I choose the video Velázquez and Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance. The first one Velazquez was very related with the Spanish class civilization of Spain that I already take last semester. I remember his name that give me interest in watch the video and learn more about him. The second one about Leonardo Da Vinci I found the title very related to the chapter. In the video about Velazquez I learn about how he chronicled the life and times of his friend King Philip the Fourth, who built the core of the Prado collection , with El Greco, Goya, and Picasso, comprises the quartet of the greatest painters of Spain. Velazquez is an idealist from a vantage point above reality. Paintings of the Villa Medici in Rome reveal a tactile reality and roots of Impressionism. Returning to Spain, Velazquez paints his finest works like "Las Meninas" and "Phillip IV." He was miraculous at painting the truth with his technical expertise. The second video about Leonardo Da Vinci I learn about all his life. Painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and student of anatomy, physiology, botany, architecture, hydrodynamics, aeronautics, and other disciplines, he was the quintessential "Renaissance man." Da Vinci become first painter, engineer, and architect to the King. Leonardo dies in 1519 at the age of sixty-seven. The videos was very related to the chapters the talk about the renascences. They definitely deep me in more understanding. In this occasion I understand better the concepts of the video for the experience that I have reading the text and my course of Spanish.
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