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12TH MARCH 1471

AN INTERVIEW WITH LEONARDO DA VINCI!
Q)What is your biggest dream? Q) What inventions did you make?
Leonardo Da Vinci is best known
A) I never stopped looking for a A) I had invented The Barrelled cannon
for his dramatic and expressive
way to allow man to fly. “One (the automatic weapon), Helical aerial
artwork, but is also famous for
who has tasted flight will walk screw (the helicopter), Anemometer,
having conducted dozens of
with his eyes lifted to the sky, Revolving bridge, Winged flying
carefully thought out
because there he has been, and machine (the airplane), Diving
experiments and created
there he would return.” These equipment, Self-propelled cart (the car),
futuristic inventions that were
words perfectly sum up my Parachute.
ground-breaking for the time. I
fascination with flight. Q) From all your inventions, what is
guess painting the most famous
your favourite one?
painting and inventing famous
Q) What is your goal? A) In my many areas of study, perhaps
inventions is enough for us to
A) I sought a universal language my favourite was the area of aviation. It
know who he is. But who is he in
in painting. Using perspective was this interest that inspired my most
DEPTH?
and my experiences with famous invention – The Flying
Q) How did you start painting?
scientific observation, I tried to Machine/The Winged Flying Machine.
A) When I was about 15, my
create faithful renditions of life. Q) What inspired you to paint the Mona
father, who enjoyed a high
Q) What is your most famous Lisa?
reputation in the Florence
painting? A) Around 1503, the painting was
community, apprenticed me to
A) Two of my works, the Mona commissioned by a rich Italian
artist Andrea Del Verrocchio. In
Lisa and The Last Supper merchant, Francesco Del Giocondo,
Verrocchio’s renowned workshop I
occupy unique positions as the who wanted to place a portrait of his
received a varied and skilful
most famous, most reproduced wife, Lisa Del Giocondo, in their new
training that included painting and
and most parodied portrait and home.
sculpture as well as the technical-
religious painting of all time. My Q) What techniques did you use?
mechanical arts.
drawing of the Vitruvian Man is A) In a break with the Florentine
Q) What was your first artwork?
also iconic tradition of outlining the painted image,
A) The Archangel Gabriel, a
I perfected the technique known as
painted glazed tile that had been
sfumato, which translated literally from
signed and dated from when I was
Italian means "vanished or evaporated."
18 years old. I drew a self portrait
Creating imperceptible transitions
of myself as an angel.
between light and shade, and sometimes
between colours, he blended everything
"without borders, in the manner of
smoke," his brush strokes so subtle as to
be invisible to the naked eye.

Leonardo Da Vinci-
Famous Artist and
The Mona Lisa- Scientist The Last Supper-Leonardo’s
Leonardo’s most famous 2nd most famous painting
painting
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