LEONARDO DA

VINCI

Yarova Victoria
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Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452, in a
small town called Vinci, located near Florence.
Leonardo da Vinci was a skilled Italian painter, a
talented sculptor and architect, a clever engineer
and technician, a gifted scientist and botanist, a
promising anatomist and mathematician, a brilliant
philosopher and musician. He was one of the
smartest and most talented people of the
Renaissance. His father, Piero da Vinci, was a
notable and wealthy notary who continued the
work of four generations of his ancestors.
At a very young age, he learned to read
and write, and studied Latin and
mathematics. Already as a child, he
amazes others with his handwriting. The
inventor wrote with his left hand and
very small letters, and also from right to
left. But this is not enough - he turned all
the letters in the mirror image. He spoke
riddles, was riddled with metaphorical
prophecies, loved to lay down puzzles.
Leonardo did not sign his works, but they
do have badges. For example, if you look
at the pictures, you can find a symbolic
flying bird. And there were many such
signs ...
 PROFESSIONAL LIFE
 In January 1478, Leonardo received an independent
commission to paint an altarpiece for the Chapel of St.
Bernard in the Palazzo Vecchio, an indication of his
independence from Verrocchio's studio. One anonymous
writer claims that in 1480, Leonardo was living with the
Medici and often worked in the garden of the Piazza San
Marco, Florence, where a Neoplatonic academy of artists,
poets and philosophers organized by the Medici met. In
March 1481, he received a commission from the monks of
San Donato in Scopeto for The Adoration of the Magi.
Neither of these initial commissions were completed, being
abandoned when Leonardo went to offer his services to Duke
of Milan Ludovico Sforza. In 1482, he casted a silver
stringed instrument from a horse's skull and ram horns to
bring to Sforza, whom he wrote a letter describing the
diverse things that he could achieve in the fields of
engineering and weapon design, and mentioning that he (Leonardo's horse in silverpoint, c. 1488)

could paint.
 PERSONAL LIFE
 Leonardo had many friends, there were students. As for
the love affair, there is no credible information about it,
since Leonardo carefully hid this side of his life. He was
not married, there is no reliable information about
novels with women. Its orientation has been a topic of
heated debate since the mid-sixteenth century to the
present. Sigmund Freud investigated the matter. The
artist is likely to have had relationships with his
students Salai and Francesco Melzi. Court records in
1476 indicate that 24-year-old Leonardo and three other
young men were accused of sodomy with a prostitute
well known at the time. The charges were dropped in the
absence of evidence. According to some versions,
Leonardo had an affair with Chechilia Gallerani, the
favorite of Lodovico Moreau, from whom he painted his
famous painting, "The ladies with ermine."

(Study for a portrait of Isabella d'Este (1500), Louvre)

 OLD AGE AND DEATH

 Leonardo was present at the 19 December meeting of Francis I and

Leo X, which took place in Bologna. In 1516, Leonardo entered
Francis' service, being given the use of the manor house Clos Lucé.
Being frequently visited by Francis, he drew plans for an immense
castle town the king intended to erect at Romorantin, and made a
mechanical lion, which during a pageant walked toward the king
and—upon being struck by a wand—opened its chest to reveal a
cluster of lilies. Leonardo died at Clos Lucé on 2 May 1519 at the
age of 67, possibly of a stroke. Francis I had become a close friend.
Vasari describes Leonardo as lamenting on his deathbed, full of
repentance, that "he had offended against God and men by failing to
practice his art as he should have done."
VITRUVIAN MAN (1490-1492)

The Vitruvian Man is a drawing made by Leonardo

da Vinci in about 1490-92 as an illustration for a
book on the works of Vitruvius. The picture is
accompanied by explanatory inscriptions, in one of
his magazines. It depicts a figure of a naked man
in two superimposed positions on each other: with
arms outstretched, describing a circle and a square.
 INVENTIONS

Leonardo was indeed an "inventor", that is, an engineer, and apparently those who called him the greatest
engineer of all who knew history were right. But the depth of his thinking pushed him to move from pure
technology to generalizations, from direct applications that are characteristic of technology of all time, to
applications that are distant, characteristic of science. Historians of the technique have hundreds of
inventions of Leonardo scattered on his notebooks in the form of drawings, sometimes with short
expressive remarks, but often without a single word of explanation, as if the rapid flight of imagination
inventor did not allow him to dwell on verbal explanations. Often the drawings are repeated, the already
described adaptations are modified and refined, and sometimes this happens after many years, which
indicates a serious attitude of the designer, not the changing whims of the artist.
Air propeller (helicopter) and Tank
Diving suit
THE LAST SUPPER (1494-1498)
"Last Supper" - a fresco created by Da Vinci for the Dominican Monastery of Santa Maria
delle Grazier, Milan. The mural depicts a biblical scene last night spent by Jesus of
Nazareth surrounded by his twelve disciples. In this mural, Da Vinci tried to embody all
his knowledge of the laws of perspective. The hall where Jesus and the apostles sit is written
with extreme precision in terms of proportions and distances of objects. The background of
the room, however, can be seen so clearly that it is almost a second picture, not just a
background. Naturally, the center of the whole work is Christ himself, with regard to his
figure is planned and all the other composition of the fresco. All the work is enclosed in a
rigorous rectangular frame, which is limited by the walls and ceiling of the room, the table
at which the participants have a secret dinner. If for the sake of clarity to draw lines on
those points that are directly related to the perspective of the fresco, a near-perfect geometric
grid, the "filaments" of which are constructed at right angles to each other, will be
obtained. There is no such limited accuracy in any of Leonardo's work .
 My favorite writer is Dan Brown. And I
was thrilled when my favorite writer was
describing paintings by my favorite artist.
The book "The Da Vinci Code" has a
fascinating storyline that is engraved in the
Louvre, namely near the painting "Mona
Lisa". Then, with another "Madonna in the
Grotto" picture, the heroes find the key to
the holy grail. There are many fascinating
stories throughout the book, including
stories about “The Last Supper"
 First, Taddei explains the inconsistency of Brown's theory: “Before Leonardo da Vinci there were
hundreds of“ Last Supper, ”and when he wrote his own, he had to adhere to several rules. They
dictated who should be in what position and with what expression so that the audience could
recognize the apostles. ” So, St. Peter was always portrayed with a knife, Judas can be recognized
by a purse with silver, and St. John is traditionally young and feminine. 9
 the expert does not deny that in the scene of Christ’s last meal with the disciples, there is a secret
message from da Vinci. But it all depends on which key to choose to interpret the image.
 In each of the previous versions of The Last Supper, Jesus and his disciples are depicted with halo,
that is, elevated to the rank of saints. But da Vinci is not one of them is decorated with such a
halo.
 Of course, it is the viewer's choice whether to pay attention to the fact that da Vinci depicted 13
figures without halo. But Taddei believes that this omission was made intentionally and it
indicates that the artist made an important statement five centuries ago.
Thank you for attention !!!