Art

The Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, is one of the most fascinating paintings in history. It continues to captivate historians, artists, scientists, and even doctors who analyze art from a medical perspective. The Gioconda is no exception.

In this masterpiece, da Vinci masterfully blends mystery and serenity into the smile, while the gaze portrays both innocence and complicity, as though the subject and viewer share a secret. The painting provides harmony and invites viewers to see beyond the surface into the soul of the portrait.

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Since a fateful night in March 1990, the largest art theft in U.S. history, committed at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, remains unsolved. One of the 13 stolen works was Rembrandt’s The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, completed in 1633 when he was only 29.

Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn, born in the Netherlands in 1606, is considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. His studio, opened at a young age in 1627, received commissions for the masterful work that would later make him an icon of...

Greek Sculptor and Bronze Artist
Myron is a maximum representative of the transition period between the so-called "severe style" and the classicism of the fifth century BC, dominated by Phidias. Born in Eleutera, he was a disciple of Hageladas, perfecting himself as a bronze artist.

Little is known of his biography, but his prestige was not diminished by the passage of time, as confirmed by sources ranging from Pausanias to Pliny, who regarded him as one of the greatest Greek sculptors during the Roman Empire.

Contribution to Sculpture
Stylistically, Myron's great contribution was his ability...

Leonardo da Vinci, the Homo Universalis, the Renaissance sage, and the artist versed in all fields of human knowledge. He was not only an artist but also an eminence in aerodynamics, cooking, hydraulics, anatomy, poetry, and botany.

And of course, for what we know him today: for his paintings, sculptures, and magnificent architecture. He is, together with Michelangelo and Raphael, part of the holy trinity of Renaissance art. His life was a legend, fueled by cryptic writings, futuristic inventions, and masterpieces of paintings.

When he was a kid, he already showed an insatiable curiosity, as he was already drawing...