LIFE AND WORK OF LEONARDO DA VINCI

BY STEPHEN HAINES

A LASTING NAME
Leonardo was possibly the most versatile genius in the history of mankind, consistently demonstrating ideas far ahead for his time. As a painter, architect, engineer, draughtsman, botanist, and anatomist he spent most of his time researching and inventing.

CHARACTERISTICS OF HIS PAINTING

He tends to do pencil drawings of inventions.

Dark wide paint strokes

Mostly religion based paintings Linear perspective, idealistic imagery Greek and Roman classical ideals

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT HIS LIFE

He never attended public school.

He invented the scissors and hydraulic pumps.

He invented the bicycle 300 years before it appeared on the road. He never married or had children. He wrote most of his notes using mirror writing. Some believe that this was to keep his ideas secret. Unusually for the era in which he lived, Leonardo Da Vinci was a vegetarian, for humanitarian reasons. He was born out of wedlock. He only left about 30 paintings and a lot of them weren't finished.

FOUR MOST FAMOUS PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS

FOUR MOST FAMOUS PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS

FOUR MOST FAMOUS PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS

FOUR MOST FAMOUS PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS

FOUR MOST FAMOUS PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS

1ST Painting, The Vitruvian Man, created in 1487

2nd Painting, Self portrait made with red chalk, Made in 1512 to 1515
3rd Painting, Depiction of the Last Supper done by Leonardo in the late 1490s in Milan, Italy. 4th Painting, The Mona Lisa, completed circa 15031519.

FACTS
BIRTH NAME, Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

BORN, April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy near Florence

DIED, May 2, 1519 ( age 67) Amboise, France NATIONALITY, Italian FIELD, Many Diverse fields of arts and sciences

MOVEMENT, High Renaissance