Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452 in Italy to unmarried parents and received little formal education. However, he was a prolific polymath who made significant contributions in many fields including painting, sculpture, science, engineering and invention. Some of his most famous works include the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. He was also an expert anatomist who produced detailed drawings centuries ahead of their time. While many of his inventions were impractical, some like the parachute have later been proven to work. Da Vinci's works demonstrate his brilliance and creativity.

1. Leonardo da
Vinci:
(1252-1519)
The
Renaissance
Man
By Supreet Sahu
12112061

2. Humble Beginnings
• Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born on
April 15, 1452 in the outskirts of the town
Vinci in the Republic of Florence (now
known as Italy)
• Born as an illegitimate son of a wealthy
Florentine notary, Messer Piero Fruosino di
Antonio da Vinci, and a peasant woman,
Caterina, he began his life facing hardship
and obscurity.

3. Humble Beginnings
• As a child, Leonardo received a crude
informal education in Latin, geometry and
mathematics but no formal education.
• With no privilege of a formal education, Da
Vinci launched a self-education program.
• He grew up in nature, and began to use his
keen skill of observation to learn about the
world around him and made detailed
sketches and journals of his observations.

4. Accomplishments
• Painter
• Sculptor
• Anatomist
• Engineer
• Scientist
• Inventor
• War Machines
• Cartography
• Flight
• Mathematician
• Architect
• Botanist
• Musician
• Writer
• Bridge-Building
• Philosophy

5. Leonardo as a painter
• He was also exposed to Vinci's longstanding
painting tradition, and when he was about 15
his father apprenticed him to the renowned
workshop of Andrea del Verrochio in Florence.
• Even as an apprentice, Leonardo
demonstrated his colossal talent.
• Leonardo is the creator of some of the world’s
greatest artworks.

6. The Baptism of Christ :
Artists:
Andrea del Verrocchio &
Leonardo da Vinci
Year: 1472-1475
Type: Oil on wood
Dimensions:177 cm × 151 cm
(70 in × 59 in)
Location:Uffizi, Florence

7. Mona Lisa
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Year: 1503–1506,
perhaps continuing until c. 1517
Type : Oil on poplar
Dimensions: 77 cm × 53 cm
(30 in × 21 in)
Location:
Museé du Louvre, Paris
• Widely acclaimed as "the best known,
the most visited, the most written about,
the most sung about, and the most
parodied work of art in the world.“
• Not only do the eyes “follow” you,
but also the elusive smile on her face
lends an air of mystery.

8. The Last Supper
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Year: 1494–1498
Type: tempera on gesso, pitch and
mastic
Dimensions: 460 cm × 880 cm (181 in × 346 in)
Location: Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan

9. Man in Red Chalk
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Year: 1512
Type: Red chalk on Paper
Dimensions: 33.3 cm × 21.6 cm
(13.1 in × 8.5 in)
Location: Biblioteca Reale, Turin
•Leonardo was about 60 years old
in this portrait.
•Though the authenticity of this
portrait is still under debate, The
Man in Red Chalk is still the most
iconic of his self-portraits.

10. Leonardo as an anatomist
• Leonardo was an expert anatomist and was
allowed to dissect cadavers under the
supervision of Verocchio. Verocchio stressed
that an artist must learn human anatomy
exhaustively to make perfect body shapes.
• The detail with which Leonardo da Vinci
observed, recorded, drew, documented his
medical findings set an example for
researchers and medical practitioners for
centuries to come.

11. Leonardo as an anatomist
• Leonardo's anatomical drawings include many
studies of the human skeleton and its parts, and
studies muscles and sinews.
• He studied the mechanical functions of the skeleton
and the muscular forces that are applied to it in a
manner that prefigured the modern science of
biomechanics.
• He drew the heart and vascular system, the sex
organs and other internal organs, making one of the
first scientific drawings of a fetus in uterus.
• The drawings and notation are far ahead of their
time, and if published, would undoubtedly have
made a major contribution to medical science.

12. VitruviuN Man
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Year: 1490
Type: Pen and ink with wash over
metal point on paper
Dimensions: 34.4 cm × 25.5 cm
(13.5 in × 10.0 in)
•This image demonstrates the blend
of art
and science during the Renaissance
and provides the
perfect example of Leonardo's
deep understanding of proportion.
• In addition, this picture
represents a cornerstone of
Leonardo's attempts to relate man
to nature.

