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Rembrandt van Rijn Biography
2008-01-21 20:03:00 Born July 15, 1606, in Leiden, The Netherlands, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn is considered one of the greatest artists in European art history, and a major contributor to the Golden Age of Dutch Art. He was the ninth child in a well-to-do family, he attended Latin school as a boy, and then the University of Leiden, where he showed an inclination toward painting. He was apprenticed to several artists, most notably Pieter Lastman, before opening his own studio with several friends before he was twenty. In 1627, Rembrandt was already teaching his own students. Rembrandt was ‘discovered’ by Constantijn Huygens, who began to commission important works for display in the palace at The Hague. This led to Rembrandt producing works for Prince Frederik Hendrik for many years. In 1931, Rembrandt moved to the newly burgeoning Amsterdam, where he began to work professionally as a portrait painter. Upon his arrival in Amsterdam, Rembrandt stayed with an art dealer, Hendrick van Uylenbu... More About: Biography
List of Articles on Leonardo Da Vinci
2008-01-19 15:06:00 Listed below are the articles that we have written on some of Da Vinci ’s paintings. As with all our articles, they are 100% unique, with information and images from all the very latest findings, discoveries and theories. The Mona Lisa The Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci Analysis of the Mona Lisa Features of the Mona Lisa Mona Lisa ? Simple ... More About: Articles , List , Paintings , Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci?s Artistic Technique
2008-01-19 11:54:00 With painting as his art form, Leonardo Da Vinci proved to be one of the greatest artists who ever lived. The techniques he created in those years are considered to have been revolutionary to the world of art and today are studied as founding pillars of the Renaissance and movements that followed. His palette in particular ... More About: Technique , Paintings , Leonardo da Vinci
The Real Da Vinci Code
2008-01-19 09:41:00 To say Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a genius is falling short of the praise he deserves. He was an artist, engineer, architect, mathematician, anatomist, musician, and inventor. He was able to change the world as we know it with his inventions such as the machine gun, the parachute, and the calculator. ... More About: Humorous , Code , Paintings , Real , Da Vinci
Vitruvian Man : Symbol of Art and Science
2008-01-18 15:53:00 Leonardo diVinci?s drawing of man in ideal form, the Vitruvian man, was first sketched in 1492 or so in one of his numerous journals. The image, a sketch of a nude male stretched into two separate poses within the space of a square and a circle, is one of his most famous works. Occasionally called ... More About: Science , Paintings , Da Vinci
The Paintings Featured in Dan Brown?s ?The Da Vinci Code? Book
2008-01-18 11:52:00 The Da Vinci Code plays on many of the theories and mysteries that have long followed Leonardo Da Vinci and his eccentric methods around for the last 500 years. Despite the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa, the book and film utilized numerous other paintings to make points about Da Vinci?s ties to the Priory ... More About: Book , Brown , Paintings , Featured
Motivation behind Leonardo Da Vinci?s Paintings
2008-01-18 09:51:00 Leonardo Da Vinci ?s artistic style derived from a variety of different purposes and causes throughout his life. He left us only a small handful of paintings to his name, barely more than half a dozen, but he is still recognized as one of the preeminent artists of the Western World. This derives greatly from his ... More About: Motivation , Paintings , Leonardo da Vinci , Leonardo
Leonardo DaVinci?s Drawings
2007-11-27 13:09:00 Leonardo Da Vinci is nearly as famous for many of his drawings and sketches as he was for his completed paintings. The difference of course is that his completed works are much less in number and often took him years to complete. His drawings, often found in his notebooks, ranged from simple sketches of arms ... More About: Drawings , Paintings , Leonardo , Davinci
Da Vinci?s Later Paintings (1490-1516)
2007-11-26 12:53:00 Paintings of the 1490s In the 1490s, the most widely known and popular of Leonardo Di Vinci ?s paintings is the Last Supper. Started in 1495, the painting depicts the final meal between Jesus and his disciples shortly before he was captured and executed. This piece of Leonardo da Vinci?s artwork in particular relays the exact the ... More About: Paintings , Da Vinci
Da Vinci?s Later Paintings (1490-1516)
