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I. Early LifeA. Born April 15, 1452
B. Extremely curious; observed natural world for hours
C. Showed artistic talent artist at very early age
1. Apprenticed to Verrocchio, famous Florentine painter
2. Assisted Verrocchio with The Baptism of Christ & other works
II. Leonardo the NaturalistA. Felt the best way to learn about the world
was to observe1. Spent hours studying & sketching nature
2. Studied flow of water & theorized on creation of canals similar to Panama Canal opened in 1914 3. Studied flight of
birds; theorized on flight of man
III. Leonardo the AnatomistA. Received corpses from Florence morgue
1. Dissected corpses to study body & how it works
2. Believed understanding anatomy enhanced his art
3. First to diagram skeletal & muscular system, the eye, brain, heart & human fetus
4. Discoveries were hundreds of years ahead of their time, were not published until after his death
IV. Leonardo the EngineerA. If asked, Leonardo would have said
he was first an engineer
B. Most of his designs never built1. System for operating a steering wheel2. Portable bridges built 500 years later
3. The armored tank; designed so it could not be built
4. Multi-barreled cannon on a cart self-driven with gears & weights
V. Fascinated with FlightA. Da Vinci was fascinated with
human flight
1. Studied forms of birds & bats to design his “ornithopter”
Da Vinci’s helicopter –the “Aerial Screw”
VI. Leonardo the SculptorA. As a sculptor, da Vinci was
fascinated with anatomy & musculature of horses1. Designed massive bronze horse
sculpture for Duke of Milan2. Bronze was assembled, but made
into weapons when Milan was attacked
3. Not built during da Vinci’s life4. Completed in 1999 as gift from
USA to Milan Play Video
Beeswax cast of Horse & Rider - the only Leonardo sculpture in existence
5. Before painting or sculpting, Leonardo completed sketches called “studies”
VII. Leonardo the PainterA. Leonardo is definitely most well-
known as a painter1. Often made his own paints2. Pioneered layering of paint & use of
perspective & vanishing points3. Invented sfumato (smoke) technique,
where colors blended without clear lines of division
Da Vinci’s Virgin of the Rocks