Leonardo Da Vinci1452-1519

Renaissance Man, Genius

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Who was Leonardo Da Vinci ?

•Early life•Professional life•Old age•Assistants and pupils•His Work

• Painter• Sculptor• Architect• Musician• Scientist• Mathematician• Engineer• Inventor• Anatomist• Geologist• Cartographer• Botanist • Writer

AccomplishmentsItalian polymath :

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Leonardo’s Signature in a notebook

• Short hand Italian writing, he invented himself• Mirror writing.

Leonardo the ArtistCurious as well as

observant, he constantly tried to explain what he saw.

Because he wrote down and sketched so many of his observations, we know that he was among the very first to take a scientific approach towards understanding how our world works and how we see it

Mona Lisa or La Gioconda (1503–1505/1507)

The Adoration of the Magi

Mistery of Mona Lisa

•Records of a model sitting

•Theories that Leonardo painted himself

•Analyzing the facial features of Leonardo’s face and that of the famous painting

Leonardo the Artist

John the Baptist

Hugo van der Goes

The Last Supper (1498)

St. Jerome in the Wilderness

The Baptism of Christ

Virgin of the Rocks

Leonardo the Scientist

The famous Vitruvian Man

The drawing is based on the correlations of ideal human proportions with geometry described by the ancient Roman architect Vitruviusin Book III of his treatise De Architectura

Leonardo the Inventor and Engineer

Leonardo the Inventor

Leonardo the Inventor

Leonardo the Architect

Da Vinci designed the bridge as part of a civil engineering project for Sultan Bajazet II of Constantinople (Istanbul.)

Leonardo the Cartographer

Cartography is the process of map making and is an other subject area that Leonardo undertook and mastered! View this page dedicated to Leonardo's map-making work.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it

should have.

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