Renaissance+Art


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 * The Mona Lisa was created when the city of Florence paid Leonardo to do a fresco kind of painting called Battle of Anghiari. The Mona Lisa is the most identifiable painting in the world and copied. The Mona Lisa was started in1503 and was not finished until 3 years later. To create the smile of Mona Lisa Leonardo had to use many techniques which include shadowing, and chiaroscuro that fuzzes the space between the upper and bottom lip. Now today people wait for hours just to get a glimpse at this painting which is now at the Louvre Museum in Paris. || Leonardo Da Vinci painted the last supper. The last supper the technique he used to paint this was fresco which is painting on fresh plastered walls. The person who Leonardo focused on most was Jesus seated in the center of the table. The person that was second to Christ was Judas who ended up betraying him. Judas in every painting of the last supper is always isolated from the others. To show Judas disgrace Leonardo used a painting technique called chiaroscuro to paint him darker. This painting is in terrible condition today. When this painting was first created it already had problems it faced humiliation .This painting is known as Leonardo's most dramatic paintings. || Renaissance art amazed people because they have not ever seen anything like it before. This painting The Gift of The Mantle uses linear perspective. Linear perspective was one of the main techniques used for Renaissance art. The person who has created The Gift of The Mantle was Giotto also known as " Father of Renaissance Painting" he was also a pioneer who did fresco painting. ||

The painting by Michel Angelo in The Sistine Chapel was a painting about God touching Adam with his finger to give him life. This Art work took Michel Angelo 4 years painting on his back and just working with candle light. He also would sleep right under the painting in paint that had dripped down. When Michel Angelo was painting this work he had a lot of conflicts with Pope Julius II. Yet when Michel Angelo would run out of money he would ask the Pope and beg and the Pope would grant it to him. This painting was only one of the 9 panels that Michel Angelo painted in the Sistine Chapel. Many art Historians today are still amazed by his work