Leonardo Da Vinci
What are the sources we possess learning about the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci and what are their strengths and weaknesses in revealing his personality?
Much of what we have learned about Leonardo da Vinci's life and inventions has been uncovered from the hundreds of drawings and writings he left behind. To date, thousands of these handwritten works have been spread across European museums and libraries. It is thought that Leonardo had the intention of publishing his works in a formal reference. However, this task, like many others, was never completed. The manuscripts that he left behind serve as indicators of the breadth and depth of his creative and ingenious mind. However, many are also illegible and written in reverse script. His stream of consciousness thinking and non-sequential order of the documents seem to suggest a mind and personality that was truly. They are overflowing with strange…...
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Reference
Vezzosi, Alessandro. Leonardo Da Vinci (New Horizons). London: Thames & Hudson, 1997.
Each of the articles is similar yet dissimilar. They are similar in that they all discuss Leonardo da Vinci in some respect, but differ in the subjects and theses in their discussion. The two articles that are most similar in the questions asked (or thesis presented) would have to be the article written by Martin Kemp and the article written by Patricia Rubin. Both of these authors approach da Vinci by trying to separate the man from the myth, the reality from the years of renowned celebration for his works. However, each approaches this task in a different way. Kemp begins by analyzing tangible evidence from da Vinci's life such as records for commissions, receipts from paid works, and written accounts by those who knew him, to piece together da Vinci's life as an artist during the High Renaissance. Rubin, on the other hand,…...
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Works Cited
Kemp, Martin. "Your Humble Servant and Painter': Towards a History of Leonardo Da Vinci in his Contexts of Employment." Gazette des Beaux-Arts. 140. (2002): 181-194. Print.
Rubin, Patricia. "What Men Saw: Vasari's Life of Leonardo da Vinci and the Image of the Renaissance Artist." Art History. 13.1 (1990): 34-43. Print.
"Seven Functions of the Hands of Christ." 139-150. Print.
Zollner, Frank. "Leonardo's Portrait of Mona Lisa del Giocondo." Gazette des Beaux-Arts. 121.
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Leonardo Da Vinci
egarded one of the most innovative and talented individuals of his time, BBC (2014) describes Leonardo da Vinci as "one of the greatest creative minds of the Italian enaissance, hugely influential as an artist and sculptor but also immensely talented as an engineer, scientist and inventor." A clearly multitalented individual, Leonardo da Vinci was born on the 15th day of April, 1452 (BBC, 2014). He was born out wedlock. His father was a prominent attorney while his mother is described in various texts as having been a simple peasant girl. As he grew up, Leonardo da Vinci spent most of his time with his father and was later on sent to Andrea del Verroccio - an accomplished painter and sculptor, as an apprentice (BBC, 2014).
One could say that it was while under the apprenticeship of Andrea that Leonardo da Vinci further developed an interest in paining and artistry.…...
ith a finite space, the supper room, Leonardo is able to precisely place objects in space using diminishing size and narrowing angle to draw the eye to the distance, although that distance is very close indeed, the rear wall. The three windows are no more than frames for what might well be pictures of the outside world, for all the detail of the exterior landscape they fail to show.
Leonardo's use of color in the Last Supper is in contrast to the solemnity of the event. Everyone knew that Jesus of Nazareth was a wanted man; he had already warned his followers that he would be arrested and might well leave them forever.
Yet, in Leonardo's painting, the group is attired in bright colors, and is engaged in animated conversation, not all of it solemn from the expressions on the faces. In setting the scene this way, Leonardo makes the point…...
Schultz, Juergen. "Leonardo Da Vinci." Atlantic Brief Lives: A Biographical Companion to the Arts. Ed. Louis Kronenberger. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1971. 454-457.
During this time period, artists began seriously thinking of the perspective of the work which they were creating, "he perspective focuses on the figure of Christ in the centre. The window behind his head looks like a halo. Judas is the only figure in the painting who is leaning away from Christ, and the only figure who is in shadow," (BBC, 2008). This gave the works produced a much more real feel to the observer, which essentially echoed the social feeling of the day, the "artists' emphasis on unique qualities of each human face, figure in attempt to show individual's character, personality in life-like way," (Mary Teresa McCullagh Project, 2000). This is seen in Leonardo da Vinci's most famous piece "The Last Supper." This piece utilizes a perspective which makes the onlooker feel as though they are directly in the context of the painting. Observers get the sense that…...
