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INTRODUCTION
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LEONARDO DA VINCI BIOGRAPHY
As a child he was very smart and was very quick at arithmetic and music. He
learned the lyre and had a wonderful singing voice, and quickly went to further
develop his talents with a tutor. At age 17, he went to become an apprentice of
painting under the instruction of Andrea del Verrochio, in Florence, who was an
artist, skilled craftsmen, goldsmith, sculptor and painter. He started to use his
science to enhance his paintings. He studied and sketched rock formations,
caves and fossils. He had very few close friends during his life, even though he
was very kind and sympathetic. Later, during his apprenticeship, he started to
find his niche at inventing machines like the helicopter, diving suit, and
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submarine. After he finished his education, he
stayed for a short time assisting Andrea del
Verrochio.
Toward the end of his life, in about 1508, King Louis XII of France asked him to
accompany him to Milan, and he went willingly. There, he stayed working on
anatomy and other fields until 1512, when the French lost Milan. He then had to
go to Rome. There, he stayed until his life was finished. He was very good
friends with Guiliano de’ Medici, brother of the duke, and he was well housed
and treated very kindly. Sadly, while in the bliss of the Renaissance, his health
started to fail. In March, 1516, Guiliano died, and Leonardo was left alone in the
world, practically deserted. Not far thereafter, on May 2, 1519, the mind of the
Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci died.
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WORKS
PAINTING
Despite the relative awareness and admiration that Leonardo awoke as a
scientist and inventor in recent years, his fame has rested on his creations as a
painter of several works, authenticated or attributed to him, and which have
been considered as large masterpieces of the universal heritage.
His paintings are famous. On the one hand, they have been copied and imitated
by students, and on the other they have been the center of debate and
controversy among specialists. Between the qualities, it is possible to
emphasize the innovative pictorial techniques that it used, the sense of the
composition and the subtle use of the colored vanishes, the deep knowledge of
the human and animal anatomy, the botany and the geology, the utilization that
made the light, the interest in physiognomy, the ability to reflect the way in
which humans use the register of emotions and gestural expressions. He
dominated above all the technique of the fade and the combination of shadows
and lights. All these qualities appear together in works such as La Gioconda, La
ultima cena and La virgen de las rocas.
painted between 1495 and 1498 The Last Supper is currently where it was
painted by Da Vinci: in the dining room of the church and convent of Santa
Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy.
The Last Supper is the most famous work of Christian art and has as its motive
one of the scenes of the last days of Jesus' life described in the Bible in the
Gospel of John, 13:12.
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was executed directly on a wall of the convent of Santa Maria delle
Grazie in Milan. He worked from dawn to dusk without stopping to eat,
to stop doing so for the next three or four days, which ran into the prior's lack of
understanding of the convent.It is a masterpiece in his conception and
characterization, which has received the admiration of artists of the stature of
Rubens and Rembrandt. The work has had to be constantly restored due to the
technique used by Leonardo.
Painted between 1503 and 1519, by leonado da vinci, the gioconda, considered
the most famous painting in the world, is exhibited in the Louvre Museum in
Paris (France). In it appears a woman who would be Lisa Gherardini, wife of
Francesco del Giocondo. The painting suffered a theft in 1911 and is recovered
2 years later, this increases its fame.
Pintada entre 1503 y 1519, por leonado da vinci, la gioconda, considerada la pintura más
famosa del mundo, se exhibe en el Museo del Louvre en París (Francia). En ella aparece
una mujer que sería Lisa Gherardini, esposa de Francesco del Giocondo. La pintura
sufrió un robo en 1911 y se recupera 2 años después, esto aumenta su fama.
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art are frankly insufficient, which generates more curiosity among the
admirers of the painting.
The fame of this painting is not based solely on the technique used or its
beauty, but also on the mysteries that surround it. In addition, the theft he
suffered in 1911, the reproductions made, the multiple works of art that have
been inspired by the painting and the existing parodies contribute to turning La
Gioconda into the most famous painting in the world, visited by millions of
people annually.
