I chose to do my research project on Leonardo Da Vinci. 1. Leonard Da Vinci was one of the greatest artists ever born and has done countless pieces of art. 2. With all the pieces of art he started he finished very few of them. 3. Obviously Leonardo Da Vinci had multiple sources of inspiration. Some of his sources of inspiration were medieval art and roman art. 5. Since leonardo was fascinated with birds of prey I think that that would be a source of inspiration for him. 4. Attracting attention for being such a young artist with an outstanding amount of skill, he was also apprenticed by an older artist named Andrea Del Verrocchio. Andrea probably inspired leonardo to do certain pieces of art that he otherwise wouldn't have done. 6. Leonardo
mastered many things. He mastered an extraordinary amount of things in his life, he mastered a number of things at a young age. He spent 6 years perfecting his technician skills, which included leather arts, metal working, carpentry, drawing, and sculpting. When he was 20 he became a member of the Guild of Saint Luke. The Guild of Saint Luke was a guild full of artists. Leonardo Da Vinci, being smart and artistic individual never married. His father married 4 times but never married his mother, because of that it could have tainted Leonardo’s opinion on the importance of marriage. Leonardo being a famous artist probably had woman diving and chasing towards him, still never found anyone to marry. It is rumored however, that Leonardo had relations with his assistant. There is also the theory that since Leonardo never married, he could have been gay. In my research i have learned a lot of things about Leonardo Da Vinci. I found some things interesting like how he never married but i also found some things disappointing like the fact that there was no proof that Leonardo Da Vinci ever made any of his inventions. I found it interesting that Leonardo did not finish most of his work, i thought that one of the best artists ever born would have enough patience to finish a painting. I have learned a lot about Leonardo Da Vinci and most of my assumptions about him have either been confirmed or corrected.
Leonardo da Vinci was a famous painter, sculptor, and inventor that lived from 1452-1519. He was born in a small Italian town of Vinci and lived on a small estate that his father owned. Leonardo kept the name of the town that he was born in for his last name. Since his mother did not marry his father, he could not inherit his father’s land, nor did he have much going for him as a wealthy businessman. When people think of Leonardo da Vinci, they mostly associate him with art and paintings, such as his famous Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Leonardo believed that art was correlated to science and nature. Da Vinci was largely self-educated and he filled endless notebooks with examinations and suppositions about pursuits from aeronautics to anatomy.
Leonardo da Vinci was a man of art, science and innovation during the Renaissance Era. Although many of Leonardo’s paintings were unfinished or lost, we could see his influence in perspective, light and shadows, and primary colors in his paintings. To paint more realistic paintings, he first learned as an apprentice to Andrea del Verrocchio, a leading Florentine painter and sculptor. After 6 years he became an independent master and developed his own style of painting.
Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist, inventor, architect, and a mathematician as well as an artist that lived during the Italian Renaissance. Da Vinci's countless contributions to fields of art, technology, science, and math enabled him to have the label as a true Renaissance man.
One of his creations was the flying machine. He loved the idea of people soaring like birds and wanted to make that dream a reality. The designs of the flying machine is clearly inspired by the wings of animals that could fly. Leonardo da Vinci’s flying machine has a wingspan of over 33 feet. The frame of the machine was made out of pine that was covered in silk. A sleek and light design that also proved to be sturdy. The way the machine worked is the pilot would lie face down on the board and he would have pedal a crank that was connected to a rod-and-pulley system. There was also a hand crank that was available. This was used for additional energy and the steering was done with a head piece. The pilot was to work the crank with both his hands and feet at the same time. Doing so would cause the wings to flap. A unique feature was the wings were designed to twist when they flapped. This design was an inspiration from nature. Besides his flying machine, he also conceived the idea for a parachute. Although credit for the first parachute doesn't formally go to Leonardo da Vinci he did create the design for it a couple hundred years before it was actually invented. He made a sketch of the idea but he never actually built and tested it for himself. Many of his inventions were never truly built and tested. Leonardo wasn’t only engrossed with the sky,
Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the greatest minds of his time. Most will remember him for his many masterpieces including The Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and The Vitruvian Man. But he did more than just draw works of art; he was also an inventor and a mathematician who studied a large variety of subjects. Leonardo’s life is more fascinating than any one man could imagine. He may be dead, but his work still lives on.
