Was Da Vinci Italian or french? I couldnt make out while he was painting me!?
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Da Vinci was Italian..
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LONDON (Reuters) - A 400-year-old painting previously believed to be that of a woman has been found to portray the male patron and friend of William Shakespeare, its owner said on Tuesday. \n\n\n  \nThe picture of the Earl of Southampton, featuring a figure with long, black curly hair, pursed red lips, an earring and a slender right hand, has prompted speculation in British media that Shakespeare was gay. \n\n"He is wearing perfectly fashionable male attire of the day, but the earring and the hair are effeminate and unusual for the 1590s," the painting's owner Alec Cobbe told Reuters. \n\nHe said that his family had assumed for centuries that the picture was of a Lady Norton. \n\nBut after discovering links between his own family and the Southamptons and a striking resemblance between the portrait and other representations of the 3rd Earl of Southampton, Cobbe was convinced that it is Shakespeare's friend and frequent host. \n\nScholars have long argued that Southampton was the handsome young man in his late teens to whom an early sequence of Shakespeare's sonnets was addressed. \n\nThe painting is dated to around 1590, when Shakespeare was writing early sonnets including one to the "master-mistress of my passion." \n\n"It certainly illustrates that sonnet (number 20) very vividly. We are looking at the subject of the sonnet, I'm sure," said Cobbe. \n\nAlastair Laing, the National Trust's adviser on art, first suggested to Cobbe that the picture was of a male. \n\n"I was cataloguing this collection and realized that this was a young man with long hair, which one or two dandies of the time affected in this manner," he told Reuters. \n\nHe is also convinced that the picture is of Southampton, although he argued that the man was not necessarily affecting a female appearance, as a modern observer may assume. \n\n"This is a man but he is not a cross-dresser," Laing said. \n\n"He is not wearing lipstick -- some pigments just stand the passage of time better than others, giving this appearance. It is dangerous to assume anything about this man's character from this portrait." \n\nBritish newspapers have played up the significance of the discovery (news - web sites), with the mass circulation tabloid Sun headlining its story "Shakesqueer." \n\nBut even if the discovery of the portrait is much ado about nothing, it has proved effective publicity for the painting, which is now on show at Cobbe's stately home at Hatchlands Park in southern England.
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If I'm not mistaken he was an illegitimate son of a peasant girl and a man of breeding. He went and lived with his father, now as a bastard, and being brought up in a one parent family, you can either blame the world for your problems, or you use it as a means to propel you into making something of yourself. This certainly happened with Leonardo, single handedly starting a movement in painting and science, Renaissance man owes a debt of gratitude to a great modern man..... \nBut was he alien, I certainly hope not. I would like to think that men like him are proof that all human beings can aspire to greatness.....
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ITALIAN!....huh? what was your question, blanked out after ITALIAN!..lol
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At the age of 15 Leonardo had already mastered skills in the fine arts and the young man was sent to Florence to work as an apprentice in the renowned workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio. \n\nLeonardo worked with del Verrocchio until 1477, during which time del Verrocchio had been commissioned for a painting that would be The Baptism of Christ, and the painter had Leonardo aid him with the work by having his pupil paint the kneeling angel in the painting. Leonardo's angel was so outstanding that it shadowed del Verrocchio's portion of the work, and Leonardo is quoted to have later stated that "poor is a pupil that does not surpass his master." It is also said that Andrea del Verrocchio gave up his career as a painter, having suffered such humiliation by being out-painted by his own student.
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Do you mean Pope Clement VII? He hired Michaelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
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"The Mona Lisa (Italian, Spanish: La Gioconda; French: La Joconde), is an oil painting on poplar wood by the famous Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci and is perhaps the most famous painting in art history; few other works of art are as romanticized, celebrated, or reproduced. It is owned by the French government and hangs in the Musée du Louvre in Paris.\n\nThe painting shows a woman looking out at the viewer with what is often described as an "enigmatic smile"."\n\nCheck the source for more information.
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I dont... I dont think Da Vinci did either.
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Duhh, haven't you seen the paintings?!  That must be proof, after all--someone HAD to have seen it to have painted Him doing it right?