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Works Cited
Bambach, Carmen. "Leonardo da Vici." The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2008. 27
Introduction
The Renaissance was a time in which humanism and classical order united in the height of Christendom’s cultural power. The Renaissance would eventually be eclipsed by the Protestant Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Age of Enlightenment—all of which in some way reduced the achievements of the Renaissance and undermined the accomplishments of the era’s greats. Leonardo da Vinci was one such great of the Renaissance: in fact, it may be said that he was the very first Renaissance Man, as he was interested in everything—from painting to physiology to mathematics to military tactics. He certainly did it all and his notebooks, drawings, inventions and ideas show just how capable he was of doing everything required of a truly Renaissance Man.
Leonardo at the Beginning
Like many young men in Italy in the 15th century, Leonardo carved out a path for himself in Florence: after six years of apprenticeship, he was admitted…...
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Bibliography
of Vinciana. Ed. Carlo Pedretti. Renaissance Quarterly 47, no. 3 (1994): 721-723.Popham, A.E. The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. 1946.Sheen, Fulton. Life of Christ. NY: Image Books, 2008.
Leonardo Da Vinci
The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane." (Leonardo Da Vinci)
The Italian philosopher, engineer, architect, mathematician, draftsman, sculptor, and painter - Leonardo Da Vinci - was a man greatly beyond his era. His intellect, conceivably more than that of any other contemporary personality, characterized the revitalization of humanist ideals. Leonardo's personal writings uncover a character of logical inquiry and mechanized creativity that was well advanced for his period of time (Richter, 1970). Leonardo's Last Supper (1495-97) and Mona Lisa (1503-06) are counted in the company of the world's most extensively famous and inspirational artworks of the Renaissance era. He was one of those unique masterminds the likes whereof the world has not witnessed again.
Leonardo Da Vinci was like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the others were all still…...
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Works Cited
Freud, Sigmund. Leonardo Da Vinci: A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence. (tr. Brill, Abraham Arden). New York: Moffat, Yard & company, 1916.
Richter, J.P. (ed.) The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci. (2 Volumes) Columbia University Press, 1970
Sirben, Osvald. Leonardo Da Vinci: The Artist and the Man. (rev. William Rankin). New Haven: Yale University Press, 1916
Vasari, Giorgio. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects: Life of Leonardo Da Vinci. (tr. Gaston DeC. De Vere). London: Philip Lee Warner, 1912-1914.
The Life, Times and Influence of Leonardo Da VinciThe artist who created the most famous painting in the world, the Mona Lisa, was so brilliant and versatile that some observers today believe he may have been an alien visitor from an advanced civilization. While there is no evidence of this, given da Vincis massive contributions to multiple fields of discipline and legacy as the worlds greatest Renaissance Man, it is readily understandable how people today might think this. To determine the facts, the purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the relevant literature concerning the life and times of Leonardo da Vinci (hereinafter da Vinci) to describe what kind of man he was and how he influenced his contemporaries and those who came after him. Following this review, the paper provides a summary of da Vincis life and contributions in the conclusion.da Vincis Early LifeBorn on April…...
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Works Cited
Fiorineschi, Lorenzo, et al. “Systematic Design of Ancient Machines’ Models: Leonardo Da Vinci’s Glider.” Heritage (2571-9408), vol. 5, no. 3, Sept. 2022, pp. 1593–611.
Hooper, John. “Leonardo’s 1478 Car Hits the Showroom.” The Sun-Herald, 25 Apr. 2004, p. 28.
Pagel-Hogan, Elizabeth. The Science and Technology of Leonardo Da Vinci. Nomad Press, 2020.
Maybe that was the message in her eyes: I know you like me and I let you enjoy painting my portrait. I am intelligent, gentle and beautiful and I take no pride in it. Leonardo, you succeeded to present the world with the essence of feminine…...
Da Vinci and Michaelangelo
During the Renaissance, artists evolved many of the techniques which are now employed in creating works of art. There are many great artists who came out of this historical time period and while they have somewhat similar techniques and similar subject matters, they all have unique attributes as well. In this time, one of the biggest differences between artists of the Renaissance and ones that came before is the interest that artists had in the human body and the human form. Before this time, people were painted in a flat way, but Renaissance painters tried to make the people seem more realistic, which many were very successful in accomplishing this. Two of the artists in the Renaissance who are considered to be the best are Leonardo da Vinci and Michaelangelo. When looking at their most famous works, "The Mona Lisa" and "The Sistine Chapel Ceiling" respectively, the…...
