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The DaVinci Masterclass
The DaVinci Masterclass is where one explores the Mind & Methods of Leonardo da Vinci. It is taught by prof[…]
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Castagno’s Last Supper at Sant’Apollonia
In Renaissance Florence, the powerful guilds, known as “Arti,” were central to the city’s economic, political, and cultural life. [1][…]
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James the Greater and the Less
“It is not in your power to give greater divinity and beauty to any figures than you have done with[…]
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Symbols of the Bible
Slovak painter and author brought several interesting ideas that I decided to explore, with a special focus on Leonardo’s preparatory[…]
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Fine shading
In the nature you will very rarely find a straight line, most objects will have a curve to them, allowing[…]
Read moreLight and shadows
In every good drawing it is lawful to find a source of light, which determines the further. In the Venetian[…]
Read moreWhat has not come into the painting
And what has come. Here I try to explore some aspects, which we can find present in the Venetian drawing[…]
Read moreEuropean Paintings: From Leonardo to Rembrandt to Goya
If you have not tried yet, I highly recommend professor Alejandro Vergara’s online edX course: it is immensely informative about[…]
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Golden legend
Jacobus de Varagine (1230 – 1298) was a member of Dominican Order and became an Italian chronicler and archbishop of[…]
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Leonardo da Vinci’s preparatory study for The Last Supper
Leonardo da Vinci was creating various preparatory works before starting or during a creative process of his pieces of art[…]
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