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How does a person decide to look for a code in paintings? He is an artist too. Writing the code as he claims to find it. I believe the scrolls may be valid but not any code. Its a hoax.
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Yes, Michelangelo was a very dedicated Catholic. You see he was commissioned to do many Catholic works of art, but it was up to him to lay out the paint and include the minute details.  You should read up on some of the beautiful inclusions he left in the biblical stories he would paint. He put his heart for Christ and his meditations on God into his art which are truly fascinating.\n\nThink of, for instance, the Last Judgement and look at the face of Christ and the stance of Peter who holds the keys.  There is an amazing interplay of emotion and speaks profoundly on the artists concept of the relationship the two had.\n\nOnly God creates. The rest of us just copy.\n\nLord grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.\n\nthese are the only two I can remember, but I am sorry they are not much of prayers from him.\n\np.s. He did not hate the Pope as one person asserted.  He was, however, annoyed by how the Pope forced him out of another project to start the Sistine Chapel and also kept him on past the initial terms of just painting the ceiling.\n\np.p.s. reading another answer that provides a cut and paste of M's life and asserts that his possible sin may have meant that he was not a 'born again' believer is a sad mistake by that person to believe that sin cannot be a part of the life of 'born again' believer.  Mich. did sin and so does the author of that response. It is not for us to judge someone's sin.
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Not one of my favorite paintings. I fail to see the attraction. Although it is definately haunting.\nI always have to wonder about a person's mindset, though, when they produce something like that.\nTraumatic event? Psychotic?
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The secret behind the Da Vinci Code is that it's claims are flat wrong and that the major basis of has already been proven bogus and manipulated.  \n\nIt tried to disprove the bible.  Dan Brown claims that:\n\n-"The Bible is a product of man...not of God." (Page 231)\n-"The New Testament is false testimony." (Page 345)\n-"The New Testament is based on fabrications." (Page 341)\n-"The Bible... has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book." (Page 231)\n\nIs there a woman in Leonardo’s Last Supper?\nLet’s do the math. Jesus and twelve apostles (all men) = 13 people. That’s how many people are in the picture. If Leonardo wanted Mary Magdalene in there, he would have to paint 14 people. \n\nLet’s do the history. The Last Supper was painted to decorate a dining room of a group of Dominican friars. Anyone of them was surely capable – especially when the painting was fresh and new – of noticing and asking why a woman was in the painting. But there is no record of anyone thinking that the figure to Jesus’ right was anyone but St. John because St. John was usually portrayed as a beardless, “pretty” rather than handsome youth. This “prettiness” was the artist’s way of highlighting his youth.\n\nLog on to www.wga.hu, click on Enter Here, click on “B” under “Artist Index,” scroll down and click on Bassano, Jacopo, scroll down his paintings and click on his Last Supper to get an enlarged view and see another young and “pretty” St. John.\n\nOr just think of Jeffrey Hunter playing Jesus in the “King of Kings” for a modern counterpart.\n\nAllow me to refer you to websites that would provide answers to your questions.
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a peasant girl and a wealthy man.\n He was born out of wedlock (his parents were never married) and the mother was not allow to see him although she always was secretly watching him while he played outside and stuff. The only person who really cared about him was his fathers younger brother Francesco. The rest of the family member were pretty cruel to him because his mother was a peasant. VInci is also a name of a town.
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He's an illusionist.. even he says that. In every show, he looks awesome. You pay too much attention on attire. Just watch the show and enjoy it. He's catholic too. In one show I saw him do the sign of the cross. And him and his family had prayed on the show before.
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It's Italian.  I think (underline think--I speak French but it's been years since I studied any Italian)\nI don't believe that this will make your presentations better.  I'm having trouble with migliorera  It looks like future and it looks like ameliorate (English for make better) so that is my educated guess.  Does it make sense in context?\nNow that you know it's Italian, you can try the evil on line translators and get a general idea.
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R u kidding me??? I love the italian accent!! it sounds like music to the ears... I love listening to italians pronoucing their names!! It is such a turn on...