...Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, (Old Style) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination".[1] He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.[2] According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote".[1] Marco Rosci states that while there is much speculation about Leonardo, his vision of the world is essentially logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unusual for his time.[3] Leonardo’s Contributions Leonardo da Vinci was famous for his designs, art, cartography, geology, and studies. Leonardo's designs later helped us to invent things like the tank, parachute, helicopter and many other things. He was also a very talented artist. Most of his pictures and paintings are in art galleries and museums. One of his most known paintings is the Mona Lisa. He made many maps of many different places. He was also interested...
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...Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, "at the third hour of the night" in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, in the lower valley of the Arno River in the territory of Florence. He was the illegitimate son of Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a Florentine notary, and Caterina, a peasant who may have been a slave from the Middle East. Leonardo had no surname in the modern sense, "da Vinci" simply meaning "of Vinci": his full birth name was "Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci", meaning "Leonardo, son of (Mes) ser Piero from Vinci." Little is known about Leonardo's early life. He spent his first five years in the hamlet of Anchiano, and then lived in the household of his father, grandparents and uncle, Francesco, in the small town of Vinci. His father had married a sixteen-year-old girl named Albiera, who loved Leonardo but died young. In later life, Leonardo only recorded two childhood incidents. One, which he regarded as an omen, was when a kite dropped from the sky and hovered over his cradle, its tail feathers brushing his face. The second occurred while exploring in the mountains. He discovered a cave and was both terrified that some great monster might lurk there, and driven by curiosity to find out what was inside. Leonard's early life has been the subject of historical conjecture. Vasari, the 16th century biographer of Renaissance painters tells of how a local peasant requested that Ser Piero ask his talented son to paint a picture on...
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...“ Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci” Writer, Mathematician, Inventor, Artist (1452–1519) Born on April 15, 1452, in Vinci, Italy, Leonardo da Vinci was concerned with the laws of science and nature, which greatly informed his work as a painter, sculptor, inventor and draftsmen. His ideas and body of work—which includes "Virgin of the Rocks," "The Last Supper," "Leda and the Swan" and "Mona Lisa"—have influenced countless artists and made da Vinci a leading light of the Italian Renaissance.Born out of wedlock, the love child of a respected notary and a young peasant woman, he was raised by his father, Ser Piero, and his stepmothers. At the age of 14, da Vinci began apprenticing with the artist Verrocchio. For six years, he learned a wide breadth of technical skills, including metalworking, leather arts, carpentry, drawing and sculpting. By the age of 20, he had qualified as a master artist in the Guild of Saint Luke and established his own workshop.Florentine court records show that da Vinci was charged with and acquitted of sodomy at the age of 22, and for two years, his whereabouts went entirely undocumented. The Last Supper (Italian: Il Cenacolo or L'Ultima Cena) is a late 15th-century fresco painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. It is one of the world's most famous paintings, and one of the most studied, scrutinized, and satirized.[1]The work is presumed to have been commenced around 1495 and was commissioned...
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...Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born on April 15th, 1452 and was said to be 1. “One of the most brilliant men on earth”. Da Vinci was born in Vinci, Italy as a love child to a landowner and a peasant woman. Leonardo was raised by his father, Ser Piero, who home schooled him. He began working for an artist by the name of “Verrocchio” at 14 years old. Da Vinci worked for Verrocchio for only 6 years and had already mastered art, leather arts, metal working, and pottery. Da Vinci began acquiring jobs from very wealthy people at such a young age, which eventually lead to the painting “Mona Lisa.” By 20 years of age, Da Vinci was already a master artist in the Guild of Saint Luke. Due to his accomplishments he was able to establish his own workshop. Even though he may have been considered a genius by some, he wasn’t perfect. Florentine records prove that Da Vinci was charged with sodomy at the age of 22 that possibly involved one of his male models. After Leonardo was charged it was said that 1. “Two years, his whereabouts went entirely undocumented.” It is assumed that he wanted to avoid further exposure. In 1482 a man by the name of “Lorenzo de Medici” who was from a very wealthy Italian family asked Leonardo to craft a silver lyre for “Ludovico il Moro”, who was at the time, the Duke of Dilman, as a sign of peace. Da Vinci followed through with the plan and then wrote a letter to Ludovico telling him of Da Vinci’s engineering and artistic talents could help with his court...
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...| Leonardo Da Vinci | Renaissance Man | | Jenny Bevier | 8/20/2010 | | Very few that have ever lived have been acknowledged as a genius. Leonardo Da Vinci was a renaissance man who was a true pioneer of his time. Though he is best known as an artist, he was far more than that. Leonardo was also an engineer, inventor, and scientist. He had one of the best scientific minds of his time. He carried out research in fields ranging from architecture and civil engineering to astronomy, anatomy, geography, geology, and paleontology. Leonardo was a renaissance man whose works of art and studies of mechanics and science paved the way for many artists, engineers, and doctors today. Da Vinci was born in 1452 in the small town of Anchiano, Italy. He was an illegitimate child of a Florentine Notary, Piero Da Vinci, and a peasant woman named Catrina (The World Wide Art Gallery, 2010, para. 2). Until the age of five Leonardo lived in the Hamlet of Anchiano with his mother. From 1457 on he lived with his father, grandparents, and uncle Fracesco in the small town of Vinci, Italy. Da Vinci never received a formal education. However, he was informally taught Latin, geometry, and mathematics by his stepmother Alberia, and her mother in law Monna Lucia. Also, he learned from scholarly textbooks that were owned by various family members. When Leonardo was fifteen, he was apprenticed to the artist Andrea Di Cione, known as Verrocchio. During this time is when Leonardo was...
