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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci. The Renaissance Man. How to Look at Art. Subject – What the art is about Technique – The way the art was created Historic Style – Artistic characteristics specific to an era Symbolism – Using images to convey abstract meaning

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Leonardo da Vinci

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  1. Leonardo da Vinci The Renaissance Man

  2. How to Look at Art Subject – What the art is about Technique – The way the art was created Historic Style – Artistic characteristics specific to an era Symbolism – Using images to convey abstract meaning Context – Events (historical or personal) that impacted the art Personal Interpretation – What do you feel? What do you see?

  3. Artistic Terminology • Proportion • Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole • Perspective • Approximate representation, on a flat surface, of an image as it is perceived by the eye

  4. Giotto

  5. Linear Perspective Convergence Lines (also called orthagonals) – are lines that converge at the vanishing point. Vanishing Point – is the point to which all lines which are parallel to the viewer recede. Horizon line – is always at eye level regardless of where you're looking.

  6. This is the Annunciation, a painting Leonardo completed in 1472 when he was 21 years old. See if you can find the horizon line, orthogonal lines, and vanishing point.

  7. Can you find any orthagonals? The horizon line? The vanishing point?

  8. Vanishing Point Horizon Line Orthagonal Lines

  9. Da Vinci

  10. The Last Supper

  11. Perspective in “The Last Supper”

  12. The Last Supper

  13. Leonardo the Scientist Studied many disciplines Anatomy Zoology Botany Geology

  14. Leonardo the Inventor Studied optics, aerodynamics and hydrodynamics Promoted himself more as a military engineer than an artist

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