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Sistine Chapel is the best-known chapel in the Apostolic Palace; the official residence of the Pope in Vatican City. It is famous for its architecture and its decoration that was frescoed throughout by the greatest Renaissance artistMichelangelo.
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The Pietà (1498-1499) is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.
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David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504, by the Italian artist Michelangelo. It is a 5.17 metre (17 foot)[1] marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence.Originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral, the statue was instead placed in a public square, outside the Palazzo della Signo
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Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda or La Joconde) is a 16th-century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci during the Renaissance in Florence, Italy. The work is currently owned by the Government of France and is on display at the Musée du Louvre in Paris under the title Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo.[1]
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The pointing gesture of St. John toward the heavens suggests the importance of salvation through baptism that John the Baptist represents. The work is often quoted by later painters, especially those in the late Renaissance and Mannerist schools. The inclusion of a gesture similar to John's would increase the importance of a work with a religious conceit.
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The person who developed this alternate theory of the universe was Nicolaus Copernicus, who first proposed his heliocentric theory in a hand-written book he compiled in 1514. Understanding the ramifications of his theory, Copernicus spent nearly 30 years in further observations - checking and double checking his results. Finally, in 1543, one year before his death, Copernicus' treatise on a sun-centered universe hit the presses.
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The microscope was invented by Robert Hooke and is a tool may people use today all over our world. The microscope was first invented to discover plant cells, but is used now in all types of labs.
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In the 16th century, William Gilbert(1544-1603), the Court Physician to Queen Elizabeth I, proved that many other substances are electric (from the Greek word for amber, elektron) and that they have two electrical effects. When rubbed with fur, amber acquires resinous electricity; glass, however, when rubbed with silk, acquires vitreous electricity. Electricity repels the same kind and attracts the opposite kind of electricity. Scientists thought that the friction actually created the electricit
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Galileo, who had discovered that all pendulums of the same length took the same amount of time to complete one full swing, Huygens developed the first clock that could accurately measure time. Before Huygens, clocks used dripping water or complicated systems of weights and pulleys, but these clocks were very unreliable.
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In 1593 which, for the first time, allowed temperature variations to be measured. In 1714, Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer, the modern thermometer.
