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Warm-up #5. Write a paragraph about Michelangelo’s life and works. Leonardo da Vinci. A True Renaissance Man https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BfqSM84eK0. Key Terms. Guild Engineering Anatomy Perspective. A Universal Man. There was little that Leonardo did not excel at.
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Warm-up #5 • Write a paragraph about Michelangelo’s life and works.
Leonardo da Vinci A True Renaissance Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BfqSM84eK0
Key Terms • Guild • Engineering • Anatomy • Perspective
A Universal Man • There was little that Leonardo did not excel at. • He was a painter, a sculptor, an engineer, a musician, a singer, a mathematician, a physicist, a botanist, an anatomist, a cartographer, a geologist, a geographer, a poet, a town planner and an athlete.
A Universal Man • He always wanted to write a treatise on painting (like Alberti), but never did. • He seems to have not mastered Latin, the language of scholarship. • - or perhaps he was simply too busy.
Early Life • Leonardo was born in Vinci, which was a town in the Republic of Florence • He wrote of two events from his childhood. One was about a kite, the other about a cave. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrV91kOn-ao
Professional Life • At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to the artist, Verrocchio • At the age of 20 he obtained the rank of master in the guild of artists and doctors of medicine
More on his development • In 1482 Lorenzo de’ Medici sent him to Milan bearing gifts of peace • Here he painted “The Last Supper” • In 1502 he was employed by Cesare Borgia as a military architect and engineer
Old Age and Death • In 1515 da Vinci was commissioned to make a mechanical lion that would walk forward • In 1519 he passed away in France
Mona Lisa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IitbJszd1kM
The Mona Lisa (La Giaconda) • This oil on panel is his most famous work. • Begun in 1503, it was still in his possession when he died in France. • Salai sold it to the French King for 4,000 ecus, and so it now resides in the Louvre.
The Mona Lisa (La Giaconda) • The subject is Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo. • The pyramidic design is one often employed by Leonardo. • The etherial landscape reveals his characteristic sfumato and the path reinforces the tendency of the eye to follow a triangular pattern.
The Mona Lisa (La Giaconda) • The enigmatic smile is most frequently commented on. • His capture of this transient expression displays unparalleled virtuosity.
The Mona Lisa (La Giaconda) • There is a hypothesis that this is actually not a direct portrait of a Florentine woman at all – or that da Vinci has placed elements of his own image in the portrait.
The Notebooks • Leonardo kept notes on everything. • Around 5,000 pages still exist. • However, he used mirror-writing to ensure privacy while and after he wrote. • Perhaps he did so because he was left handed and found this easier. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-qFEI7rZPQ
Mirror Writing w/ Flying Machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj6kMZBrUq4
In what ways did da Vinci express his genius? • Take a minute to discuss this with your neighbor.