Venus de Milo ( Венера Милосская)

- ancient Greek sculpture, created between about 130 and 100

years BC.
History of creation:
The conquests of Alexander the Great contributed to the spread of Greek culture far beyond the borders of Greece. From now on the immediate neighbors of Greece was a lot of different people. This brought a new realism in the art of that period. Artists began to prefer the image of various facets of human nature. Even those statues of the gods are now lent traits of real people.

white marble. It is a type of Cnidus Aphrodite (Latin

Venus pudica, Venus bashful.): Goddess, stick hand fallen robe. For the first time this type of sculpture carved Praxiteles around 350 BC. e. The height of the statue of Venus de Milo - 2.02 m, body proportions at recalculation on the growth of 164 cm make 89-69-93

found in 1820 on the island of Milos (Melos) -

one of the Cyclades islands in the Aegean Sea in the following circumstances. French sailor Olivier Vute decided went down to the shore, look for ancient times (at the time there was a boom in the ancient times) for sale. On a couple of the local farmer Giorgos Kentrotasom he dug up a statue in the ruins of the ancient amphitheater.

years BC..); while the authorship attributed to Praxiteles. But it

turned out that the statue was brought and the pedestal on which it was written that Agesandr (or Alexander, the inscription was illegible), the son of silverside, a citizen of Antioch on the Meander, has made this statue. Thus, the statue belongs to the Hellenistic period. Subsequently, the pedestal was gone and was not found until now.

Venus de Milo

painting (like Alberti), but never did.
He seems to have not

mastered Latin, the language of scholarship.
- or perhaps he was simply too busy.

he used mirror-writing to ensure privacy while and after he

wrote.
More mundanely, perhaps he did so because he was left handed and found this easier.

a mind constantly searching for understanding.
He was constantly examining and

disecting the world.

studies of the human arm to plans for a bridge

to cross the Golden Horn in Istanbul.

impossible.
In 2006 the Turkish government commissioned Bulent Gungor to build

the structure.

in so many things, he could not manage his time.
When

given the commission for the Virgin of the Rocks, he promised it within 7 months but did not deliver it until 25 years later.

largest equestrian statue ever attempted, at 26 feet in height

and requiring 100 tons of bronze.
The clay model was not completed until 1493.
His bronze stockpile was cast into canons to fight the French.
In 1499, the French used his clay model for target practice.
Until 1965 it was assumed that the statue was never caste because of technological problems. However, close study of his notebooks reveal that he solved the problem on paper.

refectory of a Dominican monastery.
He disastrously decided to use oils,

instead of fresco, on the damp walls.
It deteriorated almost immediately.

hired musicians playing for him, the project dragged on to

the point where the monks threatened to lock him in until the work was finished.
Legend has it that Leonardo retaliated by painting the abbot as the image of Judas.

he competed, with Michelangelo, for a large battle mural for

the town hall.
This work was lost when he again attempted a new medium – oil and varnish.
Michelangelo also failed to complete his work.

most famous work.
Begun in 1503, it was still in his

possession when he died in France.
Salai sold it to the French King for 4,000 ecus, and so it now resides in the Louvre.

of Francesco del Giocondo.
The pyramidic design is one often employed

by Leonardo.
The etherial landscape reveals his characteristic sfumato and the path reinforces the tendency of the eye to follow a triangular pattern.

commented on.
His capture of this transient expression displays unparalleled virtuosity.

is actually not a direct portrait of a Florentine woman

at all – or that da Vinci has placed elements of his own image in the portrait..

being hounded to complete the civic mural.
Pope Leo X was

loathe to commission the great artist, knowing his reputation for not completing his work.

court of France’s Francis I – a great patron of

the arts.
There, he spent his last years in luxury, chatting with the King and fussing with his manuscripts.

Francis’chateau at Amboise.
He is rumoured to have died in Francis’

arms.
Francis said of him: “no man has been born who knew as much as Leonardo.