The Mona Lisa is an oil painting by Italian artist, inventor, and writer Leonardo da Vinci. Likely completed in 1506, the piece features a portrait of a seated woman set against an imaginary landscape. In addition to being one of the most famous paintings, it is also the most valuable. Permanently located in the Louvre Museum, it is estimated leonardo da vinci, the founding father of ichnology palaios, 25 (6), 361-367 doi: 10.2110/palo.2009.p09-049r Get the latest Science stories in your inbox. Riley Black | | READ MORELeonardo da Vinci was motivated by his unlimited desire for knowledge. This guided all his thinking and behavior. As an artist and a thinker, he was highly visual. He considered sight to be the highest of the senses. To him every phenomenon perceived became an object of knowledge. Leonardo applied his rigorous sight and creativity to numerous Example of wrinkling in Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna of the Carnation." This piece shows wrinkling in the shadows of the flesh paint of Mary and the child. Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich.Background of the Mona Lisa (c. 1503-1517) by Leonardo da Vinci; Leonardo da Vinci, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Some believe it is an imaginary setting by Leonardo da Vinci or a backdrop that the artist utilized for the sitting, while others have estimated that it is in fact based on a real scene from the Italian countryside.Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1515-1517) by Francesco Melzi; Attributed to Francesco Melzi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The Vitruvian Man by da Vinci in Context. The Vitruvian Man (c. 1490) by Leonardo da Vinci is a pen and ink drawing with surrounding notes that has become one of the artist's most famous drawings from the Renaissance period.Résumé. An example of a résumé with a common format with the name John Doe. A résumé, sometimes spelled resume (or alternatively resumé ), [a] [1] is a document created and used by a person to present their background, skills, and accomplishments. Résumés can be used for a variety of reasons, but most often they are used to secure new
Early Years. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born on 15 April 1452, in a farmhouse near the village of Anchiano in Tuscany, Italy. Very little is known about his early life, which has been the subject of historic surmise for many years. It is found that he was born to a notary named Ser Piero and a peasant woman named Caterina.
The Renaissance (UK: / r ɪ ˈ n eɪ s ən s / rin-AY-sənss, US: / ˈ r ɛ n ə s ɑː n s / ⓘ REN-ə-sahnss) is a period in history and a cultural movement marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity, covering the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by an effort to revive and surpass the ideas and achievements of classical antiquity; it occurred after the crisis of the