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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci Born on April 15, 1452, in Vinci, Italy, Leonardo da Vinci was the epitome of a “Renaissance man.” Possessor of a curious mind and keen intellect, da Vinci studied the laws of science and nature, which greatly informed his work as a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, military engineer and draftsman. His ideas and body of work—which includes "Virgin of the Rocks," "The Last Supper" and "Mona Lisa"—have influenced countless artists and made da Vinci a leading light of the Italian Renaissance. Leonardo was, and is, renowned primarily as a painter. Among his works, the Mona Lisa is the most famous and most parodied portrait and The Last Supper the most reproduced religious painting of all time, with their fame approached only by Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam. Leonardo died at Clos Lucé, France, on May 2, 1519. François I had become a close friend. Vasari records that the King held Leonardo's head in his arms as he died, although this story, beloved by the French and portrayed in romantic paintings by Ingres, Ménageot and other French artists, may be legend rather than fact. Da Vinci has been called a genius and the archetypal Renaissance man. His talents inarguably extended far beyond his artistic works. Like many leaders of Renaissance humanism, he did not see a divide between science and art. STYLE OF PAINTING da Vinci’s Painting Technique Throughout his years (1452-1519), Leonardo da Vinci employed a variety of techniques...
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...Leonardo da Vinci, also called the Universal Man is known for being a great painter, sculptor, scientist and engineer. One of his most known works is the "Mona Lisa", which gained a lot of popularity. Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy. He grew up in a Farmhouse which happened to be right outside of a village in present-day Italy called Anchiano. While growing up, Leonardo Da Vinci did not have any education beyond the topics of basic reading, writing and mathematics. At the age 14, Da Vinci had an evident talent for art, so his father got him an apprenticeship with an artist named Andrea del Verrochio where he taught him and his other apprentices leather arts, carpentry, drawing, painting and sculpting. Around the age of 20, da Vinci got certified as a master artist in Florence’s Guild of Saint Luke and he established his own workshop where he taught his apprentices. Da Vinci still collaborated with his teacher, Andrea del Verrochio, with completing paintings. People believe that Verrochio finished one of Da Vinci’s paintings called “Baptism of Christ” with the help of his student. It is also said that Verrochio was so humbled by his student’s talent, that he never picked up a paintbrush ever again. In 1482, Leonardo da Vinci left Florence to become a court artist for the Duke of...
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...LUCIA TAJOLI CURRICULUM VITAE (MAY 2009) Personal information: Born in Padova (Italy) on 1st July 1964 Italian citizen Addresses: Home: Via Trieste 22, 24045 Fara Gera d’Adda (BG) Italy. Ph. +39 0363 399221 Work: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale - Politecnico di Milano Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy Ph. + 39 02 2399 2752, Fax +39 02 2399 2710, e-mail: lucia.tajoli@polimi.it Academic positions: • Associate Professor of Economics at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) since November 2001. • Visiting professor at the Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan (USA) in 2003 and 2007. • Assistant Professor of Economics at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) from May 1996 to October 2001. • Lecturer at Università Bocconi from November 1993 to April 1996. Other current positions: Senior research fellow at the Istituto di Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI), Milano, Italy. Consultant to the Italian National Institute for Foreign Trade (ICE), Roma, Italy. Affiliate researcher at KiTES - Università Bocconi, Milano, Italy. Education: Ph.D. in Economics, Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), 1994. Certificate of Advanced Studies in International Economic Policy Research, Institute of World Economics (Kiel, Germany), 1991. Bachelor Degree in Economics at Bocconi University (Milan,Italy), 1988. Research interests and recent research projects’ topics: International trade networks; Patterns of international specialization; Economic integration between countries; European...
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...Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance painter who was considered as a man of “unquenchable curiosity.” Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy (which is outside of Florence, Italy). Da Vinci was the son of Ser Piero and a peasant girl, Caterina. Leonardo’s father took custody of him a short time after his birth. His mother married someone else then moved. Eventually, they kept having children, but not with each other. Later on, Leonardo had seventeen half brothers and sisters. Growing up in his father’s home in Vinci, Leonardo had access to many scholarly texts. He was exposed to Italy’s rich painting community. When he was fifteen, his father sent him to a workshop in Florence. He demonstrated his amazing talent there. One of Leonardo’s first big breaks was to paint an angel in Verrocchio’s “Baptism of Christ.” Leonardo was so much better than Verrocchio that he decided to never paint again. He stayed at this workshop until 1477. In 1482, he entered the service of Duke of Milan while leaving Florence. He spent seventeen years in Milan, leaving after Duke Sforza’s fall from power in 1499. During this time, Leonardo reached different height of artistic achievements. The Duke kept Leonardo busy painting and sculpting and designing court festivals, but at the same time he had to work on designing weapons and machinery. From 1485 to 1490, Leonardo began to study on a large variety of subjects. Some of them were nature...
