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Leonardo DaVinci

Painter, sculptor, architect, musician,scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor,anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist

and writer

(1452 1519)


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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

Born April 15, 1452 in Vinci(Florence, Italy)

His name means Leonardo,son of Piero, from Vinci

He is the best example of

a Renaissance Mansomeone who was very goodat many things

He is considered one of thegreatest painters of all time

and the most diversely talentedperson ever to have lived


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Informal education included latin, geometry and mathematics, hewas not a stand out student

Apprenticed to a renowned Painter, he was so good, his teacherstopped painting because he couldnt compare

Annunciation (1475-1480)


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The Last Supper, (1490)

Leonardos The Last Supper was declared a masterpiece immediately,

but it deteriorated quickly, so that within 100 years, it was almost completely ruined.

Leonardo chose a kind of paint that flaked off and grew mold, rather than painting a

fresco as others of his day were doing.


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John the Baptist (1514)

The model is daVincis student Salai

Only about 15 of his paintings

survive today, mostly because

he painted with experimentaltechniques, which ended up

peeling, flaking and fading from

the canvas. But Leonardo also

kept notebooks, drawing in

them every day, and his

drawings survive where his

paintings do not.


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A page from daVincis notebook

DaVincis notebooks are

packed with over 13,000 pages

of detailed drawings and notes

on an enormous range ofinterests, like designs for wings

and shoes for walking on

water. He drew faces,

emotions, animals, plants,

dissected cadavers, war

machines, helicopters and

architecture.

DaVinci was left handed, and

all of his writing in the

notebooks is writtenbackwardsin cursiveso that it

reads correctly when seen in a

mirror!


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Many of his inventions werehundreds of years ahead of their

time. In 1502, he designed a bridgewith a single span of 720 feet for thesultan of Istanbul. 504 years later, in2006, the Turkish governmentdecided to build the bridgeaccording to Leonardos plan!


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While Italy was at war with France in 1502, he created a map forCesare Borgia, the son of Pope Alexander VI. Maps were exremelyrare at this timea new concept and big military advantage. Cesarehired Leonardo to be his chief military engineer and architect


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The Mona Lisa (1503-05)

Leonardo started the most

famous painting in the world, the

Mona Lisa or

la Gioconda (the laughing one)in 1503. Its fame rests mostly in

her strange smile. The artists

subtle shadowing at the corners

of her mouth and eyes which

came be known as sfumato orLeonardos smoke was

evidence of his incredible talent

in showing human expression.

All who saw it were awestruck.

One of the few of his paintings tosurvive, it lives at the Louvre,

Paris.


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In 1515, King Francis I of France captured

Milan, Italy and Leonardo entered the kings

service. King Francis became a close friend,

and legend has it that

the king cradled

Leonardos head in his

arms as Leonardo died

on May 12, 1519 at

Clos Luc, France.

Statue of

Leonardo outsidethe Uffizi in

Florence

Self portrait

Clos Luc

(leonardos final residence)


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In the normal course of events many men and women are born

with remarkable talents; but occasionally, in a way that

transcends nature, a single person is marvellously endowedby Heaven with beauty, grace and talent in such abundance

that he leaves other men far behind, all his actions seem

inspired and indeed everything he does clearly comes

from God rather than from human skill. Everyone

acknowledged that this was true of Leonardo da Vinci,

an artist of outstanding physical beauty, who displayed

infinite grace in everything that he did and who

cultivated his genius so brilliantly that all problems

he studied he solved with ease.

Art Historian Giorgio Vasari, 1568

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