All about one of the most famous and briliant people in history, Leonardo da Vinci.

Permanent exhibition of the famous architect's work located in Jyväskylä, Finland.

Boston based Photographer Richard Sobol has focused on the Abayudaya Jews of Uganda, wildlife, endangered species and the construction, design and architecture of architect Frank Gehry and the M.I.T. Stata Center. His books include AdelinaÕs Whales, the Gray Whales of laguna San Ignacio and Abayudaya: the Jews of Uganda.

Lorenzo Lotto (b.1480-d.1556). Art-works featured on this page include: Presentation in the Temple,Fra Gregorio Belo di Vicenza,Portrait of Febo da Brescia,Portrait of Laura da Pola,Gentleman with Gloves,The Alms of St Anthony,Venus and Cupid,Madonna of the Rosary,Architect,Portrait of a Man in Black Silk Cloak

It's a Michelangelo! - British scholar unearthed an unsigned drawing by the Italian master painter, sculptor and architect. (September 1, 2002)

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Organisation linking together artists and crafts people who work with or in the landscape.

Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist Ideal. His "Last Supper" (1495-97) and "Mona Lisa" (1503-06) are among the most widely popular and influential paintings of the Renaissance. His notebooks reveal a spirit of scientific inquiry and a mechanical inventiveness that were centuries ahead of their time. The unique fame that Leonardo enjoyed in his lifetime and that, filtered and purified by historical criticism, has remained undimmed to the present day is based on the equally unique universality of his spirit. Leonardo's universality is more than many-sidedness. True, at the time of the Renaissance and the period of humanism, many-sidedness was a highly esteemed quality; but it was by no means rare. Many other good artists possessed it. Leonardo's universality, on the other hand, was a spiritual force, peculiarly his own, that generated in him an unlimited desire for knowledge and guided his thinking and behaviour. An artist by disposition and endowment, he found that his eyes were his main avenue to knowledge; to Leonardo, sight was man's highest sense organ because sight alone conveyed the facts of experience immediately, correctly, and with certainty. Hence, every phenomenon perceived became an object of knowledge. Saper vedere ("knowing how to see") became the great theme of his studies of man's works and nature's creations. His creativity reached out into every realm in which graphic representation is used: he was painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer. But he went even beyond that. His superb intellect, his unusual powers of observation, and his mastery of the art of drawing led him to the study of nature itself, which he pursued with method and penetrating logic--and in which his art and his science were equally revealed.

The city of Florence, Italy, is the unmistakable home of the great painter, architect, and sculptor, Michelangelo Buonarroti, known today simply as Michelangelo. The second of five sons to Ludovico di Buonaorotto Simoni, he was born in 1475 in the nearby village of Caprese but always considered himself a son of Florence. Today, one need not look long or hard to witness Michelangelo's influence on the city. His tomb is displayed prominently alongside those of Machiavelli, Galileo, and Rossini, and many of his most famous works of sculpture are housed throughout Florence - including, the magnificent statue of David.

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