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Chapter 17: The Renaissance |
Leonardo's drawings are prized not only for their great craftsmanship and artistry, but also because they reveal his breadth of interests, including anatomy, astronomy, botany and mathematics. To find out more about this artist, check out the website below. It offers renditions of his drawings, as well as links to related sites:
Drawings of Leonardo
http://banzai.msi.umn.edu/leonardo/
One of the "greatest of the greats," known to everyone for his statue of David as well as his work in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo enjoyed both recognition and considerable financial support for his work during his lifetime. While he served as painter and architect to important patrons, Michelangelo considered himself primarily a sculptor. His visual imagination was devoted primarily to artistic rendition of the human body. An excellent website that describes his life and works can be found at:
Michaelangelo
http://www.michelangelo.com/buon/bio-index2.html
This site includes a chronological biography, annotated with examples of his
work. Links to other related sites are included.
It's hard to think
of art thieves as "art people." Vincenzo Perugia's theft of the Mona
Lisa wasn't particularly dashing or ingenious--yet, as a result, he received
a kind of notoriety usually reserved for the highly talented. But Perugia didn't
fit the bill, and despite the initial frenzy surrounding his theft, he ended
up as a footnote in art history.
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