Leonardo Da Vinci2
Leonardo da Vinci is probably the most famous complex artist of the Renaissance and perhaps all time. But what many people don't know is that he wasn't just a genius in art he also excelled in sculpting, architecture and he was also an inventor. Leonardo was born in a small stone house on April 15, 1452. Leonardo started off interesting from the way he was conceived to what happened to his grave after he died. He was born an illegitimate child in the small town of Vinci. We don't know much of anything about his mother accept her name was Caterina and in town history she was known to be a barmaid. On the other hand we know much about his father. His fathers name was Piero da Vinci, he was in his mid twenties when Leonardo was born and he worked as a lawyer in the small town of Vinci and later moved to Florence where he became a very accomplished lawyer. Piero was a man who seemed to have bad luck because he had four wives and three of them died. He wasn't the nicest guy either because he wasn't going to take Leonardo in until he found out his new 16 year old wife was barren and then he did because he wanted a child. While
In Vasari's biography you can tell that he had much respect for Leonardo he pictures him as a happy young man that was a singer, flute player, and could converse for hours. His next painting was the Ginvevra which is the Italian term for a juniper tree the painting is actually of a women its the type of painting a women would have done before her wedding but you can tell that Leonardo was not found of the women by the sad look on her face and the name of the painting. But this painting never even got past the stage of underpainting. But when you see Leonardo's paintings you can always tell that they are his by the lack of contour his paintings don't just flow together he has more color transitions flowing together instead of the shapes flowing. Leonardo was doing all this work in his late 20's but by the time he was 30 Leonardo packed up and move to Milan when he moved to Milan he started experimenting with inventions with music he made a horn called a lute, which is made from a horses skull and he mad a drum that you pulled along and it would stay on rhythm with the beat of an automatic hammer. Some of his thinking doesn't make a whole lot of since such as in this painting the wing of the angel is pointed at John instead of at Jesus. Leonardo was growing up his father noticed his artistic talent and at the age of 15 his father took him to Florence to an art studio where he worked under Giorgio Vasari. And he worked under him for 17 years nothing really noticeable ever happened except for his painting of the "Last Supper". 30) This drawing is drawn with pen with quick motions which brings life into the drawing in this drawing he already seems to master of light and depth of atmosphere. com/leonardoBibliography The World of Leonardo Time-Life 1966www. Some people don't believe that these Madonna paintings are actually Leonardo's because he doesn't carry over with his line raising but on the other hand people say that they are for sure his since the shading strokes go from top left to bottom right which is obviously of a left-hander which Leonardo was and there were no other painters that were as good as him and left-handed so they must be his. Vasari wrote much about Leonardo after his death. Sforza regime crumbled so Leonardo moved and went back to Florence and painted there for a while until he was summoned back to Milan by Louis XII but he had no specific tasks. This was intended to be an altarpiece for a monastery in San Donato whose monks where clients of Leonardo's father. So Sforza commissioned it to him and he worked on it off and on for 16 years.
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