Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519 Renaissance Man, Genius Creative Commons
• 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
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 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.