"Arguably one of the most inspired creators in the history of art and, with Leonardo da Vinci, the most potent force in the Italian High Renaissance. As a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, he exerted a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent Western art in general."
My artist is Leonardo da Vinci. He was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy. The famous artist died on May 2, 1519 in Amboise, France. While he was alive he was a part of the Renaissance style of art. I decided to pick da Vinci because I don’t know that much about art history but the name Leonardo da Vinci stands out to everyone so I figured it would be interesting to learn about one of the most influential artists in history.
To conclude my story. Leonardo was great artist because of his courage to get the artwork done like the big horse, and the mona lisa all his famous artwork. He has taught us many things like if you ever think you can't do something just remember one thing you can always get it done if you put your mind to
Michelangelo’s inspiration for art was sculpting models because that is all he wanted to do was sculpting and nothing else. He had no interest in the family business, so his father let him be an apprentice at age 13 with the Florentine painter’s workshop and that is when Michelangelo was exposed to the technique of fresco. He had spent a year at the workshop and that is when something extraordinary happened to him. His motive was to become the best sculptor in the whole world because that is all he wanted to since he was 13 years old. All the combined influences laid him the groundwork’s for what style he wanted to do. He was also inspired by his own masters to become an artist with his own style of art.
Leonardo Da Vinci could be argued as one of the most famous persons in the Renaissance Era and one of the greatest painters to ever live. Leonardo is talented and has made many contribution throught his life. He did so many things such as painting, anatomy , mechanics, and architecture. And he is one of the reasons why the Renaissance era could be regarded at one of the greatest time periods in history.
Leonardo have influenced countless, many different artists to do what they do now. Leonardo da Vinci is a major deal to the Italian Renaissance. His achievements further him to a leading spot and to be figure/ model in the Italian Renaissance. Leonardo da Vinci may be most famous for his artworks as an artist, but he also spent time working on his inventions in science and technology as well. Why do I find Leonardo da Vinci so fascinating is not just because of his artworks and invention he created, it was his personality reminds me of
It is said that the academics of Leonardo’s time did not take into consideration his work in any other field than painting, because he did not have a formal education. Instead he had developed an important attitude at a young age towards his critics, where he wrote “I cannot quote from eminent authors as they can, these trumpeters and reciters of the works of others. I know that all knowledge is vain and full of error when it is not born of experience, and so experience will be my mistress”. Leonardo da Vinci was a mysterious man who most definitely left his impact on the world, his time and modern time. A lot of people say Leonardo was a genius others say he was a complete mastermind who was ahead of his time, one thing for sure is that he was very talented.
William Wickenden comments were to the fact that the first engineers were self though, geniuses in nature and useful skill in technical aspects. Take for example the Hero of Alexandria, who took theories and put them into practice. Archimedes of Syracuse had excellent problem-solving skills. Leonardo Divinci had mastered many talents such as metalworking, carpentry, drawing, and sculpting. Even without any formal education, they were able to learn creations such as the Romans aqueducts and others. Their success came from the ability to problem-solving, observations, trial and error, and a hands-on in creating processes to build infrastructures for that era. These early engineer professionals used the application of science and mathematics,
Leonardo da Vinci is one of the most well-known geniuses in human history. This man masters knowledge of all kind: painting, architecture, music, geology, philosophy, biology, math, physics, chemistry, etc. His probably most famous painting, Mona Lisa, fascinated millions of people around the world and the amazing and mysterious details in the painting attracted a number of scientists and scholars to devote their whole career in studying them. Born and lived in Italian Renaissance age, which is a period of time when arts flourished and knowledge was valued, Leonardo was surrounded by many great contemporary artists and a perfect creative environment. These favorable factors supported him to fully exercise his talents.
Leonardo Da Vinci is a famed artist today due to his renowned painting of the ‘Mona Lisa’. In the 14th century, people of Venice would have known him as an engineer, people of Milan would have known him for his Last Supper, but only the people of Florence would have seen his whole character. Da Vinci is known as the archetypal Renaissance man, a man of “unquenchable curiosity” and “feverishly inventive imagination”. Da Vinci created many technologies and new innovations which were so advanced for his time and age that many scholars did not believe him. He contributed to civilisation through three main areas: art, science and engineering.