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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci, actually Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, philosopher, musician, writer, the discoverer, the mathematician, engineer, anatomist, inventor, and a geologist. Born and raised near the town of Vinci, being the illegitimate son of Ser Piero notary da Vinci and the peasant woman Caterina. For the purposes of today do not have names, members of "da Vinci" is because "the city of Vinci". His full surname, given to him at birth, is "Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci," or "Leonardo, son of Ser Piero of Vinci, the town". Vitruvian Man - a study of human body proportions Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the " Renaissance man "whose seemingly inexhaustible curiosity matched only the force of his creativity. It was conferred a talent for painting Leonardo greatest popularity. Two of his works, the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and top the lists of the most famous, often imitated and mentioned portraits and paintings. Also of great importance in the history of art has a sketch of Leonardo's Vitruvian Man. In Poland, is also known for the work of Lady with an Ermine, due to the fact that the only work of the artist, which is in Polish collections (Kemp, 2004).

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Leonardo da Vinci believed that a more complete knowledge of the world and nature, it will be fuller and better art. Science and art have sought in his mind for one purpose - to know and reproduce reality. He was interested not only in the visual side of this reality, but the underlying causes, patterns and mechanisms of the phenomena. His artistic work can not be separated from research, from scientific intellectualism. Leonardo da Vinci, then the existing mastered all the arts, but his art was chosen and beloved paintings. He regarded them as the most perfect discipline, the hardest and most powerful cognition. His legacy, however, paint a thin - has left little images, and those that exist, not all can be conclusively deemed to be authentic. However, his work complete drawings, of which there are over a thousand, scattered in various collections. In addition to 15 paintings by Leonardo da Vinci to have survived 7000 pages of his notebooks with drawings, sketches and scientific writings. Your notes Leonardo da Vinci drew up a letter in proof. Perhaps he did because he wanted to keep secret, but it is more likely due to left-handedness was an artist - because the writing in this way does not blur the ink.

The painting of Leonardo da Vinci used the technique of summate, which it defined as follows: "Try to treat gently with the characters, rather than focusing on the shape of a dry turning them ... Note how light and shadow are not linked to the line, but by what looked like a cloud of smoke. " Picture of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa or La Gioconda is not only the most famous example of ...