LEONARDO DE VINCI AND HIS WORKS
BY CHRIS MULLEN
Leonardo Da vinci
Life
Spent most of his years in Florence and milan taking jobs from from someone as high as the duke to a simple man or women wanting a portrait done.
Leonardo was Home schooled and had a large intrest in many thing but what he mainly Took notice in studying Euclid, science, and painting. Leonardo made his living mostly off of his artistic skill and his more then capable ability in inventing new things for military.
Life Style
Art
- Leonardo was also an Inventor he invented new war machines for the duke like a flying bomber or a tank, or just for simple solutions in your every day life.
Patrons
- Cesare Borgia
- Giuliano De Medici
- The Duke
- Isabella D'este had leonardo paint the portrait the "noble women"
Paintings
- Leonardo had a vast education in many jobs but painting is his most known career
- Mona Lisa
- The last supper
- Vitruvian Man
- Lady with an Ermine
- Self-Portriat in red chalk
Mona Lisa
Located in the Du Louvre museum
This piece is Significant because the quality and style behind it is unlike most in its time this piece resembles a perfect human down to every detail he used unknown techniques at the time to perfect the multiple details in the painting.
In my opinion this piece takes the person for who they really are not making them look like a good, but rather like the common person at the time wearing normal clothes. The colors used match the person in the picture making it more realistic, the detail in the picture goes right down to the stitching on her clothing and the hair strings on her head.
This piece represents humanism from its vast resemblement of the average human at the time looking like a normal person and not doing something godly or being fed by birds or in the clouds but in a normal land skype in a normal pose.
This piece is most interesting to me cause i’ve heard much about it but never really searched or anything so when i searched it online i was surprised at how detailed it in every aspect of humans at the time and also very impressed with how the colors matched the mood of the women to make it come more alive.
Citations
http://historylists.org/art/list-of-5-most-famous-artworks-by-leonardo-da-vinci.html
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Polelle, Mark Robert. "The DNA of Mona Lisa: Background." World History: The Modern Era. ABC-CLIO, 2013. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.