Leonardo Da vinci

LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519) By Alice Xu

BIOGRAPHY  Lionardo di ser Piedro da Vinci Leonardo, son of Piedro from Vinci)  Birth date & year = April 15th, 1452  Birth place = Vinci, Italy  Raised by his stepmothers  Child of a landlord & peasant girl  Divorced & moved  Raised up by his father & his stepmothers

SELF PORTRAIT

RENAISSANCE MAN  Absolute genius  Painter, architect, musician, scientist, inventor, mathematician, anatomist, etc.  Most well known as an artist  Was not considered as others since he did not have any education

BAPTISM OF CHRIST

A N D R E A D E L V E R RO C H I O ( 1 4 7 0 1475)  Renowned workshop in Florence ( age 15)  Helped his teacher to paint “Baptism of Christ” – the angel in the painting  Shocked his master Verrochio b/c he was much better than his master  1477 at age 20, he started his own workshop = qualified as an artist

MONA LISA

L A G I O C O N DA ( 1 5 0 3 - 1 5 1 9 )  Mona means “noble”  Wife of Francesco del Giocondo = landowner  He painted on and off  Technique = oil painting on a poplar wood

THE LAST SUPPER

THE LAST SUPPER (1482-1498)  Mural painting for the Duke of Milan  Jesus in the middle announced that his 12 disciples would betray him  Reactions of disciples

V I T RU V I A N M A N

FAC T ( 1 4 9 2  Medium = pen & ink on paper, circle & square  Artists were interested in topographical anatomy  Proportion of man

 Marcus Vitruvian Pollio = 1st century architect  Architecture should imitate nature in

U N D E R S TA N D I N G H U M A N BODIES  Influenced by his teacher Verrocchio  Was given permission to dissect corpses by a hospital in Italy

 Skeleton structure  organs  Created theories of how the human body functions  Impact on scientific world

S T U DY O F H O R S E S

S T U DY O F H U M A N B O D I E S

MEDIUMS  Oil paints  Pencil  Fresco = watercolor on a wet plaster wall  Sculpted marble

INVENTIONS  Glider  Helicopter  Parachute  Maps  Automobile car

GLIDER

F LY I N G M AC H I N E

TA N K

QU O T E S  [Understanding] The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.  [Intelligence] Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing

to authority is not his intelligence; he is just using his memory.  [Anatomy] The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.  [Focus] He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

BIBLIOGRAPHY  IMAGES

 http://www.leonardo-da-vincibiography.com/images/vitruvian-man-large.jpg  http://www.kingsgalleries.com/leonardo-da-vinci/  http://www.drawingsofleonardo.org/

 http://www.mos.org/leonardo/bio.html  http://library.thinkquest.org/J001159/famart.htm  http://www.leonardo-da-vinci-biography.com/vitruvianman.html  http://voices.yahoo.com/leonardo-da-vinci-study-humananatomy-151429.html