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Learning from the Ancients. The Renaissance, a cultural movement of which Leonardo is today considered an icon, was sparked by a rediscovery and “rebirth” of classical—that is, ancient Greek and Roman—culture and thought.
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Leonardo was born on 15 April 1452 CE, the illegitimate son of a lawyer from the town of Vinci near Florence. A gifted child, especially in music and drawing, c. 1464 CE the young Leonardo was sent off to pursue a career as an artist and study as an apprentice in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435-1488 CE). Other notable future artists ...
Leonardo was far from being restricted to art and his interests were wide indeed, encompassing just about all the physical world. He studied architecture, engineering, geometry, perspective, mechanics, and hydraulics to satisfy himself just how things worked and why they appeared as they do to the human eye. The natural world was not neglected with...
Leonardo's versatility is further illustrated in his employment by Ludovico Sforza (1452-1508 CE), the Duke of Milan. Leonardo had moved to the city in 1482 CE and he acted as the principal Sforza military and naval engineer, on the one hand, and master painter and sculptor, on the other. Leonardo also produced ingenious automata for Ludovico's fes...
Leonardo visited Venice in 1500 CE. Around this time he painted his erotic version of the Leda and the Swan story from Greek mythology which is now lost, although sketches survive. In 1502 CE Leonardo worked in Rome where he was commissioned by the statesman Cesare Borgia (1475-1507 CE) to sort out the city's canals. He also mapped the city and sur...
The sheer diversity of work left by Leonardo has astounded historians and critics ever since his death. As the Renaissance historian Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1887 CE) famously stated, "the colossal outlines of Leonardo's nature can never be more than dimly and distantly conceived" (104). Leonardo's artistic works were influential on fellow Renaissanc...
Mona Lisa The Mona Lisa (La Giocondain Italian) is an oil on wood panel portrait of an unidentified woman made by Leonardo between c. 1503 and 1506 CE. It measures 98 x 53 centimetres (38 x 21 inches), a relatively small size that often surprises modern viewers used to seeing this iconic image in larger reprints. The painting, rather than merely ca...
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Apr 6, 2019 · Leonardo was the illegitimate son of Ser Piero da Vinci, a notary from a wealthy family of landowners near Florence and a friend of the artist Andrea del Verrocchio (1435–88), one of the most celebrated sculptors and painters of the early Renaissance.
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Jan 22, 2017 · His work on anatomy can grossly be divided into two stages: his earlier artistic pieces and his later analytical studies. 1 Leonardo’s earliest studies focused on illustrating ancient texts and indulging in anatomical explanations of metaphysics; he was concerned with the soul and the eye as a means to both localize the soul and better ...
The Vitruvian Man. In the accompanying text to the drawing, Leonardo describes his intention to study the proportions of man as described by the first-century BC Roman architect Vitruvius (after whom the drawing was named) in his treatise De Architectura (On Architecture, published as Ten Books on Architecture).
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Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. The ideal Renaissance man was well versed in many different areas of knowledge. One such man was the artist Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519), who was born in Vinci, a town near Florence. Leonardo, who today is considered to be the founder of High Renaissance style, was an artist, architect, inventor, engineer ...
Dec 2, 2009 · Leonardo da Vinci—architect, inventor, scientist and painter of the 'Mona Lisa' and 'The Last Supper'—was a major figure of the Italian Renaissance.
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