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…made the modern world what it is today. The major thing that they all learned from their experiences was that the world was much larger than anyone had imagined and it would take a long time to develop. With everything from Leonardo da Vinci…

…drawings by Leonardo da Vinci The golden section is seen in many areas of mathematics. The ratio is of consecutive Fibonacci numbers 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 . . ., each number being the sum of the previous two numbers. The golden section shows up as an exact fit…

…began to dissolve. This was a major reason why merchants, artist, scholars, and scientist like Leonardo Da Vinci began to appear. The people of the renaissance essentially looked to ancient Greece and Rome for inspiration. This is why they are so similar.…

…his father, Hans Holbein the Elder. When he was on a trip to Italy, in 1518, he was greatly influenced by the works of Leonardo da Vinci, and many more artists of the Italian Renaissance. He spent most of his life in Basel, Switzerland, where he painted…

…be described as a time of the awakening when great minds influenced and changed the perspectives of people towards the arts, architecture, literature and even science. It was in this age that artists such as William Shakespeare, EE Cummings, Leonardo Da Vinci etc…

…moved to Florence, Italy, to begin studying the works of both Leonardo da Vinci, another great Italian artist, and Michaelangelo. He was greatly influenced…

…/donatell/biograph.html May 17, 2003) The city of Florence paid for his sculpture of David. Patrons found him very hard to deal with and to work with. He was not a cultured intellect like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Donatello was essentially a realist…

…supported Leonardo da Vinci and Georgio Vasari. I lived in a time called the renaissance witch meant the rebirth or revival. The renaissance started after the middle ages. The renaissance was a new age where people loved art, painting, sculpting, and of course…

…Its official: Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful and 2 percent angry. Nicu Sebe at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands tested emotion-recognition software on the famous enigmatic smile…

…to want to be the most attractive "you," it is not healthy to do whatever it takes to see that "you." Media images should not be seen as targets or goals, but as works of art. Like Michealangelo's David or Leonardo Da Vinci's the Mona Lisa, media images today…