Famous Artists Of The Renaissance

Saturday, July 28th, 2007 at 11:10 pm

Leonardo da Vinci - Renaissance Man

In 1466 Leonardo's father apprenticed him Verrocchio, the most talented Florentine artist of his time. The workshop altarpieces and religious paintings and large sculptures in bronze and marble. Leonardo began by mixing colors, but Verocchio soon realized that his apprentice possessed extraordinary talents and let him paint an angel in one of his works. Legend has it that Verrocchio, realizing that Leonardo's angel was far better anything that he never painted, painted again.

By 1478 Leonardo had created his own studio. A Florentine monastery commissioned the painting The Adoration of the Magi, which he never finished, because in 1482 he offered his services to Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan. Leonardo worked for Duke did not like an artist, but as an engineer. He built bridges portable cannons, catapults and other war machines. Some of his inventions, like a drawing of a tank, only occurs in our time. He recorded all his ideas in notebooks that are now in museums in the world. Also prepared for special competitions occasions, and constructed a model for a huge equestrian statue of Francesco Sforza, Ludovico's father, which was destroyed by the French when reoccupied Milan in 1498.

The most important of Leonardo's paintings of this period were the Virgin of the Rocks and The Last Supper, a mural painted on the walls of a monastery in the outskirts of Milan. Unfortunately, Leonardo's love of experiment sometimes produced disastrous results and the technique used in this mural led to peeling paint out just 20 years after its construction, making it the subject of endless restoration attempts.

When the French overthrew the Duke Lodovico and invaded Milan in 1498, Leonardo fled to Venice with his assistant, Il Salaino.

In 1502 Leonardo returned to Florence and went to work for the famous Caesar Borgia, Duke as his chief engineer and architect. It is during this time that Leonardo met Caterina Sforza, has been widely speculated that the pattern of his most famous painting, the Mona Lisa. Leonardo took the painting with him in all his travels and stayed with him until the end of his life. In his will, bequeathed the painting to his assistant.

Leonardo returned to Milan in 1506 and in 1507 was appointed court painter to the king of France. He went from Milan to Rome in 1514 and in 1516 he went to work for FranÃ § ois I king in the French court in Amboise. In France, Leonardo worked on hydrological studies.

FranÃ § ois I loved and Leonardo admired, and gave him a country house near the royal residence in the castle of Amboise and a generous pension. Leonardo lived in France for three years and died there May 2, 1519. It is said that King FranÃ § ois I held Leonardo's head as he was dying and some twenty years later, was quoted as saying: "No man has lived, learned much about sculpture, painting and architecture, but more than that, it was a great philosopher. "

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Who paid Michelangelo (a Renaissance artist) to the painting "The Creation of Adam", a famous piece of art?

Need help in my project and I need to know who care Michelangelo to paint his famous art today, "The Creation of Adam."

Pope Julius II class made him paint the entire ceiling of the Sistine Chapel not exactly know if it was paid and never going to be so elaborate, but Michelangelo did not agree with the ideas of the Pope to the ceiling and formed their own (with many hidden subliminal messages to the Vatican) of Michelangelo was furious at the Pope by forcing him to paint the Sistine Chapel, mainly because the painting was not his element, in the first place. But as I said he wasn't paid exactly, but forced to paint the ROOF.

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