MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE PROFILE

OF
LEONARDO DA VINCI

SUBMITTED TO:
Maam Gina Mendoza

SUBMITTED BY:
Meggie M. Payaket

SUBMITTED ON:
Oct. 7,2017
 I. BACKGROUND
Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 to May 2, 1519) was a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor,
military engineer and draftsman the epitome of a Renaissance man. With a curious mind and
keen intellect, da Vinci studied the laws of science and nature, which greatly informed his work.
His ideas and body of work have influenced countless artists and made da Vinci a leading light of
the Italian Renaissance.
Leonardo da Vinci was a leading artist and intellectual of the Italian Renaissance who's known for
his enduring works "The Last Supper" and the "Mona Lisa."
Young Leonardo received little formal education beyond basic reading, writing and mathematics
instruction, but his artistic talents were evident from an early age. Around the age of 14, da Vinci
began a lengthy apprenticeship with the noted artist Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence. He learned
a wide breadth of technical skills including metalworking, leather arts, carpentry, drawing,
painting and sculpting. His earliest known dated work a pen-and-ink drawing of a landscape in
the Arno valley was sketched in 1473.
At the age of 20, da Vinci qualified for membership as a master artist in Florences Guild of Saint
Luke and established his own workshop.

II. MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE PROFILE

A. LINGUISTIC INTELLIGENCE

Leonardo's writings are mostly in mirror-image cursive. The reason may have been more a
practical expediency than for reasons of secrecy as is often suggested. Since Leonardo wrote with
his left hand, it is probable that it was easier for him to write from right to left.

His notes and drawings display an enormous range of interests and preoccupations, some as
mundane as lists of groceries and people who owed him money and some as intriguing as designs
for wings and shoes for walking on water. These notebooksoriginally loose papers of different
types and sizes, distributed by friends after his deathhave found their way into major collections
such as the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, the Louvre, the Biblioteca Nacional de Espaa, the
Victoria and Albert Museum, the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan which holds the twelve-volume
Codex Atlanticus, and British Library in London which has put a selection from the Codex Arundel
(BL Arundel MS 263) online.

The Codex Leicester is the major scientific work of Leonardo's in private hands. Leonardo's notes
appear to have been intended for publication because many of the sheets have a form and order
that would facilitate this. In many cases a single topic, for example, the heart or the human fetus,
is covered in detail in both words and pictures on a single sheet. Why they were not published
within Leonardo's lifetime is unknown.
 B. LOGICAL-MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENCE
Leonardo had a grasp for higher mathematics but he did not know how to express it in the academic
form of numbers we recognize in mathematics today. When Leonardo learnt the language of
mathematics he preferred computing through geographical shapes to calculate equations, which
also enlisted his artistic abilities. Leonardos main pursuit in mathematics remained the exploration
of the world of proportionality and spatial mechanics. Math is only a tool to produce an outcome
but Leonardo preferred drawing as his primary tool to execute his studies of proportionality and
spatial awareness, which are used in his engineering designs. Leonardo created drawings of
geometrical shapes that had a mathematical significance in engraved plate form, which were then
to be used in printing presses. The work produced was published in 1509 call Divina Proportione.

C. SPATIAL VISUAL INTELLIGENCE

Considered as one of Leonardos highest area of intelligence. He enjoyed creating his own works
of arts in almost every field. He depicted his creations in such accuracy and proportion that most
nobles, kings and popes have commissioned him for his works. He also studied town planning and
architecture. He was given the post of architect of the King. He is the first artist to dissect the
human body and in 1472, the Guild of St. Luke, a prestigious guild of artists and doctors of
medicine, accepted Da Vinci as their master.

As an engineer, Leonardos ideas were vastly ahead of his time. He conceptualized a helicopter,
a tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator, the double hull and outlined a rudimentary theory
of plate tectonics. Relatively few of his designs were constructed or were even feasible during his
lifetime, but some of his smaller inventions such as automated bobbin winder and a machine for
testing the tensile strength of wire, entered the world of manufacturing unheralded. As a scientist,
he greatly advanced the state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy, civil engineering, optics and
hydrodynamics.
D. BODILY-KINESTHETIC INTELLIGENCE

Leonardos influence and long legacy is well preserved in various ages thanks to his kinesthetic
intelligence. His canvass of creativity was shown in different art forms such as sculpting, painting
and sketching. He was able to produce masterpieces such as "The Last Supper" and the "Mona
Lisa" among many others. This is Leonardos highest area of intelligence which works hand in
hand with his spatial visual intelligence.

E. MUSICAL

He knew how to play the flute and the lyre, which was a stringed instrument well known for its
use in Greek antiquity. And according to Historian Vasari who knew Da Vinci, said that he sang
divinely without any preparation. We even have a few manuscripts that contain some original
musical compositions that still exist today is believed that Da Vinci probably had written more
music but it was never found. There is little doubt that music played an influential role in the
development of Da Vincis mind. Though Da Vinci is most known for being an exceptional
painter, he acknowledged that music was only second to the supremacy of vision. Leonardo wrote,
Music may be called the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, the sense which
comes secondpainting excels and ranks higher than music, because it does not fade away as
soon as it is born

When Da Vinci painted, he always sought musical accompaniment to stimulate his senses. He
believed that when all his senses were awake, the mind could be better nourished and more
productive. Probably all the masterpiece paintings that we all enjoy looking at were given birth
with musical notes flying through the air.

Listening (music, sounds, and silence) was second on his list of senses, and he wrote a lot about
the importance of developing all the senses in harmony to achieve the highest levels of
consciousness. According to Da Vinci, the two were indivisible and necessary to achieve
understanding of the logic and beauty of the world. Music is a human need that cherishes beauty,
and underneath that blanket of beauty, lie the details, the precision, the logic, and the code of
organized sound.

F. NATURALISTIC INTELLIGENCE

While growing up Leonardo was fascinated by animals and insects. Throughout his long life, he
never stopped studying nature-plants, anatomy, the movement of water, the mechanics of flight
and applying his observations to his art.

Da Vinci drawing of Virgin and Child and With a Cat; expresses his fascination with the quality
of the beauty of human nature. There was also a movement that he was trying to draw the creatures
mental attitudes and to uncover their emotional interactions with each other.

G. INTERPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE
Leonardo had no noted history of establishing a family but have taken a number of teaching
classes. Da Vinci and Michelangelo were contemporaries and arch rivals. They are recorded to
have shared such a bitter relationship that they had even insulted each other in public.

H. INTRAPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE
Known to have created self portrait.

I. EXISTENTIAL INTELLIGENCE
Apart from being a Renaissance polymath, Da Vinci was also one of the alleged grandmasters of
the Priory of Sion, a secret society that was formulated for the protection of the race of Christ. He
was considered to have conceptualized ideas that were not of his time.