... the most famous paintings in all of historyy was created during this period: the portrait of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, also known as La Gioconda, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. The painting is of a woman, dressed in the Florentine fashion of her day and seated in a visionary, mountainous landscape. Leonardo used remarkable sfumato technique of soft, heavily shaded ... ...

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... the common residents of the town, considering them to be inferior. Despite the possible downfalls that the republic had on Venice, they had much power throughout Europe. "The philosopher-poet Francesco Petrarch (1304-74) called it mundus alter, another world." (Brown, 9) In Florence, which is considered to be the most important center of Renaissance learning in history, the Medici family dominated ... ...

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