renaissance art
something newThe word 'Renaissance' is a French term first coined in the 19th century to describe the intellectual and artistic revival, inspired by a renewed study of Classical literature and art,...
View ArticleNew age in understanding and living
About 1450, European scholars became more interested in studying the world around them. Their art became more true to life. They began to explore new lands. The new age in Europe was eventually called...
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Paris's Louvre Museum warned that the wood on which the Mona Lisa was painted is bending.Her unknown identity has plagued art historians for centuries. Her enigmatic smile has seduced millions of art...
View ArticleMona Lisa smile secrets revealed
The smile on the face of the Mona Lisa is so enigmatic that it disappears when it is looked at directly, says a US scientist. Professor Margaret Livingstone of Harvard University said the smile only...
View ArticleCopy of the Mona Lisa
"In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast." This curious fact and many more like it may be found on the "Fun Facts" World-Wide-Web page put out by the Northville...
View Articlemona lisa stolen
Most of pictures from this blog are taken from nice studio site .On Monday, August 21, 1911, the world's most famous work of art--Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa--was stolen from the Louvre museum in...
View ArticleDescartes, Bacon and Newton, giant's of science
Rene Descartes wrote his Discourse on Method 50 years before Issac Newton published his Principia. The Principia stunned the world and quickly established Newton as the leading intellectual of his age....
View ArticleRenaissance Thinking
In Spain, as in other European countries, sixteenth-century painting is characterized by eclecticism, or rather by the synthesis of a number of different trends: national tendencies, the influence of...
View ArticleRenaissance music and composers
A rebirth of Classical learningThe rediscovery and reevaluation of writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans suggested a "rebirth". Nineteenth-century historians seized on the idea to create our...
View ArticleChain of being
Among the most important of the continuities with the Classical period was the concept of the Great Chain of Being. Its major premise was that every existing thing in the universe had its "place" in a...
View ArticleMoses the Lawgiver, Michelangelo product
Twice Freud strayed away into a by-path off the high road of psychoanalytic investigation—once, many years ago, when he he wrote a study of aesthetics, and the second time in his eighties, when he...
View ArticleDonatello's trio
1386-1466Donatello is considered to be one of the greatest sculptors of all time. His techniques are still used by sculptors today.He was a great Italian sculptor, who was born in Florence, Italy, in...
View ArticleRenaissance Gothfather Giorgio Vasari's Book
Every few year we get new translation of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters. It is a piece of work that resists four century's and a half, and is still one of ground work from field of fine art. IT is...
View ArticleMIracles from Museum of Cathedral in Orvieto
Some great news for those , who wanted to visit and see with your own eyes inside of museum Duomo in Orvieto. This cathedral is in all global anthologies of western art strongly present with one of...
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