3. Leonardo Da Vinci was born in 1452 in the town of Vinci, near Florence,Italy.
Leonardo Da Vinci was a great painter.However, he was also a talented
sculptor,musician,poet,architect… L. Da Vinci died peacefully on May 2. 1519 at
the age of 67.At the age of 15,Leonardo went to work with a famous artist.By 20,
he was a master painter. Leonardo was so talented that one day one of his
teachers threw down his brushes and never painted again. Often, da Vinci painted
in religious buildings, like churhces and monasteries. He is widely considered to
be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented
person ever to have lived. Leonardo was and is renowned primarily as a
painter.Leonardo's drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also regarded as a cultural
icon,Nevertheless, these few works, together with his notebooks, which contain
drawings, scientific diagrams, and his thoughts on the nature of painting, compose
a contribution to later generations of artists rivalled only by that of his
contemporary, Michelangelo.
His well-known works are Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The Vitruvian Man,
Lady with an Ermine.

4. Vasari's account of the Mona Lisa comes from his biography
of Leonardo published in 1550, 31 years after the artist's
death, and which has long been the best known source of
information on the provenance of the work and identity of
the sitter. That Leonardo painted such a work, and its date,
were confirmed in 2005 when a scholar at Heidelberg
University discovered a margin note in a volume of Cicero
printed in 1477. It had been written by Leonardo's
contemporary Agostino Vespucci and likened Leonardo to
Apelles, who is mentioned in the text. The margin note
states that Leonardo was at that time working on a painting
of Lisa del Giocondo and is dated October 1503.[6] At his
death in 1525, Leonardo's assistant Salai owned a portrait
named in his personal papers as la Gioconda which had
been bequeathed to him by the artist. Italian for "jocund",
"happy" or "jovial", La Gioconda ("the jocund one") was a
pun on the feminine form of the sitter's married name
Giocondo.[7][8] In French, the title La Joconde has the same
meaning.

6. Vincent van Gogh was born in 1853 in Groot-Zundert, Holland. Van
Gogh began to draw as a child, and he continued to draw throughout
the years that led up to his decision to become an artist. He did not
begin painting until his late twenties, completing many of his best-known
works during the last two years of his life. The extent to which his
mental health affected his painting has been a subject of speculation
since his death. Despite a widespread tendency to romanticize his ill
health, modern critics see an artist deeply frustrated by the inactivity and
incoherence brought about by his bouts of illness. According to art critic
Robert Hughes, van Gogh's late works show an artist at the height of his
ability, completely in control and "longing for concision and grace.
His well-known works are Starry Night, Sunflowers, Bedroom in
Arles, Portrait of Dr. Gachet, Sorrow.

7. The center part shows the village of Saint-Rémy
under a swirling sky, in a view from the asylum
towards north. The Alpilles far to the right fit to
this view, but there is little rapport of the actual
scene with the intermediary hills which seem to
be derived from a different part of the
surroundings, south of the asylum. The cypress
tree to the left was added into the composition.
[9] Of note is the fact van Gogh had already,
during his time in Arles, repositioned Ursa Major
from the north to the south in his painting Starry
Night Over the Rhone.

9. Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol
known as Salvador Dali known as Salvador Dali was a prominent Spanish surrealist
painter born in Figueres, Spain.
Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his
surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance
masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931.
Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in
collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media. Dalí was highly imaginative,
and also enjoyed indulging in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric manner
and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork,
to the dismay of those who held his work in high esteem, and to the irritation of his
critics.
His some works are The Persistence of Memory, Ballerina in a Death's Head,
Galatea of the Spheres

10. The figure in the middle of the picture can be read
as a "fading" creature, one that often appears in
dreams where the dreamer cannot pinpoint the
creature's exact form and composition. One can
observe that the creature has one closed eye with
several eyelashes, suggesting that the creature is
also in a dream state. The iconography may refer
to a dream that Dalí himself had experienced, and
the clocks may symbolize the passing of time as
one experiences it in sleep or the persistence of
time in the eyes of the dreamer.The Persistence
of Memory employs "the exactitude of realist
painting techniques“ to depict imagery more likely
to be found in dreams than in waking
consciousness.

12. He was born in Italy. He was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect,
poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development
of Western Art. Michelangelo was considered the greatest living artist in his
lifetime, and ever since then he has been held to be one of the greatest artists of
all time. A number of his works in painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among
the most famous in existence.His output in every field during his long life was
prodigious; when the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches, and
reminiscences that survive is also taken into account, he is the best-documented
artist of the 16th century.Two of his best-known works, the Pietà and David, were
sculpted before he turned thirty. Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo
also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western
art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the altar
wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
His works are David,The Creation of Adam, Pietà, Sistine Chapel Ceiling

13. The Creation of Adam is a section of Michelangelo's
fresco Sistine Chapel ceiling painted circa 1512. It is
traditionally thought to illustrate the Biblical creation
narrative from the Book of Genesis in which God
breathes life into Adam, the first man. Chronologically
the fourth in the series of panels depicting episodes
from Genesis on the Sistine ceiling, it was among the
last to be completed. It is the most well-known of the
Sistine Chapel fresco panels, and its fame as a piece
of art is rivaled only by the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da
Vinci. The image of the near-touching hands of God
and Adam has become one of the single most iconic
images of humanity and has been reproduced in
countless imitations and parodies. Along with
Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, The Creation of
Adam and the other Sistine Chapel panels are the
most replicated religious paintings of all time.

15. Giorgione was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance in Venice, whose
career was cut off by his death at a little over thirty. Giorgione is known for
the elusive poetic quality of his work, though only about six surviving
paintings are acknowledged for certain to be his work. The resulting
uncertainty about the identity and meaning of his art has made Giorgione
one of the most mysterious figures in European painting.
Together with Titian, who was slightly younger, he is the founder of the
distinctive Venetian school of Italian Renaissance painting, which achieves
much of its effect through colour and mood, and is traditionally contrasted
with the reliance on a more linear disegno of Florentine painting.
His some works are The Tempest, Sleeping Venus, Castelfranco
MadonnaThe Three Philosophers.

16. The picture is a typical Holy Conversation and shows the
Madonna enthroned with the Child with St. Francis to the right
and St. Nicasius to the left. The armored figure has also been
identified as the fighting saint St. George or St. Liberalis,
patron of Castelfranco. Matteo and his brother Bruto Muzio
were members of the Knights of Rhodes, whose ensign is
borne by St. Nicasius .The traditional scheme of composition
is lightened by the novel use of such elements as the throne
and the landscape, which takes up a good portion of the
background. Noteworthy is also the absence of any reference
to ecclesiastical elements of architecture.The technique of
painting is an example of what Vasari called pittura sanza
disegno (painting without drawing). This was a new approach
to painting which revolutionised the Venetian school and is
famously used in The Tempest. Titian, a pupil of Giorgione,
later became one of the most important exponents of this
style.