It doesnt always cause symptoms, but it can be prevented. Get screened. Make sure you are the picture of health. The eye, which is the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding may most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of nature. [bell ringing] this is the countryside seen 500 years ago by a child who was destined to become one of the unique figures in the history of western civilization. What he began to learn in this italian countryside outside vinci was to know how to see. His genius gave him the ability to see clearly what others could only see mistily, transforming his life and influencing ours as well. As painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist, he searched the whole nature of creation, always beginning with what he could see. Leonardo da vinci was the natural son of piero da vinci and a handsome peasant girl named caterina. Leonardos character as a man suggests that he had a happy childhood. Throughout his life, he was sensi
Gam made possible by the Financial Support of. And the following individuals and foundations. Corporate funding for art of the western world is by movado, makers of the Movado Museum watch, the watch dial design in the permanent collections of museums throughout the world. Captioning made possible by the Annenberg Cpb project this is siena, a wonderfully preserved Medieval City in central italy. At its heyday around 1300, it was one of the most civilized and prosperous places in europe. Siena and other italian citystates can stand as a new beginning in our story of western art. Hitherto, the old medieval world view had, put simply, divided the classes of society into the aristocracy at the top, the church, and the laboring peasantry at the bottom. In places like this, we see for the first time a new class, conscious of its own identity the merchants. These cities were no longer controlled by feudal lords. They were republics. Here in siena, several thousand citizens were eligible for e
The watch dial design in the permanent collections of museums throughout the world. Captioning made possible by the Annenberg Cpb project this is siena, a wonderfully preserved Medieval City in central italy. At its heyday around 1300, it was one of the most civilized and prosperous places in europe. Siena and other italian citystates can stand as a new beginning in our story of western art. Hitherto, the old medieval world view had, put simply, divided the classes of society into the aristocracy at the top, the church, and the laboring peasantry at the bottom. In places like this, we see for the first time a new class, conscious of its own identity the merchants. These cities were no longer controlled by feudal lords. They were republics. Here in siena, several thousand citizens were eligible for election to the governing bodies which met down there in the palazzo publica. And in the palazzo, there is a fresco painted in the 1340s which encapsulates their faith in the secular arts of
[bell ringing] this is the countryside seen 500 years ago by a child who was destined to become one of the unique figures in the history of western civilization. What he began to learn in this italian countryside outside vinci was to know how to see. His genius gave him the ability to see clearly what others could only see mistily transforming his life and influencing ours as well. As painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist, he searched the whole nature of creation, always beginning with what he could see. Leonardo da vinci was the natural son of piero da vinci and a handsome peasant girl named caterina. Leonardos character as a man suggests that he had a happy childhood. Throughout his life, he was sensitive, generous, and gentle. The story is told of him buying up Little Songbirds in the marketplace of florence so that he could free them from their cages. He was a vegetarian because the slaughter of animals disgusted him. Once passing a butcher shop hung with carcasses,
This is siena, a wonderfully preserved Medieval City in central italy. At its heyday around 1300, it was one of the most civilized and prosperous places in europe. Siena and other italian citystates can stand as a new beginning in our story of western art. Hitherto, the old medieval world view had, put simply, divided the classes of society into the aristocracy at the top, the church, and the laboring peasantry at the bottom. In places like this, we see for the first time a new class, conscious of its own identity the merchants. These cities were no longer controlled by feudal lords. They were republics. Here in siena, several thousand citizens were eligible for election to the governing bodies which met down there in the palazzo publica. And in the palazzo, there is a fresco painted in the 1340s which encapsulates their faith in the secular arts of government, in the moderating power of reason in human society. Its called the effects of good government. This marvous fresco, painted by