Leonardo da vinci

Editor's Notes

1. Hello everyone, this presentation is about Leonardo da Vinci, who is a very interesting person of the high Renaissance.
2. Leonardo da Vinci was considered as one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. He was born on the 15th April, 1452 in the Tuscan town of Vinci, in the lower valley of the Arno River in the territory of the Medici-ruled Republic of Florence. In his early life, Leonardo received an informal educational in Latin, geometry and mathematics. In 1466, at the age of fourteen, Leonardo was apprenticed to the artist Andrea di Cione, known as Verrocchio, whose workshop was one of the finest in Florence. Other famous painters apprenticed or associated with the workshop include Domenico Ghirlandaio, Perugino, Botticelli, and Lorenzo di Credi. Much of the painted production of Verocchio’s workshop was done by his employees. According to Vasari, Leonardo collaborated with Verrocchio on his The Baptism of Christ, painting the young angel holding Jesus’ rope in a manner that was so far superior to his master’s that Verrocchio put down his brush and never painted again. On close examination, the painting reveals much that has been painted or touched up over the tempera using the new technique of oil paint, with the landscape, the rocks that can be seen through the brown mountain stream and much of the figure of Jesus bearing witness to the hand of Leonardo. By 1472, at the age of twenty, Leonardo qualified as a master in the Gulid of St. Luke, the guild of artists and doctors of medicine.  
3. Leonardo da Vinci had many professions in his life. His most famous professions were painting, sculpting, and being an architect. But he also was a musician, scientist, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer whose genius.
4.  Renaissance humanism recognized no mutually exclusive polarities between the sciences and the arts, and Leonardo's studies in science and engineering are as impressive and innovative as his artistic work. These studieswererecorded in 13,000 pagesofnotes and drawings, whichfuseart and natural philosophy (the forerunner of modern science), made and maintained daily throughout Leonardo's life and travels, as he made continual observations of the world around him. His mostfamousobservations are the Vitruvian, the studyof the foetus in the womb, the Rhombicuboctahedron, the studyof the arm and the design for a flyingmachine.