Art Means a Lot

2013 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Almanzar
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Second Language ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Da Vinci ◽  
Language Barrier ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Language Class ◽  
As If

Art means a lot to me. Growing up in New York as a young teenager who came from another country, I felt as if I was an outcast from society due to the language barrier and numerous ethnic groups different than mine. Coming to New York from the Dominican Republic, I was placed in an ESL (English as a Second Language) class at Leonardo da Vinci IS 61 in Queens. I remember trying to speak to a girl who was not an ESL student. She was playing with her friends, tossing an orange back and forth, when she failed to catch it and the orange landed by my feet. She did not notice where it had gone, so I picked it up and tried to toss it back to her, at the same time telling her in Spanish, “Here it is.” The girl jumped back surprised and thought that I tried to hit her with the orange, so she began to curse me out. I didn't know what she was saying, but it was clear that it wasn't nice. I tried to explain myself, but she was not trying to hear me. This experience made me feel terrible.

scholarly journals Mona in the mirror

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. 754-756
Author(s):  
Digby Quested
Keyword(s):  
Da Vinci ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
As If

In ‘Leonardo Da Vinci and a memory of his childhood’, Freud (1910) provided an analysis of the artist's personality and sexuality, with a description of his capacity to sublimate his libido into creative works. He discussed the Mona Lisa's ability to command attention and induce differing emotions within the viewer. In his paper he described the distinct elements of her expression, “The contrast between reserve and seduction, and between the most devoted tenderness and a sensuality that is ruthlessly demanding – consuming men as if they were alien beings”.

scholarly journals UNFOLDING LEONARDO DA VINCI’S GLOBE (AD 1504) TO REVEAL ITS HISTORICAL WORLD MAP

2017 ◽  
Vol IV-2/W2 ◽  
pp. 303-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. J. Verhoeven ◽  
S. J. Missinne
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Da Vinci ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Surface Geometry ◽  
New York Public Library ◽  
Left Handed ◽  
World Vision ◽  
The World ◽  
Renaissance Artist

This paper reports in detail on the image-based modelling and unwrapping approach used to create a two-dimensional projected map of an astonishing ostrich egg globe from AD 1504. This miniature egg globe is not only the oldest extant engraved globe, but it is also the oldest post-Columbian globe of the world and the first ever to depict Newfoundland and many other territories. The intention of digitally recording the surface geometry and colour of this unique artefact was to portray the original layout of the world map used by the Florentine Renaissance artist to make this globe. In addition, it was expected to substantiate iconographical details, which are hard to study at its scale of 1:80,000,000.<br><br> The ostrich egg globe is the prototype of the Lenox Globe kept at the New York Public Library. The latter is very beneficial to examine how the egg globe looked like before being glued together at its equator. On the other hand, unfolding the map engraved in the ostrich egg halves enables a more detailed study of the remarkable details visible on both globes, since the engravings on the quasi-white egg surface are much easier to discern than those of the highly reflective red copper Lenox Globe. Finally, a detailed study of the unwrapped 3D surface is essential to learn more about the world vision of its creator and the incredible efforts that went into making this globe. Thanks to some particular pictographic details as well as the way in which the engravings are applied (by a left-handed person), the globe artist can be identified as Leonardo da Vinci.

Replication of Internal Biological Surfaces

1972 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 308-309
Author(s):  
J. A. Nowell ◽  
J. Pangborn ◽  
W. S. Tyler
Keyword(s):  
Da Vinci ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Rat Lung ◽  
Tubular Structures ◽  
Cerebral Ventricles ◽  
Internal Surfaces ◽  
Biological Surfaces ◽  
Dog Kidney ◽  
Lung And Kidney ◽  
Scanning Electron

Leonardo da Vinci in the 16th century, used injection replica techniques to study internal surfaces of the cerebral ventricles. Developments in replicating media have made it possible for modern morphologists to examine injection replicas of lung and kidney with the scanning electron microscope (SEM). Deeply concave surfaces and interrelationships to tubular structures are difficult to examine with the SEM. Injection replicas convert concavities to convexities and tubes to rods, overcoming these difficulties.Batson's plastic was injected into the renal artery of a horse kidney. Latex was injected into the pulmonary artery and cementex in the trachea of a cat. Following polymerization the tissues were removed by digestion in concentrated HCl. Slices of dog kidney were aldehyde fixed by immersion. Rat lung was aldehyde fixed by perfusion via the trachea at 30 cm H2O. Pieces of tissue 10 x 10 x 2 mm were critical point dried using CO2. Selected areas of replicas and tissues were coated with silver and gold and examined with the SEM.

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