SCULPTURE
None of his sculptures has reached our days. The most known sculptural project of Leonardo is that of an
equestrian statue representing Francisco Sforza, father of Ludovico el Moro. It surpassed in size the other
two bronze equestrian statues of the Renaissance: Gattamelata by Donatello in Padua and
Bartolomeo Colleoni de Verrocchio in Venice. Leonardo executed the model in clay, known as the "Great
Horse". It was planned to be a bronze statue, 8 meters high, and would rise in Milan. 70 tons of metal were
prepared to mold it. The monument remained unfinished for several years, which was not unusual for
Leonardo.76 In 1495 bronze was used to make cannons for the Duke in an attempt to save Milan from the
French under the reign of Charles VIII of France in 1495 By private initiative, a statue built according to its
plans that was donated to the city of Milan, where it was erected, was built in 1999 in New York.
the "Great Horse". It was planned to be a bronze statue, 8 meters high, and would rise in
Milan. 70 tons of metal were prepared to mold but in 1495 bronze was used to make
cannons for the Duke in an attempt to save Milan from the French
el "gran caballo". Estaba planeado para ser una estatua de bronce, de 8 metros de altura, y se levantaría en
Milán. Se prepararon 70 toneladas de metal para moldear, pero en 1495 se usó bronce para hacer cañones
para el Duque en un intento por salvar a Milán de los franceses.
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OBSERVATION AND INVENTION
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scientific career by building a theory of how the four powers in the
world worked, (which he had found to be movement, weight, force and
percussion.) He was about to apply them to the greatest of all sciences, and by
far the most fascinating, the phenomenon called the human body.
To accomplish what was yearning to know about the human body, he had to
dissect about thirty corpses. He put this beside him right away and was
overcome with the beauty and wonder of what he found. His notebooks that he
used were teeming with notes that showed his admiration. Beside one of his
drawings of the heart, he wrote, “Marvelous instrument invented by the
Supreme Master”. He was very clever in finding ways to explore the body. For
instance, He used his knowledge and experience as a sculptor to help him by
injecting the organs with wax to make plaster casts. The arms and the legs also
helped him explain what he had discovered about the lever. He dissected every
muscle and tugged and pulled at it to observe how it worked. One of his favorite
muscles were the biceps, which he
found not only it bent the arm, but it
turned the palm upward! He also
proceeded made a model of the
legs made of copper wires
connected to the bones to make a
skeleton.
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medical science.
ENGINEERING
In 1502 Leonardo projected a bridge of 240 m of light that It was part of a
project of construction for the Sultan Bayezid II of Constantinople (Istanbul.).
The work is never carried out, however, in 2001,the idea was resurrected for the
construction of a bridge more small in Norway based in Leonardo's design.
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was resurrected in 2001 when a smaller bridge based on his design
was constructed in Norway.
INVENTIONS
few of his inventions were built in the author's life, since they were not possible
for his time, but they served as inspiration for future inventions
He worked tirelessly to imagine what could make us fly, some of his inventions were
the following ......, he could not make them but it served as inspiration for future
inventions
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“The wind that passes under the wing lifts it up just as a wedge lifts a
weight. The flight of cranes…which proceeds to raise themselves by
many turns after the manner of a screw…and a screw is of the nature of a
wedge”.
He used this later on a helicopter design that looked much like corkscrew. He
never did made a working model or flying machine that worked.
CONCLUSIONS
• His works are at the time of essential importance and served as inspiration for
some inventions today.
• It owns several of the most valuable paintings in the world and the most
famous painting in the world "La Gioconda".
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BIBLIOGRAPHY REFERENCES
https://www.leonardo-da-vinci.ch/biography
https://www.leonardo-da-vinci.ch/science
https://loff.it/society/efemerides/leonardo-da-vinci-hombre-renacimiento-142448/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci
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