Without doubt: Leonardo da Vinci's mural painting The Last Supper painted between 1496 to 1498, in the refectory of the Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie. Here, for the first time when this subject was painted; we see real people depicted to whom we can relate whether one comes from the religious or secular world. The popularity of the book and film The da Vinci code has increased interest in this painting for both a secular and religious public. For image:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=da+vinci+last+supper&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2
da Vinci was the perfect "Renaissance man." he helped set an ignorant and superstitous world on a course of reason, science, learning, and tolerance. In his time, he was an internationally renowned inventor, scientist, engineer, architect, painter, sculptor, musician, mathematician, anatomist, astronomer, geologist, biologist, and philosopher.
Many links on this subject e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci
scroll down to: Contents: Leonardo: Observer, scientist and inventor
2007-05-21 22:09:41
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answered by angela l 7
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Leonardo DaVinci worked for Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, for nearly eighteen years (1482-99). The Duke decided he wanted this particular religious scene painted and Leonardo, who was not stupid, decided painting it made perfect financial sense.
The Last Supper:
It's huge, really - 460 x 880 cm (15 x 29 feet). It covers an entire large wall, very unlike reproductions sized to hang neatly behind one's sofa.
The original mural is on a wall of the refectory (dining hall) in the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy.
If you'd care to see a reproduction or fifty, they're easily found. As an image, Last Supper has been put on everything from mirrors, to mouse pads, to musical pillows.
If Leonardo were still around, he'd be earning billions of dollars on licensing fees alone.
He began working on it in 1495, and finished Last Supper in 1498. This is worth noting, as Leonardo was a known procrastinator with a marked tendency to leave projects unfinished.
This composition remarkable because the disciples are all displaying very human, identifiable emotions. "The Last Supper" had certainly been painted before. Leonardo's version, though, was the first to depict real people acting like real people.
Secondly, and of major importance - the technical perspective in Last Supper is incredible! You can see that every single element of the painting directs one's attention straight to the midpoint of the composition, Christ's head. It's arguably the greatest example of one point perspective ever created.
Da Vinci was dedicated to discovery of truth and the mysteries of nature, and his insightful contributions to science and technology were legendary. As the archetypal Renaissance man, Leonardo helped set an ignorant and superstitous world on a course of reason, science, learning, and tolerance. In his time, he was an internationally renowned inventor, scientist, engineer, architect, painter, sculptor, musician, mathematician, anatomist, astronomer, geologist, biologist, and philosopher.
In an era when left-handedness was considered the devil's work and lefties were often forced to use their right hand, Leonardo was an unrepentant southpaw. It has been suggested that this "difference" was an element of his genius, since his detachment allowed him to see beyond the ordinary. He even wrote backwards, and his writings are easily deciphered only with a mirror.
That's my pick!
2007-05-22 08:12:19
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answered by r k a S 2
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Fra Angelico
Within his lifetime or shortly thereafter he was also called "Il Beato" (the Blessed), in reference to his skills in painting religious subjects.
The 16th century biographer Vasari says of him:
"But it is impossible to bestow too much praise on this holy father, who was so humble and modest in all that he did and said and whose pictures were painted with such facility and piety."
W.M.Rossetti writes:
"From various accounts of Fra Angelico's life, it is possible to gain some sense of why he was deserving of canonization. He led the devout and ascetic life of a Dominican friar, and never rose above that rank; he followed the dictates of the order in caring for the poor; he was always good-humored. All of his many paintings were of divine subjects, and it seems that he never altered or retouched them, perhaps from a religious conviction that, because his paintings were divinely inspired, they should retain their original form. He was wont to say that he who illustrates the acts of Christ should be with Christ. It is averred that he never handled a brush without fervent prayer and he wept when he painted a Crucifixion. The Last Judgment and the Annunciation were two of the subjects he most frequently treated."[8]
2007-05-22 13:49:43
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answered by Mhikko 2
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It might be Michelangelo. He was a great sculptor as well. Painted the Sistine Chapel and was also an inventor I believe.
2007-05-21 19:38:41
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answered by NeNe 3
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David and the Sistine chapel by Michelangelo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo's_David
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Judgment_%28Michelangelo%29
2007-05-22 00:49:33
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answered by Puppy Zwolle 7
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i think Michelangelo or da Vinci....da Vinci was also an architect, he did researches, drawings about many machines...
2007-05-21 19:32:39
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answered by Dorina D 1
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michelangelo?
2007-05-21 19:29:33
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answered by BrosephYoung 3
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