Even his paintings are different in that he took painting to another level. e read that Leonardo believed that "art should be considered a form of creative knowledge, on the same level as science and philosophy" (Pedretti). As a result of this different approach to painting, Leonardo's art stands out because his method was that of a master. He incorporated sfumato in his painting, which is the technique of "placing colours next to one another rather than demarcating contours with clear cut lines" (Leonardo Online) and by doing so, he reached a "point that nobody before had reached: a way of representing living and vivacious reality" (Leonardo Online). The Mona Lisa, Leda and the Swan, and the Virgin of the Rocks illustrate Leonardo's technique that brings his subjects to life. His genius was not limited to thought and because he was able to organize his thoughts and put them on…...
Management Davinci
Business Success Through Da Vinci's Philosophical Orientation
The 1999 text How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci by Michael Gelb is a useful and entertaining discussion on how the philosophical principles of one of history's greatests thinkers can be applied to modern business practices as well as to self-improvement on an everyday level.
Thinking Like a Manager and Evaluating a Company:
One of the overarching beliefs driving the Gelb philosophy is that one need not necessarily be a genius in order to think like one. To the point, Gelb argues that Da Vinci was particularly graceful at training his mind to think in certain ways, to observe matters according to certain principles which are today applicable to models of leadership. Gelb offers what he calls "seven steps to genius every day" as influenced by the life and working habits of Da Vinci. The seven steps call for the individual to approach life…...
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Works Cited:
Gelb, M. (1999). How To Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci. Dell.
He was an amazing man with an amazing mind, and as current projects show, many of his designs are just as viable today as they were in the 15th century when he conceived them.
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The last supper is what gives the basis of the Eucharist according to the scriptures Therefore Leonardo used this tradition to form the basis for his painting.
Leonardo's painting the last supper was principally divided into three groups the first group was made up of Bartholomew, James the lesser and Andrew from the first group of three, here they ball appear surprised and Andrew holds his hands up in front of him in a gesture that depicted that he was frightened. The second group is made up of judas, simon peter and John .Judas here is holding a silver bag in his right hand and at the same time reaching with his left hand a piece of bread.simon peter leaning over Johns shoulder and holding a knife in his right hand symbolizes his readiness to defend Jesus while John appears to be swooning. This goes against the tradition since Judas…...
Art Heist Unravels: The Case of the Stolen Masterpieces
In the annals of art crime, the recent theft of a collection of priceless masterpieces from the National Gallery has sent shockwaves through the art world and beyond. The heist, which occurred under the cover of darkness, has left authorities baffled and the public reeling in disbelief.
The Stolen Treasures
The stolen works include some of the most iconic and valuable paintings in history. Among them are "The Starry Night" by Vincent van Gogh, "The Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci, and "The Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Johannes Vermeer. Their combined value....
I. Introduction A. Hook: Begin with a captivating fact or anecdote about airplanes. B. Thesis statement: State the main argument or purpose of the essay, such as discussing the history, impact, or future of airplanes.
II. History of Airplanes A. Early experiments and pioneers: 1. Leonardo da Vinci's sketches 2. Wright brothers' first flight B. Technological advancements: 1. Jet engines 2. Supersonic flight 3. Modern composite materials
III. Impact of Airplanes on Society A. Transportation: 1. Connecting people and places 2. Facilitating global trade B. Economy: 1. Creating jobs and industries 2. Boosting tourism C. Military: ....
In the realm of visual arts, composition holds unparalleled importance, orchestrating the interplay of elements to create a harmonious and impactful whole. Amidst the myriad of compositional techniques, negative space stands out as a pivotal force, often overlooked yet indispensable in shaping the overall composition of a piece of art. Negative space, the area of a composition devoid of distinct forms or objects, exerts a profound influence on the visual narrative, enhancing depth, contrast, and visual rhythm.
Depth and Spatial Illusion
Negative space serves as a catalyst for creating the illusion of depth. By surrounding and....
1. The Rise and Dawn of Autonomous Machines: Tracing the Historical Evolution of Robotics
Discuss the origins and early developments of robotics, from antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Examine the contributions of key inventors and pioneers, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Vaucanson, and Jacquard. Trace the gradual shift towards automation and the emergence of industrial robots.
2. The Human-Robot Interface: A Historical Exploration of Anthropomorphism and Embodiment
Analyze the historical development of robots designed to resemble and interact with humans. Examine the ethical, social, and cultural implications of anthropomorphic robots. Discuss the evolution of robotic embodiment, from crude machines to highly....
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