January 1st, 2011 @ admin

Art of Painting

Florence is a cultural city of Art and many students come here to study art.

Frescoes are paintings on fresh plaster which helps it survive so well in time as it becomes part of the wall or ceiling. Colours were made from mixing stones and minerals with a medium. Fine brushes made from usually ox hair were used.

Famous Italian Artists

The most famous artists were Leonardo da Vinci who painted the ‘Mona Lisa’ in 1505 and ‘ The Last Supper’  in 1498. Michaelangelo painted the breathtaking Sistine Chapel in Rome. Boticelli and Raphael sculptured David in Florence, Raphael painted the  ’Madonna and Child’, and Boticelli painted ‘Venus’.

Leonardo was much more than an artist and sculptor he was also a  musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, geologist, anatomist, writer, inventor. He drew a design for a flying machine in 1488.