2007-11-26 12:53:00 Paintings of the 1490s In the 1490s, the most widely known and popular of Leonardo Di Vinci ?s paintings is the Last Supper. Started in 1495, the painting depicts the final meal between Jesus and his disciples shortly before he was captured and executed. This piece of Leonardo da Vinci?s artwork in particular relays the exact the ... More About: News , Paintings , Da Vinci
Da Vinci?s Early Paintings (1470-1490)
2007-11-25 12:45:00 Early Paintings Leonardo Da Vinci Painted and Info on Them Many ask the question, How many paintings has Leonardo Da Vinci painted? The answer is: not very many. However, those that he did paint have become worldwide masterpieces recognized everywhere for their incredible talent. Leonardo DaVinci?s paintings first began appearing in the 1470s with the ... More About: Early
The Last Supper Alternative Versions
2007-11-24 12:44:00 Other Last Supper Pictures in History There have been numerous other versions of the Last Supper painted over the years. It was considered a very important piece during the Renaissance and because of that was repeatedly crafted for the sake of proving that an artist could do so. After Leonardo?s famous work, many other artists were ... More About: Alternative , Paintings , Da Vinci
Da Vinci?s The Last Supper Conspiracy Theories
2007-11-23 12:42:00 The Last Supper: A Painting with Mary Magdalene? There are numerous theories and legends attached to the Last Supper, a painting already rife with symbols. In recent years, many of these theories have appeared in novels and in movies depicting Leonardo?s The Last Supper, controversies that have only been blown up with their inclusion in ... More About: Paintings , Conspiracy , Conspiracy Theories , Theories , Da Vinci
Impact of Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
2007-11-22 12:38:00 The Composition and Images of The Last Supper , World Famous Painting In the composition of Da Vinci’s Last Supper, the Apostles and their reactions at hearing the news that one of them would betray Jesus are the focal points. The traditional perception of the Last Supper has always focused on Jesus. However, much of the painting ... More About: The Last Supper , The Last
The Basis for Da Vinci?s Last Supper
2007-11-21 12:35:00 Regardless of the reasons for painting it, The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci was a common theme among Renaissance painters. It was considered something of a challenge to the master artist to put together a properly crafted representation of the last meal of Christ. Much has been made of that final meal, not only ... More About: Paintings
History of Da Vinci?s The Last Supper Painting
2007-11-20 12:31:00 Leonardo Da Vinci ?s The Last Supper painting was originally painted starting in 1495 and was completed in 1498. The painting was commissioned by Duke Ludovico Sforza and his wife Beatrice d?Este to be painted as a mural in Milan. The painting itself is a recreation of The Last Supper as described in the Gospel of ... More About: History , Painting , Paintings
Speed Painting the Mona Lisa
2007-11-19 10:53:00 To cap the Mona Lisa off, here’s a light hearted video showing someone with amazing talent. This is drawn using MS Paint, that’s the free software that you get with Windows. Anyone who’s used it knows that it’s impossible to draw anything with; apparently not… To ... More About: Painting , Paintings , Speed , Da Vinci
What has Mona Lisa Got to Smile About?
2007-11-18 09:34:00 Ah, the Mona Lisa . She been one of the most inspirational women in history and we don?t even really know if she was real or even a woman. The most popular theory and the most probable one as well is that the subject of the portrait was Mona Lisa, the wife of the rich silk ... More About: Paintings , Smile , Da Vinci , Unsolved Mysteries
The Mona Lisa Smile Historical Review
2007-11-17 16:11:00 Mona Lisa smile interpretation has been a prime debate among art historians and scholars for centuries, since DaVinci first put his painting to canvas so many years ago. Theories abound and tests have been run, but still today people wonder why it was that such a simple curl of the lips could be so expressive. The ... More About: Mona Lisa , Review , Paintings , Historical , Smile
Who Painted the Mona Lisa : A Short Mona Lisa History
2007-11-16 13:10:00 In 1502 Leonardo DaVinci began painting what would become his defining masterwork, the Mona Lisa . Completed over the course of the four years to follow, the Mona Lisa has long been a symbol of the Renaissance and the artistic mastery of a man who did so many things in his life. Many have pondered the ... More About: History , Paintings , Da Vinci , Short
Why is the Mona Lisa so Famous?