13. Proportions of VitruviuN Man
1. The length of the outspread arms is equal to the height of a man
2. From the hairline to the bottom of the chin is one-tenth of the height of a man
3. From below the chin to the top of the head is one-eighth of the height of a man
4. From above the chest to the top of the head is one-sixth of the height of a man
5. From above the chest to the hairline is one-seventh of the height of a man.
6. The maximum width of the shoulders is a quarter of the height of a man.
7. From the breasts to the top of the head is a quarter of the height of a man.
8. The distance from the elbow to the tip of the hand is a quarter of the height of a
man.
9. The distance from the elbow to the armpit is one-eighth of the height of a man.
10. The length of the hand is one-tenth of the height of a man.
11. The root of the penis is at half the height of a man.
12. The foot is one-seventh of the height of a man.
13. From below the foot to below the knee is a quarter of the height of a man.
14. From below the knee to the root of the penis is a quarter of the height of a
man.

14. Anatomical Studies of the Arm
showing the Movements made
by the Biceps
Year: 1510

15. Anatomical
studies of a
human skeleton

16. Major internal
organs in the
trunk

17. The Heart

18. First ever drawings of a fetus

19. Leonardo as an Inventor/Engineer
• During his lifetime Leonardo was valued as an engineer.
• Leonardo's journals include a vast number of inventions,
both practical and impractical.
• They include musical instruments, a mechanical knight,
hydraulic pumps, reversible crank mechanisms, finned
mortar shells, and a steam cannon.
• Doing DaVinci was a popular science television program
originally aired on the Discovery Channel in which the
hosts attempted to create many of Leonardo da
Vinci's inventions. The show aired for 2 seasons (5 episodes
each) with the first episode broadcast on April 13, 2009.

20. Leonardo as an Inventor/Engineer
• Adapted drawing skills
to the more lucrative
fields of architecture,
military engineering,
canal building and
weapons design
• Based on gear
mechanism, he came up
with lots of different
ideas, including the
bicycle, a helicopter, an
“auto-mobile”, and
many military weapons.
• Leonardo was an
exceptional military and
war engineer.
Leonardo’s first concept of a
catapult

22. 33 barrel Machine Gun
•This machine consisted of
three sets of machine guns, set
on a rotating drum.
•When the first set is fired, the
force of the explosion would
pivot the guns down, bringing
the next set of guns to the top,
ready to be fired.
•The Gatling guns are made on
the same principle of high
firepower from different
barrels.

23. Leonardo’s flight machines
• For much of his life, Leonardo was obsessed by
the phenomenon of flight, producing many studies
of the flight of birds.
• He planned for several flying machines,
including a flapping ornithopter and a air screw
helicopter.
• The British television station Channel
Four commissioned a documentary Leonardo's
Dream Machines, for broadcast in 2003.
Leonardo's designs for machines such as
a parachute were interpreted, constructed and
tested.

25. World’s Smallest Ornithopter
• Though most of Leonardo’s flight machines
were impractical using the gear technology
available back then, the human kite and
pyramid parachute have been proved to work
fine.
• And using modern technology on small scale
models, engineers have made an impressive
working ornithopter.

27. Idiosyncrasies
• We all respect a scientist, but we love a mad
scientist! Leonardo was pretty much a mad
scientist owing to these habits of his.
• Leonardo was a strict vegetarian his entire life.
• Leonardo’s favorite way of spending money was
buying a lot of caged animals and freeing them.
• He hardly ever completed any task he started. In
his lifetime, he started 17 major paintings but
completed only 6 of them. And out of all the
machines he devised, he only completed the
ones required for defense purposes.

28. • Leonardo wrote in Italian
using a special kind of short
hand that he invented
himself.
• He usually used “mirror
writing,” starting at the
right side of the page and
moving to the left
• Only when he was writing
something intended for
other people did he write
in the normal direction
• The reason may have been
more a practical
expediency than for
reasons of secrecy as is
often suggested.
• Since Leonardo wrote with
his left hand, it is probable
that it was easier for him to
write from right to left. Leonardo’s signature in his books

29. Why he’s the smartest man to have lived?
• A genius, according to wikipedia.org, is a person with
great intelligence, who shows an exceptional natural
capacity of intellect, especially as shown in creative
and original work.
• Geniuses always show strong individuality and
imagination, and are not only intelligent, but unique
and innovative.
• Leonardo gained his intimate knowledge of the world
despite lacking a formal education and despite facing
seemingly insurmountable odds. His work is not only
creative and original, but revolutionary.

30. Legacy
• Doing Da Vinci
• Da Vinci’s Demons
• The Da Vinci Code

31. Thank You!!!

32. References:
•en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci
•www.italian-renaissance-art.com
•www.dailymail.co.uk
•www.art.com