Legendary Beard Fact: Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the few artists never to leave behind a self portrait, but in every image executed by other, his magnificent flowing beard takes center stage.
Leonardo Da Vinci was the bastard son of wealthy and well-respected lawyer Messer Piero Fruosinio de Antonio da Vinci and a peasant woman named Caterina. The birth took place on April 14, 1542 inn the hill town of Vinci in the Republic of Florence. He received virtually no formal education, until he was apprenticed to artist Andrea del Verrochio, one of the region’s leading artists. As an apprentice he would have been exposed to theoretical training and a vast array of technical skills, such as drafting, mechanics, metal working and metallurgy, carpentry, plaster casting, as well as the artistic pursuits of painting, drawing, modeling, and sculpting.
By 1482 Leonardo was an accomplished musician as well as artist. Having designed and fabricated a lyre made in the shape of a horse’s head, he came to the attention of Lorenzo de’Medici, who sent him to the court of the Duke of …show more content…
He was self taught in many areas. As an engineer and designer, he was responsible for designing a flying machine, a rotating crane, an underwater breathing apparatus, and a diving bell to allow a ship to be attacked from below. He left plans for a rapidly constructed bridge made of pulleys, ropes, and wheels which was not built until centuries later. His artworks have moved generations to tears. He was a religious man who believed in God, but not necessarily the God the Church was preaching about. He was to get into some trouble by pointing out discrepancies between religious doctrine and natural law, but he never backed down. His inquisitive mind lead him not only to dissect cadavers in order to gain a greater knowledge of anatomy, but to replace the muscles in those cadavers with strings, the better to observe their
Leonardo Da Vinci was the bastard son of wealthy and well-respected lawyer Messer Piero Fruosinio de Antonio da Vinci and a peasant woman named Caterina. The birth took place on April 14, 1542 inn the hill town of Vinci in the Republic of Florence. He received virtually no formal education, until he was apprenticed to artist Andrea del Verrochio, one of the region’s leading artists. As an apprentice he would have been exposed to theoretical training and a vast array of technical skills, such as drafting, mechanics, metal working and metallurgy, carpentry, plaster casting, as well as the artistic pursuits of painting, drawing, modeling, and sculpting.
By 1482 Leonardo was an accomplished musician as well as artist. Having designed and fabricated a lyre made in the shape of a horse’s head, he came to the attention of Lorenzo de’Medici, who sent him to the court of the Duke of …show more content…
He was self taught in many areas. As an engineer and designer, he was responsible for designing a flying machine, a rotating crane, an underwater breathing apparatus, and a diving bell to allow a ship to be attacked from below. He left plans for a rapidly constructed bridge made of pulleys, ropes, and wheels which was not built until centuries later. His artworks have moved generations to tears. He was a religious man who believed in God, but not necessarily the God the Church was preaching about. He was to get into some trouble by pointing out discrepancies between religious doctrine and natural law, but he never backed down. His inquisitive mind lead him not only to dissect cadavers in order to gain a greater knowledge of anatomy, but to replace the muscles in those cadavers with strings, the better to observe their