Abretch Durer

The Rhinoceros

Artist

Albrecht Drer

Year

1515

Type

woodcut

Dimensions

21.4 cm 29.8 cm (8.4 in 11.7 in)

Location

British Museum, London

Drer's Rhinoceros is the name commonly given to a woodcut executed by German painter and printmaker Albrecht Drer in 1515.[1] The image was based on a written description and brief sketch by an unknown artist of an Indian rhinoceros that had arrived in Lisbon earlier that year. Drer never saw the actual rhinoceros, which was the first living example seen in Europe since Roman times. In late 1515, the King of Portugal, Manuel I, sent the animal as a gift for Pope Leo X, but it died in a shipwreck off the coast of Italy in early 1516. A live rhinoceros was not seen again in Europe until a second specimen, named Abada, arrived from India at the court of Sebastian of Portugal in 1577, being later inherited by Philip II of Spain around 1580.[2][3] Drer's woodcut is not an entirely accurate representation of a rhinoceros. He depicts an animal with hard plates that cover its body like sheets of armour, with a gorget at the throat, a solid-looking breastplate, and rivets along the seams; he also places a small twisted horn on its back, and gives it scaly legs and saw-like rear quarters. None of these features is present in a real rhinoceros.[4][5] Despite its anatomical inaccuracies, Drer's woodcut became very popular in Europe and was copied many times in the following three centuries. It was regarded by Westerners as a true representation of a rhinoceros into the late 18th century. Eventually, it was supplanted by more realistic drawings and paintings, particularly those of Clara the rhinoceros, who toured Europe in the 1740s and 1750s. It has been said of Drer's woodcut: "probably no animal picture has exerted such a profound influence on the arts".[6]
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1 The rhinoceros 2 Drer's woodcut 3 Notes 4 References 5 External links

Michael Angelo
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Michelangelo

Portrait of Michelangelo by Jacopino del Conte(after 1535) at the age of 60

Birth name Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

Born

6 March 1475 Caprese near Arezzo, Republic of Florence (presentday Tuscany,Italy)

Died

18 February 1564 (aged 88) Rome, Papal States (present-dayItaly)

Nationality Italian

Field

Sculpture, painting, architecture, and poetry

Training

Apprentice to Domenico Ghirlandaio[1]

Movement

High Renaissance

Works

David, The Creation of Adam,Piet, Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni[1] (6 March 1475 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo (Italian pronunciation: [mikelandelo]), was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development ofWestern art.[2] Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci. Michelangelo was considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime, and ever since then he has been held to be one of the greatest artists of all time.[2] A number of his works in painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among the most famous in existence.[2] His output in every field during his long life was prodigious; when the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences that survive is also taken into account, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century. Two of his best-known works, the Piet and David, were sculpted before he turned thirty. Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on theceiling and The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. As an architect, Michelangelo pioneered the Mannerist style at theLaurentian Library. At 74 he succeeded Antonio da Sangallo the Younger as the architect of St. Peter's Basilica. Michelangelo transformed the plan, the western end being finished to Michelangelo's design, the dome being completed after his death with some modification. In a demonstration of Michelangelo's unique standing, he was the first Western artist whose biography was published while he was alive.[3] Two biographies were published of him during his lifetime; one of them, by Giorgio Vasari, proposed that he was the pinnacle of all artistic achievement since the beginning of the Renaissance, a viewpoint that continued to have currency in art history for centuries. In his lifetime he was also often calledIl Divino ("the divine one").[4] One of the qualities most admired by his contemporaries was his terribilit, a sense of awe-inspiring grandeur, and it was the attempts of subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelo's impassioned and highly personal style that resulted in Mannerism, the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance.

Naipinta Ni Michael Angelo

Leonardo Da Vina

Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci

Self-portrait in red chalk, Royal Library of Turin Circa 1512 to 1515[nb 1]

Birth name

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

Born

April 15, 1452 Vinci, Republic of Florence(present-day Italy)

Died

May 2, 1519 (aged 67) Amboise, Kingdom of France

Nationality

Italian

Field

Many and diverse fields of the arts and sciences

Movement

High Renaissance

Works

Mona Lisa The Last Supper The Vitruvian Man Lady with an Ermine

Signature of Leonardo da Vina

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Italian pronunciation: [leonardo da vinti]

pronunciation (helpinfo)) (April 15,

1452 May 2, 1519, Old Style) was anItalian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination".[1] He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.[2] According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote".[1] Marco Rosci states that while there is much speculation about Leonardo, his vision of the world is essentially logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unusual for his time.[3] Born out of wedlock to a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, at Vinci in the region of Florence, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter, Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan. He later worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice, and he spent his last years in France at the home awarded him by Francis I. Leonardo was and is renowned[2] primarily as a painter. Among his works, the Mona Lisa is the most famous and most parodied portrait[4] and The Last Supper the most reproduced religious painting of all time, with their fame approached only by Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam.[1] Leonardo's drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also regarded as a cultural icon,[5] being reproduced on items as varied as the euro, textbooks, and T-shirts. Perhaps fifteen of his paintings survive, the small number because of his constant, and frequently disastrous, experimentation with new techniques, and his chronic procrastination.[nb 2] Nevertheless, these few works, together with his notebooks, which contain drawings, scientific diagrams, and his thoughts on the nature of painting, compose a contribution to later generations of artists rivalled only by that of his contemporary, Michelangelo. Leonardo is revered[2] for his technological ingenuity. He conceptualised a helicopter, a tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator,[6] and the double hull, and he outlined a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics. Relatively few of his designs were constructed or were even feasible during his lifetime, [nb 3] but some of his smaller inventions, such as an automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire, entered the world of manufacturing unheralded.[nb 4] He made important discoveries in anatomy, civil

engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics, but he did not publish his findings and they had no direct influence on later science.[7]

Mona Lisa