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Fact |
Category |
Date |
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31 |
Leonardo Da Vinci's drawing showing the proportions of man is called the "Vitruvian Man". |
Humanities > Art |
02/23/09 |
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32 |
"Pietà", a marble sculpture of Mary holding and grieving over the dead body of Jesus, was completed by Michelangelo in 1499. |
Humanities > Art |
02/24/09 |
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33 |
The Pietà and the David were sculpted by Michelangelo before he became thirty years of age. |
Humanities > Art |
03/18/09 |
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34 |
Marcel Duchamp entitled a urinal as art and called it "Fountain" in 1917. |
Humanities > Art |
04/05/09 |
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35 |
"The Last Supper" was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci. |
Humanities > Art |
06/17/09 |
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36 |
"La Gioconda" is another name for Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa". |
Humanities > Art |
06/18/09 |
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37 |
"The Storm on the Sea of Galilee" was painted by Rembrandt van Rijn in 1633. |
Humanities > Art |
06/25/09 |
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38 |
"The Birth of Venus" was painted in the 1480s by Sandro Botticelli. |
Humanities > Art |
06/27/09 |
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39 |
Michelangelo's ceiling in Sistine Chapel has lost only one piece in five centuries. |
Humanities > Art |
07/08/15 |
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