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Palazzo Vecchio Ser Piero
1,058 wordsSometime soon after the year 1430, a bronze statue of David stood in the courtyard of the house of the Medici. The work was commissioned of Donatello by Cosimo d'Medici himself, the founding father of the Republic of Florence. It was the first free-standing, life sized nude since classical victorious athletes of Greece and Rome. But soft, and some how oddly unheroic. And the incongruity of the heads: of hair and shaded by a laurel-crowned peasant's hat; Goliath's tragic, contorted expression, ma...
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Leonardo Da Vinci Adoration Of The Magi
1,251 wordsThe objective of this essay is to provide an explanation of Leonardo da Vinci's life and work as an artist in context with his time spent in Milan. Following an initial introduction to Leonardo's formative years in Florence (and his apprenticeship to the sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio, 1435 - 88), I will attempt to explain the significance of his presence in Milan with detailed descriptions of his work there. Giorgio Vasari (1511 - 74) was also an artist and architect, but is perhaps...
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Scope Of Leonardo Da Vinci Work Beyond Art
1,081 wordsThe greatest gifts are often seen, in the course of nature, rained by celestial influences on human creatures; and sometimes, in supernatural fashion, beauty, grace, and talent are united beyond measure in one single person, in a manner that to whatever such an one turns his attention, his every action is so divine, that, surpassing all other men, it makes itself clearly known as a thing bestowed by God (as it is), and not acquired by human art. This was seen by all mankind in Leonardo da Vinci,...
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Duke Of Milan Battle Of Anghiari
2,451 wordsPainter, sculptor, inventor. Born April 15, 1452 near the village of Vinci, Italy. He was the illegitimate son of Ser Piero da Vinci, a prominent notary of Florence, who had no other children until much later. Ser Piero raised his son himself, a common practice at the time, arranging for Leonardo's mother to marry a villager. When Leonardo was 15, his father apprenticed him to Andrea del Verrocchio, the leading artist of Florence and a characteristic talent of the early Renaissance. A sculptor, ...
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Palazzo Vecchio Ser Piero
1,067 wordsThe Davids of the World Sometime soon after the year 1430, a bronze statue of David stood in the courtyard of the house of the Medici. The work was commissioned of Donatello by Cosimo d Medici himself, the founding father of the Republic of Florence. It was the first free-standing, life sized nude since classical victorious athletes of Greece and Rome. But soft, and some how oddly unheroic. And the incongruity of the heads: of hair and shaded by a laurel-crowned peasants hat; Goliath's tragic, c...
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Leonardo Da Vinci Adoration Of The Magi
2,544 wordsThe objective of this essay is to provide an explanation of Leonardo da Vinci s life and work as an artist in context with his time spent in Milan. Following an initial introduction to Leonardo s formative years in Florence (and his apprenticeship to the sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio, 1435 - 88), I will attempt to explain the significance of his presence in Milan with detailed descriptions of his work there. Giorgio Vasari (1511 - 74) was also an artist and architect, but is perhaps...
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