of the most famous artists (general) in history after his death. I also felt that he made his money through an honest trade; he didn't just get money from people working for him.
And of course, questions:
1) The Renaissance inspired a large amount of Creativity in places such as Italy, yet at the same time, England was becoming a world power, so did the renaissance begin England's expansion as a world power?
2) William Shakespeare was a great playwright. Where do the royalties that he (supposedly) gets when people buy his plays?
Machiavelli is known today for the book he wrote, 'the prince' (by prince it means ruler). It is an example of the political philosophy known as realism (as opposed to idealism), in which the ends mostly justify the means, and bad acts are acceptable as long as they produce results. Though the term 'machiavellian' comes from him, it is an innacurate description of Machiavelli's policies, as some of the less moral aspects of Machiavelli's theories were exaggerated, or in some cases, Machiavelli was actually being sarcastic at some points in his book.
The person I found interesting was Filippo Brunelleschi. I chose him because I'm interested in ancient architecture, I love all of the detail. Filippo was said to be a problem solver and the first modern engineer and a problem-solver with unorthodox methods. I think it's amazing that he designed the largest dome in the world. I also find it interesting that it was said that he learned fundamental architectural skills such as mounting, engraving and embossing and studied the science of motion, using wheels, gears, cogs and weights from a young age. He is also important in that he was said to be the first architect of the Renaissance. I found this site on Brunelleschi which states some of his accomplishments.
Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452, and died in 1519. He was Italian and he was a mathematician, scientist, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician, and writer. Some paintings by Leonardo Da Vinci are The Last Supper, Adoration of the Magi (which is unfinished), The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, Virgin of the Rocks, The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist, and St. Jerome in the Wilderness. Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, which could be claimed to be the most famous painting. Leonardo Da Vinci created a new style of painting that no one had ever done before in his time. Leonardo Da Vinci really interests me because of the codes he put in his painting I think its just amazing how someone could do that.
After reading, I wanted to find out some facts about Filippo Brunelleschi...
Several websites I found say that he was born in 1377, but don't give an exact date. Wikipedia says that he became a Master Goldsmith in 1398, just 22 years old, which I think is pretty impressive. However, he didn't make it as a goldsmith; he made it as an architect, although little is known about how he made that transition.
Brunelleschi was apparently friends with Donatello, and it says that they traveled to Rome together to study ruins, which may have been part of his inspiration. Throughout his life, he was commissioned to design several buildings. I found some pictures of ones that I found most impressive:
Ospedale degli Innocenti, which was an orphanage, was the first building in Florence to borrow its style from Classical Antiquity.
Florence Cathedral, although he only designed the dome, I thought was very impressive (this picture is really awesome, too).
Basilica of Saint Lawrence, this time he designed the whole thing. I thought that this was the best design out of all of the ones I saw.
Giovanni was born in Venice in 1430 where he was later raised by his mother and father, Jacopo Bellini and Anna Reversi. Giovanni's father, Jacopo, was also an Italian Renaissance artist.
Before Giovanni became popular he was an apprentice in his father's workshop. Then a little while later Giovanni died at the age of 86 in 1516. He was buried in Venice. A while after his death most of his greatest works were destroyed in a church fire in the year of 1577.
Bellini is remembered for the realistic landscapes and the harmony of light, color, and mood.
Giovanni had some very beautiful effects in the way he painted. His paintings have a hazy warm light. The colours are deep and glowing. Light and shade give the paintings a softening effect. He painted in oils.
Bellini painted a lot of religious scenes and he was a very good at landscapes. He brought painting to a new degree of realism. Bellini became one of the greatest painters of the Renaissance.
this information was found on a very nice website all about Giovanni Bellini.
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His real name was Tiziano Vecelli but he was known as Titian. He was a very famous venetian painter who lived to the age of 99. He mainly drew religions and mythological paintings. He was an apprentice for a while also. One of his most famous paintings is Assunta which is thought to have taken him 2 years to complete. I thought he was interesting because the way he painted and the colors he used for painting greatly helped painters in years to come.
