Art and Culture

Artistic Technique Renaissance painters used proportion and perspective to create realism in their paintings Proportion means everything at scale of size Perspective means giving the appearance of distance on a flat surface

Leonardo Da Vinci The True Renaissance Man a painter, architect, inventor, and student of all things scientific. best known for his art, including two paintings that remain among the world’s most famous and admired, Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Largely self-educated, he filled dozens of secret notebooks with inventions created, at least on paper, such inventions as the bicycle, the helicopter and an airplane based on the physiology and flying capability of a bat.

Mona Lisa The Mona Lisa has many conspiracy theories behind it such as secret messages and what is behind her smile One major theory is that the Mona Lisa is actually a self portrait in a female form

Michelangelo a sculptor, painter and architect Worked for some of the most wealthy and powerful men of his day, including popes Pietà and David sculptures and Sistine Chapel ceiling paintings are his most famous pieces and have been preserved Michelangelo depicted the 12 apostles on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Michelangelo’s David

The Birth of Venus by Botticelli

The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci

Pietà by Michelangelo

The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo

Madonna Of The Cherries With Joseph by Titian