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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
http
://www.leonardo-da-vinci-biography.com/images
/vitruvian-man-
large.jpg
http://www.kingsgalleries.com/leonardo-da-vi
nci
/
http://www.drawingsofleonardo.org/
http://www.mos.org/leonardo/bio.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/J001159/
famart.htm
http://www.leonardo-da-vinci-biography.com/v
itruvian-
man.html
http://voices.yahoo.com/leonardo-da-vinci-
study-human-anatomy-151429.html
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