Assunta
Today some of the most famous and known paintings relate back to the Renaissance Period of history. Leonardo Da Vinci, an artist of the Renaissance, is well known throughout the world. Whether you are young or old everyone has probably heard of the Mona Lisa, this was one of his most famous works of art. Da Vinci also painted The Last Super
He was born in 1452 and died in 1519. His style of painting was different than what was previously done before him. He started a new way of painting. He painted landscapes in the background of his paintings and he used light in a new way.
This Website is a really good place to start to learn information about Da Vinci. In his paintings he left codes Hidden symbolizes, weird geometric shapes, writings, and in most paintings and drawings he did they had many layers on them. I personally think these codes are really interesting and a lot of things have been solved, but still some things are a mystery.
Galileo Galilei was born in 1564 in Pisa Italy. Before he became a scientist he discovered the law of the pendulum by observing a swinging lamp in a cathedral. This law would eventually be used to regulate clocks and made him famous. He also formulated the basic law of falling bodies, which he verified by careful measurements. He made improvements to the telescope (the first refracting one) with which he studied lunar craters, observed and analyzed sun spots, and discovered four moons revolving around Jupiter on the 7th of January 1610. They were named the Galilean moons in his honor. His discoveries with the telescope led him to agree with Copernican idea of the sun being the center of the universe. He is also known for his improvements to the design of the compass, a compound microscope, a thermometer, and the idea of using known planetary positions to calculate longitude. I thought this was interesting because he made many interesting instruments that are still used today.
Galileo Inventions
Leonardo Da Vinci was born April 15, 1452 in the town claimed by Florence called Vinci.
A Picture of the House Leonardo Grew Up In
He didn't have a surname but Da Vinci, simply means of Vinci, which was the town he was born in. His birth name was Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci which means Leonardo, son of Mes(ser) Piero from Vinci.
What I am interested in is the famous painting of Leonardo Da Vinci's The Last Supper, how is that connected to the book called Da Vinci's code, or how is Leonardo Da Vinci involved with the book?
I chose to do some more research on Michelangelo because I have heard his name a lot (for example: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) but I don’t really know what he did besides that he was a famous painter famous enough to get a ninja turtle named after him.
First I just got some basic information from wikipedia
: he was born 1475 died 1564 and he wasn’t just a painter, he was a sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. He is a great example of a true "Renaissance man". "His father, Lodovico di Leonardo di Buonarroti di Simoni, was the resident magistrate in Caprese and podestà of Chiusi. His mother was Francesca di Neri del Miniato di Siena". So he was born into a high class family.
I also found another Biography of Michelangelo which has some pretty interesting stuff. I found it interesting that Michelangelo did so many things, like it says here that he studied anatomy.
I also found it interesting that he made a huge fresco in the Council Hall of the Florentine Republic. I remember learning about frescos before( but I forgot where).
I also remember reading about the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. This is the same ceiling that has
The hand of God and Adam , which is a well known symbol. I was really interested in it so I just startes doing research on the Chapel on Wikipedia which has a really cool map of The pictoral elements of the huge painting in the Chapel
The fresco contains a whole lot of Christian depictions (The Pope asked him to do this) and contains 9 scenes from Genesis, shields, the 12 prophets, sibyls (prophetic women), pedentives, ancestors of Christ, and more.
Some questions:
1. I know that DaVinci put his own interpretation of things into "The last Supper", did Michelangelo do anything like this? If he did would it upset the Pope?
Did he receive a lot of praise for this? Did people like it?
