LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519) By Alice Xu. BIOGRAPHY Lionardo di ser Piedro da Vinci Leonardo, son of Piedro from Vinci) Birth date & year = April 15.

LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519)

By Alice Xu

BIOGRAPHYLionardo di ser Piedro da Vinci Leonardo, son of

Piedro from Vinci)

Birth date & year = April 15th, 1452

Birth place = Vinci, Italy

Raised by his stepmothers

Child of a landlord & peasant girl

Divorced & moved

Raised up by his father & his stepmothers

SELF PORTRAIT

RENAISSANCE MAN

Absolute genius

Painter, architect, musician, scientist,

inventor, mathematician, anatomist, etc.

Most well known as an artist

Was not considered as others since he did not

have any education

BAPTISM OF CHRIST

ANDREA DEL VERROCHIO (1470 -1475)

Renowned workshop in Florence ( age 15)

Helped his teacher to paint “Baptism of Christ” –

the angel in the painting

Shocked his master Verrochio b/c he was much

better than his master

1477 at age 20, he started his own workshop =

qualified as an artist

MONA LISA

LA GIOCONDA (1503-1519)

Mona means “noble”

Wife of Francesco del Giocondo = landowner

He painted on and off

Technique = oil painting on a poplar wood

THE LAST SUPPER

THE LAST SUPPER (1482-1498)

Mural painting for the Duke of Milan

Jesus in the middle announced that his 12

disciples would betray him

Reactions of disciples

VITRUVIAN MAN

FACT (1492-

Medium = pen & ink on paper, circle & square

Artists were interested in topographical anatomy

Proportion of man

Marcus Vitruvian Pollio = 1st century architect

Architecture should imitate nature in

UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BODIES

Influenced by his teacher Verrocchio

Was given permission to dissect corpses by a

hospital in Italy

Skeleton structure organs

Created theories of how the human body functions

Impact on scientific world

STUDY OF HORSES

STUDY OF HUMAN BODIES

MEDIUMS

Oil paints

Pencil

Fresco = watercolor on a wet plaster wall

Sculpted marble

INVENTIONS

Glider

Helicopter

Parachute

Maps

Automobile car

GLIDER

FLYING MACHINE

TANK

QUOTES

[Understanding] The noblest pleasure is the joy of

understanding.

[Intelligence] Anyone who conducts an argument by

appealing to authority is not his intelligence; he is just using

his memory.

[Anatomy] The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering

and a work of art.

[Focus] He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

IMAGES

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http://www.drawingsofleonardo.org/

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http://library.thinkquest.org/J001159/

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man.html

http://voices.yahoo.com/leonardo-da-vinci-

study-human-anatomy-151429.html