Category: Leonardo da Vinci

  • Art History. Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci

    Title: The Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) Artist: Leonardo da Vinci Date: c. 15031506, probably continuing until c. 1517 Culture: European Art, Italian Renaissance Scale: 77 cm × 53 cm (30 in × 21 in) Subject Mona Lisa depicts a young woman sitting in an upright position in a piece of furniture that resembles an armchair.…

  • Leonardo Da Vinci: Connecting Art to Science

    One of the ways to draw parallels between art and science would be to mention how Leonardo Da Vinci tried to gain more insight into natural phenomena and observe them to an extent where he would recognize all of their peculiarities. From the human musculature to lip movements, Da Vinci intended to learn about everything…

  • Da Vincis Mona Lisa

    Mona Lisa is a famous masterpiece painted by Leonardo da Vinci in the sixteenth century (see Figure 1). Even though there is no conclusive evidence, it is generally accepted that da Vinci began working on the painting in 1503 and finished it in 1516 (Mehra & Campbell, 2018). The painting belongs to renaissance art, which…

  • Renaissance: Da Vincis Comparison of the Arts

    Initial Reaction to the Work The work, which is within the analytical scope of this paper, is the Comparison of the Arts, which is the chapter from Leonardo Da Vincis notebooks, translated to English by MacCurdy (1955). Before dwelling upon the profound analysis of the work, it is essential to provide an initial reaction to…

  • Society in Leonardo Da Vinci, Goya and Hirst Works

    Table of Contents Introduction Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci The Third Of May 1808 by Francisco Goya LSD by Damien Hirst Conclusion Works Cited Introduction In the modern-day world of prevailing dynamism, that is moving from progress to greater progress, or better said beauty to higher beauty in an endless motion, underneath all ostensible…