Filippo Brunelleschi was born and raised in Florence, Italy in 1377. he started off trying to become an apprentice for a gold smith. He became a master gold smith after only 6 years of becoming an apprentice. this was interesting because its like being hired by a company and becoming CEO only 6 years later. what was the normal time that this took? He developed an interest in math and architecture and continued his studies in rome. he built many churches including the church of san lorenzo and the cathedral of florence. he was known as the father of architecture in the Renaissance and was the most prevalent in Italy
(I got this info from the PBS website)
Galileo Galilei was the son of a court musician, so he grew up in around the Medici household. He had a very intellectual nature, and in 1611, he was offered by the Grand Duke Ferdinand I the position of the Royal Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy. He became very famous throughout Europe, and he was supported by the Medici. Galileo "proved that objects fall at the same rate of acceleration" 500 years before Newton's theory of gravity, which I found fascinating because I always associated Newton with the theory of gravity, but it had actually been proved 500 prior.
I also found it particularly interesting that Galileo was actually politically astute. He named Jupiter's moons after the Medici, to ensure own his success and fame.
Galileo however went against the Church's belief (that the sun and all other planets revolved around the earth) by stating that the earth revolved around the sun. Despite his knowledge of the danger he had put himself in, Galileo refused to take back his belief (pretty brave and honorable man in my opinion), and the Pope Urban VIII (or the Pope's officials), despite the Duke's pleas, arrested Galileo. Galileo died in 1642, to none of the fame that he had previously had.
I was amazed that it wasn't until 1992 that the Vatican did actually accept and announce that the earth in fact revolves around the sun.
My questions are:
1) Did the Vatican really keep Christians from believing that the earth revolved around the sun? Or did almost everyone know that?
2) When did the Church begin to say that the sun revolved around the earth? Maybe was it after the split in 1054?
I also wanted to find what Galileo looked like so here's a text of linkpicture.
I am interested in learning about art in the Renaissance period-- specifically Leonardo Da Vinci. He was born April 15, 1452 in Vinci Florence (in present day Italy). (i got that from wikipedia) Leonardo was and is best known as an artist, the creator of such masterpieces as the Mona Lisa, Madonna of the Rocks, and The Last Supper. Yet Leonardo was far more than a great artist: he had one of the best scientific minds of his time. (http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/vinci.html)
I find him very interesting because his paitings are in one of my favorite books in The Da Vinci Code-- and when I think of this movie and him I think of the Last Supper he painted of Jesus and his 12 disciples. --Because his employer requested he do so. Leonardo worked for Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, for nearly eighteen years (1482-99). The Duke decided he wanted this particular religious scene painted and Leonardo, who was not stupid, decided painting it made perfect financial sense.
(http://arthistory.about.com/cs/leonardo/a/last_supper.htm)
Giotto was a Florentine painter. He took what he saw in life and then painted it just like it really was. He was one of the first people to use 3D in their paintings. Most people's paintings were flat and lifeless. Giotto is most know for his painting "Adoration of the Magi". Here is a picture of that painting.
A few questions...
When did he live? What social class did he fall into? When did he start painting and becoming popular? Did he paint paintings to influence people?
I wanted to know about Galileo Galilei. I remember my fifth grade math teacher talking a little it about what he has done for mathematics, and astronomy. Like the wiki about Galileo, my math teacher called him "the father of science".
The catholic church denounced his beliefs in heliocentrism (the belief that the sun is the center of the solar system). The reason that the Catholic church denounced his beliefs was that there was no proof of this being true (heliocentrism) in the Bible.
He was the man who came up with:
- The law of falling objects
- The law of floating objects
- The Law of the Pendulum
He also improved on a lot the major scientific instruments also.
Ok, so in tradition Harry fashion, I decided to choose a Brit...
So of course I chose probably the most famous British figure of the Renaissance- William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare was born in 1564 and died in 1616. He lived a fairly rich life, especially considering that he was born to an average family, while they had money, they weren't fabulously wealthy and by the end of his life he had extensive estate. The interesting thing about how became rich was how he made his money. William was one of an emerging Middle Class that came about due to agricultural surplus. However, he didn't make his money through a business, no instead he made his money through being a playwright, something that was frowned upon during the Renaissance in the British Isles.
