Sir John Isaac Thornycroft (1843-1928) was a British Naval architect, engineer, and founder of the shipbuilding institution, John I Thornycroft & Company Limited. He is noted for having partially designed and built the first Royal Naval torpedo boat as well as designing and improving upon the machinery involved in this class of ship. Thornycroft is also credited with modifying the hull and propeller designs of naval ships as well as designing ship stabilizers. In particular Thornycroft's…
In Vermeer’s Hat, Timothy Brook displays a variety of paintings by Johannes Vermeer. From the paintings, Brook connects them with events that are occurring in Europe during the seventeenth century. Through Brook’s perspective, the paintings are taken into consideration its importance in telling the events that involve a piece or a part of the painting. Along with the paintings’ importance, Brook also a displayed of a wider connection between each chapter and how it creates a main argument of…
stimulated artist to draw and take all sort of picture. The big wall, signature on other properties, wall design and collection of artifact provoked an emotional and sociological examination that informed artist the thrilled of painting. Most artist created figurative painting in which make other who see their work as inspirational or a reflection of their own life. In the video, I will be focusing on the Sally Mann art work which I find very interesting to look. Sally Mann use of glass plate…
The Adoration of the Magi Leonardo da Vinci is a famous inventor, writer, mathematician and artist. His knowledge of life and wisdom of the world is shown through his many paintings such as The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa.The Adoration of the Magi was one of da Vinci’s early paintings and was never finished. This painting took six years to be completely be restored from damage of the years of its life.The Adoration of the Magi by da Vinci, made with combined influences of individualism,…
Raphael’s rendition of da Vinci’s painting Madonna in the Meadow, a religious scene is depicted with Madonna gazes towards an exchange between Saint John and Jesus Christ in infantry as she realizes the grave future that Christ faces. While both paintings feature the same biblical figures in similar fashion, Raphael’s rendering takes on a brighter and lighter tonality and clearer disposition unlike Da Vinci’s more sullen, hazy, and darker painting. Nonetheless, both paintings portray an air of…
In his painting " Going to the Olympics " by Frank Romero's it's very interesting because his painting has so many different things in it which he had iron and two men reselling and other stuff but it has a meaning to because that's why he painting it. A meaning can also, be that he loves the city of Los Angeles. Frank Romero's likes his painting because we're he drew it really pops out because the cars have a heart on top of them and that's what bring it out. Plus he drew it under the freeway…
into his own. He was hired by Vincenzo Gonzaga to recreate Renaissance paintings, mostly of beautiful women of the court. After the end of one year of travel throughout Italy and Spain, Rubens had a portfolio of his works that expanded sixteenth century Italian art. In 1601, Rubens was asked to paint three large pieces for St Helena’s chapel, which became his first major influence. Two years later, he was sent to deliver paintings for King Philip III. At this time, Rubens painted his first…
accident. After Cosquer discovered the cave, he made the amazing cave a secret, however ,he went back several times. One day when Henri went with a group of divers to the cave Henri discovered the paintings. So he decided to contact an archaeologist. He asked Jean Courtin to come observe the paintings, however , Jean Courtin responded and said he couldn't do it due to the fact that he wasn’t a diver. So Jean Courtin contacted Jean Clotte an archaeologist and a diver he accepted to go to the cave…
longer it will take care of him and he went to live with stonecutter and he joked, “With my wet-nurse’s milk, I sucked in the hammer and chisels I use for my statues” (Bio.com ) Michelangelo didn’t care much for school it was more interested in the paintings and drawings that he saw from nearby churches, Francisco Granacci who was a grammar school friend introduced Michelangelo to Domenico Ghirlandaio who would become his mentor at the Florentine painters workshop at the age of 13, where he…
The special painting is extremely proportioned, with the right eye of the Christ figure as the single, focused disappearing point, from which all compositional basics commence. In my analysis, the disappearing point, which is also Christ's right eye, is vaguely lower…