2007-11-15 12:09:00 The Artist and Historical Value When you boil down everything about the painting to those first few days the canvas spent in a workshop in Italy, there is still Leoanrdo Da Vinci . More than anything else, his identity as the artist has helped build up the painting to the kind of international cultdom it now holds. ... More About: Mona Lisa , Famous , Paintings , Lisa
Mona Lisa ? Simple Commission, Self Portrait, or Greater Mystery?
2007-11-14 13:08:00 The Mona Lisa is more than a simple work of art. The rumors, mysteries, and intrigue that have clouded it since it was first painted have made into an icon of sorts. Whatever his true intentions were when he painted it, there are hundreds of legends for Leonardo Da Vinci?s Mona Lisa, meaning scholars will ... More About: Paintings , Mystery , Commission , Simple
Features of the Mona Lisa (Beyond the Smile)
2007-11-13 16:08:00 The details of the Mona Lisa style utilized by Leonardo have enthralled and confused historians for centuries. Some of the smallest details have become some of art’s biggest mysteries. Beyond the smile, there are many other aspects deserving of more attention in their relation to the power of the overall painting. Details of the Mona Lisa ... More About: Features , Smile
The Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci
2007-11-12 16:08:00 The Mona Lisa , by Leonardo Da Vinci is not only one of the most important paintings ever created, it was one of the most important to Leonardo himself, a work he spent more than four years on and carried with him everywhere he went for the remainder of his life. The Importance of the Mona ... More About: Leonardo da Vinci
Is Imitation Flatery or Forgery?
2007-09-05 14:59:00 The answer to this question is not cut and dried. Looking back through history, it was common for artists to copy not only the work of others, but their own work as well. Think about it. How else would someone obtain a copy of a painting he liked other than asking he ... More About: Forgery , Forge , Flat
Analysis of the Mona Lisa
2007-08-16 14:31:00 Analysis of the Mona Lisa Painting Leonardo Da Vinci was born and raised in Italy where the Mona Lisa was ultimately painted started in 1503. The style of the painting has long been cited as the forerunner of numerous styles of art, one of the true masterpieces in the history of world art. Leonardo Da Vinci : ... More About: Analysis , Paintings
Looking at a Picture of the Mona Lisa
2007-08-15 14:30:00 In the halls of the Louvre in France, a painting of Mona Lisa , Leonardo Da Vinci ?s mysteriously enigmatic masterpiece, sits as a centerpiece of Renaissance Artwork. The source of her enigmatic smile, the setting of her stationed pose and the question of what Da Vinci might have originally intended have all been long standing questions ... More About: Picture , Paintings
Children?s Imagination Given a Professional Touch
2007-07-27 14:39:00 We all know that children have an amazing imagination, and often their drawings need long explanations for adults to understand them. But a group of artists took some children’s drawing as concepts and then turned these into professional paintings. The results are quite interesting… More About: Children , Imagination , Touch , Professional , Fess
Microscopic Lord?s Prayer
2007-07-23 09:33:00 We have all heard about magnificent carvings that prisoners have made in jail from things such as bone, teeth and wood. But convicted forger A. Schiller who was serving his time in Sing Sing prison in the late 1800s, took it one step further. When his guards found him dead in his cell, on his ... More About: Prayer , Lord , Raye , Pray
The Official Stamp on the Mona Lisa
More articles from this author:2007-07-18 11:52:00 The painting commonly known as the Mona Lisa was painted between 1503 and 1506 in Florence, Italy, by Leonardo da Vinci. It is painted in oils on a panel of poplar wood. This painting may well be considered the most famous in the world. The subject?s smile– variously described as enigmatic, serene, ... More About: Paintings , Stamp , Da Vinci 1, 2, 3 |
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