What made this interesting for me was how he became one of the most famous artists (general) in history after his death. I also felt that he made his money through an honest trade; he didn't just get money from people working for him.
And of course, questions:
1) The Renaissance inspired a large amount of Creativity in places such as Italy, yet at the same time, England was becoming a world power, so did the renaissance begin England's expansion as a world power?
2) William Shakespeare was a great playwright. Where do the royalties that he (supposedly) gets when people buy his plays?
Machiavelli is known today for the book he wrote, 'the prince' (by prince it means ruler). It is an example of the political philosophy known as realism (as opposed to idealism), in which the ends mostly justify the means, and bad acts are acceptable as long as they produce results. Though the term 'machiavellian' comes from him, it is an innacurate description of Machiavelli's policies, as some of the less moral aspects of Machiavelli's theories were exaggerated, or in some cases, Machiavelli was actually being sarcastic at some points in his book.
The person I found interesting was Filippo Brunelleschi. I chose him because I'm interested in ancient architecture, I love all of the detail. Filippo was said to be a problem solver and the first modern engineer and a problem-solver with unorthodox methods. I think it's amazing that he designed the largest dome in the world. I also find it interesting that it was said that he learned fundamental architectural skills such as mounting, engraving and embossing and studied the science of motion, using wheels, gears, cogs and weights from a young age. He is also important in that he was said to be the first architect of the Renaissance.
I found
this site on Brunelleschi
which states some of his accomplishments.
Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452, and died in 1519. He was Italian and he was a mathematician, scientist, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician, and writer. Some paintings by Leonardo Da Vinci are The Last Supper, Adoration of the Magi (which is unfinished), The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, Virgin of the Rocks, The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist, and St. Jerome in the Wilderness.
Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, which could be claimed to be the most famous painting. Leonardo Da Vinci created a new style of painting that no one had ever done before in his time. Leonardo Da Vinci really interests me because of the codes he put in his painting I think its just amazing how someone could do that.
After reading, I wanted to find out some facts about Filippo Brunelleschi...
Several websites I found say that he was born in 1377, but don't give an exact date. Wikipedia says that he became a Master Goldsmith in 1398, just 22 years old, which I think is pretty impressive. However, he didn't make it as a goldsmith; he made it as an architect, although little is known about how he made that transition.
Brunelleschi was apparently friends with Donatello, and it says that they traveled to Rome together to study ruins, which may have been part of his inspiration. Throughout his life, he was commissioned to design several buildings. I found some pictures of ones that I found most impressive:
Ospedale degli Innocenti, which was an orphanage, was the first building in Florence to borrow its style from Classical Antiquity.
Florence Cathedral, although he only designed the dome, I thought was very impressive (this picture is really awesome, too).
Basilica of Saint Lawrence, this time he designed the whole thing. I thought that this was the best design out of all of the ones I saw.
Brunelleschi died on April 15, 1146.
Giovanni Bellini
Giovanni was born in Venice in 1430 where he was later raised by his mother and father, Jacopo Bellini and Anna Reversi. Giovanni's father, Jacopo, was also an Italian Renaissance artist.
Before Giovanni became popular he was an apprentice in his father's workshop. Then a little while later Giovanni died at the age of 86 in 1516. He was buried in Venice. A while after his death most of his greatest works were destroyed in a church fire in the year of 1577.
Bellini is remembered for the realistic landscapes and the harmony of light, color, and mood.
Giovanni had some very beautiful effects in the way he painted. His paintings have a hazy warm light. The colours are deep and glowing. Light and shade give the paintings a softening effect. He painted in oils.
Bellini painted a lot of religious scenes and he was a very good at landscapes. He brought painting to a new degree of realism. Bellini became one of the greatest painters of the Renaissance.
this information was found on a very nice website all about Giovanni Bellini.
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