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…an economic activity as well as a cultural phenomenon. Pieces by Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci lead way to one of the greatest periods in the history of art. Owning art showed you had social standing and power. In the middle ages men who had money spent…

…. Any study of the art of this period will undoubtedly include the study of the lives and works of the great masters such as Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci, but rarely is there any mention of their female contemporaries. While…

…The Toilet Yes...those tales you've heard are true. The toilet was first patented in England in 1775, invented by one Thomas Crapper, but the extraordinary automatic device called the flush toilet has been around for a long time. Leonardo Da Vinci…

…. The fishing stories that I told where true, all true. (a friends name) and I had gone on many explorations to far off places. We had sneaking out at night down to such an art that if we could put it on paper then it would be more famous then Leonardo da Vinci=s…

…institutions of class and beauty, possessing pieces of the most beautiful, intricate, and famous art ever known to man. They contain works from such greats as the ancient Romans, Greeks, and Egyptians, as well as more current artists such as Leonardo Da Vinci…

…looks like a hand in a scrabble game. Comparing this poem to most other poetry is like comparing a Pablo Picasso painting to a Leonardo da Vinci. This poem is in no way written in any traditional form. It is composed of fifteen lines, and has only one…

…produce on us; like Leonardo da Vinci once said: "Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art."…

…such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Frederick Edwin Church, and Charles Scheeler. These pieces were crafted with obvious skill, expertise, and time. They are exemplary, worthy of the admiration of a crowd, the reason for the existence of a museum. Museums were formed…

…in 1483. In Raphael's life he writes that Raphael left Siena to study the cartoons of Leonardo in the hall of the Pope in Florence. Da Vinci started this around 1503, and if one was to estimate that Pintoricchio's age in early youth was around 20 which…

…Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. There are 4 cars and 11 lightposts on the back on the US 10 dollar bill. Leonardo Da Vinci…