Monday, September 27, 2010

leonardo de vinci




1452
Leonardo is born on April 15 in the village of Anchiano, near the town of Vinci.


1467
At 15 Leonardo is sent to Florence to work as apprentice to Andrea De Verrocchio.


1472
20 year-old Leonardo is accepted into the painters' guild of Florence.


1476
Leonardo is accused of sodomy; he is publicly humiliated although the charges are later dropped.


1478
The Annunciation is painted. The work, initially credited to Da Vinci, is now believed to have been painted by Lorenzo di Credi.

 1481

Leonardo begins work on The Adoration of the Magi, an altarpiece for the Monastery of San Donato at Scopeto.
He sketches many studies.


1482
Leonardo moves to Milan to work in the service of the city's duke, Ludovico Sforza. He gains the title of "painter and engineer of the duke.


1483
Leonardo paints the Virgin of the Rocks.


1485
Leonardo paints Lady with an Ermine.


1495
Leonardo begins work on The Last Supper in the refectory of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.


1498
The Last Supper is completed.


1499
With the duke Ludovico Sforza'a fall from power, Da Vinci leaves Milan and spends a short time in Venice.


1500
Leonardo begins painting the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, a project that he only finishes after 10 years.


1500
Leonardo returns to Florence.


1502
Leonardo begins work as senior military architect and general engineer for Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI.


1503
Leonardo is commissioned to paint the Mona Lisa.


1503
Leonardo is commission to paint a mural for the council hall in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio, which is to be the Battle of Anghiari, a work that would remain unfinished.


1515
Leonardo paints St. John the Baptist.


1516
The king of France invites Leonardo to come work for him.


1519
May 2, Leonardo dies in France.

Friday, September 24, 2010

Rembrandt

                                               Rembrandt wife was Saskia and  he painted her .
Born in Leeuwarden, Saskia was the youngest of eight children of Rombertus van Uylenburgh, a top lawyer, a town burgomaster and one of the founders of the University of Franeker. Saskia (in Friesland called Saske) became an orphan at age twelve, following the death of her mother, Sjoukje Ozinga, and her father five years later. Saskia met Rembrandt by way of her cousin, Hendrick van Uylenburgh, a painter and an art dealer, whose parents had emigrated to Kraków in Poland, but in 1625 Hendrick decided to move to Amsterdam. From 1631 Rembrandt produced paintings for Uylenburg's Amsterdam and Mennonite clients.[citation needed]
The couple married on June 22, 1634 in Het Bildt, where Saskia had been raised by her sister Hiskje and the husband Gerard van Loo, a lawyer and local city secretary. For a while Saskia had lived in Franeker when her sister, Antje, died. After the burial Saskia helped out her brother-in-law, the Polish professor, Johannes Maccovius, busy teaching theology. in 1639 he and Saskia moved to a prominent house in the Jodenbreestraat.

Monday, September 20, 2010

Rembrandt

Rembrandt  began to paint dramaticly bibliac and mythological scense in high cintrast and larg format in his early years in Amsterdam (1632 -1636).In the end of 1630s  he orady produced a few paintings of landscapes.His work in 1640 became less exuberant and more sobe in tone.

Friday, September 17, 2010

Rembrandt

    Rambrandt was born on  July 15, 1606 in Leiden. His family was quite well-to-do; his father was a miller and his mother was a baker's daughter.Whan he was a boy he want to Latin school,and as he grow up he want to the Uniersity of Leiden.Rembrandit opened a studio in Leidon in 1624 or 1625; he shared it with his colleague friends.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

caravaggio

       Caravaggio was born in Milan in Lombardy.caravaggio was a bad behaved heatless person . He killed and abeuesed many people.When he was five his father and grandfather died in Milan in 1577,and after a sevelar years  Caravaggio's mother died when he was 19 in 1584, and in the same year he was apprenticed for four years to the Milanese painter Simone Peterzano, described in the contract of apprenticeship as a pupil of Titian.
     
       Caravaggio painted .David with the Head of Goliath.He thougth that he can save hem self  in real life by afring his head  in the paint.He teakes a basket of friut and tern in it to death and drama.Caravaggio likes music.He won the cametion to paint two seen for Sent Matho, and the cherch Sant lowege.