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“Leonardo da Vinci”Leonardo di ser Piero da VinciApril 15, 1452 - May 02, 1519"Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper"
Leonardo da Vinci was concerned with the laws of science and
nature, which greatly informed his work as a
painter, sculptor, inventor and
draftsmen. His ideas and body of work --
which includes Virgin of the Rocks,The Last
Supper, Leda and the
Swan and Mona Lisa -- have influenced
countless artists and made
da Vinci a leading light of the Italian Renaissance.
Self-portrait in red chalk,
Royal Library of Turin Circa 1512 to 1515
At the age of 14, da Vinci began
apprenticing with the artist Verrocchio. For six years, he learned a
wide breadth of technical skills,
including metalworking, leather
arts, carpentry, drawing and sculpting.
By the age of 20, he had qualified as a master artist in the Guild of
Saint Luke and established his own
workshop.
Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda or La Joconde) is a sixteenth-century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel in Florence, Italy by Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci during the Renaissance. The work is currently owned by the Government of France and is on display at the Louvre museum in Paris under the title Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo. Arguably, it is the most famous and iconic paintingin the world.
This is a sixteenth-century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel
in Florence, Italy during the Renaissance.
The work is currently owned by the
Government of France and is on display at the Louvre museum in Paris
under the title:
“Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of
Francesco del Giocondo”
Mona LisaLa Gioconda or La
Joconde
Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda or La Joconde) is a sixteenth-century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel in Florence, Italy by Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci during the Renaissance. The work is currently owned by the Government of France and is on display at the Louvre museum in Paris under the title Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo. Arguably, it is the most famous and iconic paintingin the world.
The painting is a half-length portrait and depicts a woman
whose facial expression is
frequently described as enigmatic.
Others believe that the slight smile is an indication that the subject is hiding a
secret.
The Last Supper specifically portrays the reaction given by each
apostle when Jesus said one of them would betray him. All twelve apostles have different reactions to the news, with various degrees of
anger and shock.
Leonardo began work on The Last
Supper in 1495 and completed it in
1498—he did not work on the
painting continuously.
The beginning date is not certain, as
the archives of the convent for the
period have been destroyed and a document dated
1497 indicates that the painting was
nearly completed at that date.
A drawing created by
da Vinci in Circa 1490. It is
accompanied by notes based on the
work of the architect Vitruvius.
The drawing, which is in pen and ink on
paper, depicts a male figure in two
superimposed positions with his
arms and legs apart and simultaneously inscribed in a circle
and square.
VITRUVIAN MAN Canon of
Proportions or, Proportions of
Man.
Siege Machine, c. 1480
View of a Skull, c. 1489
Study of Skeletons
Design for a Flying Machine, c. 1488
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
“Jan Vermeer”Johannes VermeerOctober 31, 1632 - December 16, 1675“Little Street” and “View of Delft”
For a long time relatively little was
known about Vermeer's life. He
seems to have been exclusively devoted to his art, living out his life in the city of
Delft. In the 19th century the only
sources of information were
some registers, a few official documents and comments by
other artists; it was for this reason that
Thoré Bürger named him "The Sphinx of
Delft"
The Procuress
1656 Oil-on-canvas painting which shows a genre
scene in a brothel - one of the two women is
the eponymous procuress while the
figure on the left has been
identified by some as a self portrait of the
artist.
View of Delft is an oil painting painted ca. 1660-1661, the
painting of the Dutch artist's hometown is among his most
popular.
The Girl with the Wine Glass
1659-1660 painting
by Johannes Vermeer, now in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in
Braunschweig
1664-65
Oil on canvas, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York
Young woman with
a water pitcher
The Milkmaid
An oil-on-canvas painting of a "milkmaid",
in fact a domestic
kitchen maid.
It is now in the Rijksmuseuin Amsterdam,Netherlands,
which regards it as
"unquestionably one of the
museum's finest attractions“.
Girl with a Pearl Earring
This is considered a Vermeer masterpiec
e.
http://www.biography.com/people/leonardo-da-vinci-40396?page=2
http://www.drawingsofleonardo.org/
http://www.biography.com/people/jan-vermeer-9517541
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Vermeer