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...Discussing the two artists Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, they were both known as the Renaissance men. I will be covering the time period of the Italian Renaissance. Following after with the bibliography of Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti, and comparing the two artist’s paintings. However asking the question how can two artists that live in the same time period, have the same culture, but have so different styles of painting. The Italian Renaissance started in the 13th and 14th Century, leading into the High Renaissance, Renaissance in the North, and the late Renaissance in Italy. In Italy the society after the Middle Ages was powerful city states, extensive trade, and banking had developed. Education was a priority; in Italy the first University for Greek Studies was established. Most Scholars referred to themselves as humanists, not only did they believe education should teach the early Christian hood, but also liberal arts, grammar, poetry, history, politics, and philosophy. Renaissance humanists believed strongly in knowledge, they felt that God created mankind to pursue knowledge and strive to their full potential. Thus, this leads into artists creating visual elements of art to teach education. The main patron of artwork was The Church, wealthy independents, and merchant-princes. The Church paid the finest artists to paint stories of Bible references, because most people in this time period were illiterate. Examples...
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...Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Italian pronunciation: [leoˈnardo da ˈvintʃi] pronunciation (help·info)) (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, Old Style) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination".[1] He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.[2] According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote".[1] Marco Rosci states that while there is much speculation about Leonardo, his vision of the world is essentially logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unusual for his time.[3] Born out of wedlock to a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, at Vinci in the region of Florence, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter, Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan. He later worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice, and he spent his last years in France at the...
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...of Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci, considered one of the greatest artist and brightest minds of all time. It is because of him that we live the life that we have today. It is because of him that great minds have been able to achieve so much. It still amazes people what he managed to put on paper because who would have ever thought what he thought having primitive technology. Leonardo da Vinci was born at 10:30 PM on Saturday, April 15th, 1452. He was born in the small Tuscan town of Vinci,which is near Florence. Although, in another reference, it said that he was probably born in a farm house in Anchiano, which is about three miles away from Vinci. The family of Leonardo lived in this area since the 13th century.When Leonardo was born, Ser Piero, his father, was a twenty-five year old public notary. Also, when Leonardo was born, Ser Piero married his wife. He didn't marry Catarina, his mother, because she was probably the daughter of a farmer. Leonardo was christened from the parson Peiro da Bartolomeo, in the Baptismal Chapel. He was baptized to the name Lionardo, not Leonardo. The chapel is inside the church of Vinci. According to a tax record, when Leonardo was five years old, he was living with his grandparents. Francesco, his uncle, probably taught him about nature through the wild countryside that surrounds Vinci. When Francesco died, about fifty years later, he gave his estate to Leonardo, which showed a sense of fondness to Leonard. Leonardo lived...
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...Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Italian pronunciation: [leoˈnardo da vˈvintʃi] About this sound pronunciation (help·info); April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, Old Style) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination".[1] He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.[2] According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote".[1] Marco Rosci states that while there is much speculation about Leonardo, his vision of the world is essentially logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unusual for his time.[3] Born out of wedlock to a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, in Vinci in the region of Florence, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter, Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan. He later worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice, and he spent his last years...
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...Duccio Di Bouninsegna’s painting represents an image of the Madonna Enthroned Between Two Angels displays a symbolic illustration of Jesus, unlike the portrait of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci it demonstrates “...well-defined landscapes, natural folds in drapery, and three- dimensional figures.” The new style shows the movement away from the Churches ideas and the appeal of the Renaissance “...the new artistic styles would echo the broader movements and interests of the new age.” This exhibits that humanism developed and revealed the intelligence of the individual. Therefore, people’s perspective changed from fixating on the Churches ideas to concentrating on broader movements and a growing interest in...
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...about the comparing and contrasting of Michelangelo’s The Pieta and Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and how the two works from the High Renaissance. In this paper I will be describing the elements of composition for each artist’s work and explaining what was unique about the artistic choices made by da Vinci and Michelangelo that led them to their continuing popularity. I will also be describing what I believe to be the ideas or values present in their work and what philosophies and interests of the artist’s led to each creating this work and creating it in the manner in which they did. Michelangelo was actually born as Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni on March 6th, 1475 in Caprese, Italy. The Pieta was made in (1498-1499) out of marble and was the work of art sculpture that was sculpted by the prominent artist named Michelangelo Buonarroti, and it is housed in St. Peter Basilica in Vatican City. The statue was custom-built for a French cardinal named Jean de Billheres, who was an evocative in Rome. The statue was made for the French cardinal’s funeral monument. Leonardo da Vinci was actually born as Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci on April 15th, 1452 in Vinci, Florence (known as Italy in present day). Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist, sculpture, writer, and a painter amongst many other things. Leonardo has been described as one of the best painters of all time. Although he is a renowned painter, Leonardo was also an inventor. Leonardo’s work also known as the Mona Lisa...
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