LEONARDO DA VINCI
THE GREAT MAN
Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest men throughout history. His full name is Leonardo Di Serpio Da Vinci. He was born in Vinci a province of Florence Italy
Leonardo is mostly famous for his paintings but his expertise poly math, anatomy, geology and botany. He was a great musician, writer, mathematician, cartographer and scientist. He was a writer as well as a sculptor architect.
Most of his paintings are acclaimed worldwide. MONA LISA is no doubt the most famous painting on the face of earth at the moment , they call it LA GIOCONDA in French which means the laughing one. It is considered that the fame of Mona lisa is because of her mysterious smile, people see the painting and love to judge her smile. The Mona lisa is painted in sfumato style of painting which means to vanish or to hide in to shade. In sfumato style a veil of smoke is created between the subject of painting and the viewer adding some brightness to black areas and hiding some bright areas. Leonardo was master of sfumato style. Painting of Mona lisa is a mere thirty one inches by twenty one inches, smaller even then the posters of her sold worldwide. It is present in Louvre museum Paris
THE LAST SUPPER is another master piece of Leonardo. It is a fresco on the wall of Santa Maria Delle grazie in Milan
THE VIRTUVIAN MAN is most celebrated sketch of the world. It is also work of Leonardo. He created this master piece in 1487.it is printed everywhere from T shirts to pads of mouse. It consist of a perfect circle and square simultaneously in which is inscribed a nude man stretching his arms and legs. The drawing and text are sometimes called the canon of proportions or some times proportions of man. It is stored in gallrie dell`academia in Venice Italy
Leonardo`s studies in science is as innovative and impressive as his work in art. He recorded all his experiments in notebooks of about 13000 pages which fuse art and naturalphilosophy(the forerunner of modern sciences).these journals contain some mundane as well as intriguing information. He noted lists of groceries as well as designs for wings and shoes for walking on water. There are compositions of paintings, studies and details of Dropa , studies of faces and emotions, architect designs. He maintained these notebooks while travelling through out his life. These journals are mostly written in mirror-image cursive. His friends distributed many papers from his work of different shapes and sizes between themselves, these papers later found there way to major libraries and museums in the world. Codex Leicester is the only major work of Leonardo in private hands owned by Billgates, displayed only once in a year in many cities of the world.
Leonardo was a high class renaissance, outstandingly beautiful and was vegetarian. He used to buy caged birds and released them. He was accused for sodomy along with three other young men in 1476. He had no close relationship with women except Isabella d`estate. He made her portrait which is now lost. He is the best painter throughout history only Michelangelo is considered as his rival. According to Helen gardener an art historian `` his mind and personality seems to us super human and the man himself mysterious and remote``. Where as Marco rosi says `` there is much speculation about Leonardo, his vision of the world is essentially logical rather then mysterious and the empirical methods he employed were unusual for his time``.
Whether he was logical or mysterious we don`t know we just admire this genius and his beautiful paintings of which many are now lost forever.
Many have a trade of delusions and false miracles deceiving
the stupid multitude.
LEONARDO DI VINCI
