Leonardo Da Vinci
Biography
Name:
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
Date of Birth:
15 April 1452
Capability:
-had a keen and quick mind that led him to invent something
-gentleman who loved animals and despised war
-greatest painters of Italian Renaissance
Profession:
-painter
-sculpture
-architect
-musician
-inventor
-writer
-scientiest
-mathematician
-engineer
-cartograher
-geologist
-anatomist
Inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci
Natural Science
- the effects of light on solids were achieved by trail and error. Pierro della Francesca having accurate art and science knowledge of the subject.
Medicine
- he has been through to draw the human body from life to memorize the muscles, tendons and visible subcutaneous structure and to familiarize himself with the mechanics of the various parts of the skeletal and muscular structure.
Engineering
- he utilized leverage and cantilevering pulleys. cranks, gears including angle gears and rack pinion gears, parallel leakage, momentum and the aero foil.
(pinion gear)
War Machine
- there is an array of war machines in his notebooks which is include a tank to be propelled by two men powering crank shaft.
(drawing of the war machine by Leonardo)
Flying Machine
- the desire to fly is expressed in the man studies and drawings.His journal contain a detailed study of the flight of birds and several designs for wing based in structure upon those of bats which he described as being less heavy because of the impenetrable nature of membrane.
(the study of a flight)
(drawing of flying machine by Leonardo)
Leonardo Da Vinci's Painting
Title:
Annuciation
Details:
-this artwork was created and produced in 1472 and 1474
-the painting was originaly housed in the Convent of Morte Oliveto outside Florence
-the painting was influence of Verrocchio on the young Leonardo. The sculpture, draperies and the forms of the Virgin's reading table which call to mind Verrocchio's tomb for Peiro de' Medici
-the angle holds a madonna lily, a symbol of Mary's virginity in flight. When the Annuciation came to the Uffizi in 1867, it was ascribed to Domenico, who was Leonardo
Leonardo : History.Life.Profession.Cultural
Got his start as an artist in year 1469. His father apprenticed him to the folded workshop of Verrocchio. He quickly surpassed Verrocchio and by the time he was in his earlier twenties he was downright famous.
Leonardo tried to create faithful, brilliant renditions of life with perspective and other elements. In a cultural side previously dominated by highly figurative and downright strange religious paintings, Leonardo;s desired to paint things with human being and realistic method.
