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Leonardo da Vinci A true Renaissance man
A jack-of-all-trades
• A sculptor
• A painter
• A designer
• A scientist
• A visionary
• Born in 1452 in Vinci about 60 miles from Florence
• At 15 he was taken to Florence to be an apprentice
• Apprentice: someone who lived with & worked for another for a specified period, in return for instruction in a trade or craft
• He learned painting, designing & sculpting under the master
• He spent long hours copying drawings to become familiar with the master's style
• He surpassed his master fairly quickly ... An artist of rare ability!
• Legendary story ....• At the age of 20, he opened his own workshop
Master of all trades: The Milan years
• The duke of Milan found an engineer, a painter, an architect and a sculptor in Leonardo
• Painted the "Last Supper" for a prior on the wall of a monastery (prior: person or officer in charge of a priory or monastery)
• Why did it take so long?
• Why has the fresco deteriorated?
Science, art & war
• Designed: a device that allowed a person to study an eclipse without damaging the eyes, the 1st parachute, a model city, and instruments.
• Studied math because he believed it was the foundation of art.
• Observed nature, drawing & recording
After Milan• After France captured Milan in
1499, he moved to Mantua & then to Florence
• Painted the "Mona Lisa"
• Viewers are mesmerized by the gaze and smile. What was she thinking?
• Returned to Milan and turned science as well as art.
• Worked for Pope Leo X in Rome
• Moved to France to work for King Francis I
Renaissance man• He only finished a dozen paintings & no sculpture
• Lots of detailed & accurate drawings of human body & mechanical devices
• 5,000 pages of sketches from notebooks
• He may not have been the best painter, sculptor, engineer or thinker of his time ... But no one has ever combined all these skills into one calling!
• That makes him a true Renaissance man.