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Raphael – The genius painter and architect of the High Renaissance
As one of the great masters of the Renaissance and artist to European royalty and the Papal court in Rome, his works comprise various themes of theology and philosophy, including but not limited to famous illustrations of the Madonna.
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Léonard de Vinci – Artiste, Peintre de la Renaissance
Étudiant avec passion la nature et les modèles antiques, il était impossible que [Léonard de Vinci] ne combinât pas la précision avec la liberté, la vérité avec la beauté. Là, dans cet affranchissement définitif, dans cette pleine possession du modelé, de l’éclairage et de l’expression, dans cette ampleur et cette liberté, se trouvent la raison d’être et la gloire du maître.
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Leonardo Da Vinci – Artist, Painter of the Renaissance
Studying nature with passion, and all the independence proper to his character, he could not fail to combine precision with liberty, and truth with beauty. It is in this final emancipation, this perfect mastery of modelling, of illumination, and of expression, this breadth and freedom, that the master’s raison d’être and glory consist.
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Leonardo Da Vinci – L’architecte
Le texte ci-dessous est l’extrait du livre Léonard De Vinci L’Artiste, le Penseur, le Savant: écrit par Eugène Müntz, publié par Parkstone International. L’occasion de se produire dans ce domaine nouveau ne tarda pas à s’offrir au sculpteur-peintrearchitecte. Depuis des années, l’achè vement de la cathédrale de Milan préoccupait au loin tous ceux qui cultivaient l’architecture gothique. Les maîtres d’oeuvre de Strasbourg, concurremment avec Bramante, Francesco di Giorgio Martini et bien d’autres, avaient dû donner des conseils, élaborer des projets. En 1487, Léonard voulut prendre part, lui aussi, à ce grand concours, qui surexcitait l’ardeur des derniers champions du moyen âge ; il concentra son attention sur la coupole qui devait couronner…
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Leonardo Da Vinci – The Architect
The text below is the excerpt of the book Leonardo Da Vinci, written by Eugène Müntz, published by Parkstone International. Taking into account the scope and variety of his knowledge in the exact sciences, it was natural that the artist should have burned to try his hand at architecture. And, as a fact, problems of construction occupied him as much as problems of aesthetics; hence we find him searching into the causes that produce fissures in walls and niches, inquiring into the nature of arches and so on. The acoustics of church buildings also occupied him a good deal; he tried to discover an architectural combination that would enable the preacher’s…
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L’ENFANCE DE LÉONARD DE VINCI ET SES PREMIÈRES OEUVRES
Savant et créateur incomparable, Leonardo était le seul artiste de l'histoire de l'humanité à avoir plongé dans la plus radieuse beauté et à unir la science d'Aristote à l'art de Phidias.
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Leonardo Da Vinci – The Master of Science
The text below is the excerpt of the book Leonardo Da Vinci, written by Eugène Müntz, published by Parkstone International. An alliance between art and science was no new thing in Italy. Minds trained in the incomparable gymnasium of classic education could attack the most various tasks without danger of a check. In such an enterprise the painter of the Last Supper and the sculptor of the Sforza statue could justify himself by the example of many a famous Italian. Brunellesco had been an ardent student of mathematics; Piero della Francesca of geometry; Alberti had composed the Ludi Matematici and invented a way of measuring the depth of the sea…
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Leonardo: “The laws of the Italian Renaissance, and the geometry of universal beauty”.
A profound savant and an incomparable creator, Leonardo was the only artist in the history of mankind who has delved into the most radiant beauty and who has united the science of Aristotle with the art of Phidias.
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Jenny Saville Bares All
Jenny Saville is one brave woman. Her work fearlessly portrays bodies that, to put it gently, are not considered classically beautiful. Others have used the language obese and deformed. But hey, semantics. A mother of two children, Saville has stripped down for her own drawings that depict naked mothers and their children. Other massive scale paintings show overweight or transgender (or overweight and transgender) bodies, existing in the space between the gender binary. Saville has gained global acclaim for the light and curious gaze she has cast on these previously side-swept, discarded bodies. For those eager to see where her aesthetic is heading next, Saville is currently showcasing original drawings on…
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Erase the line between Genius and Insanity!
Being labelled a genius puts one precariously close to being pigeonholed as insane. Where insanity is recognised as the repetition of the same action over and over, is genius not finally achieving some far-fetched goal, whether it is in science, maths, or art? History is littered with larger than life talents that we still learn about in our studies and discuss with our peers: Einstein, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, etc. Artists made sketches and drafts of the way the human body works, whether in physical labour or dancing, to better portray the human condition in their paintings. Michelangelo and Degas are not only famous for the Sistine Chapel and Impressionism respectively,…
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