He was taught by the sculptor and painter Andrea Del Verrocchio in Florence but it wasn’t until 1478 that he became an independent master. In about 1483 he moved to Milan and start working as an engineer, sculptor, painter, and architect for the Sforza family which was the leading family of Milan. From 1495 to 1497 he produced a mural of the ‘The Last Supper’ in the refectory of the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. Young Leonardo
Young Leonardo received little formal education beyond basic reading, writing and mathematics instructor, but his artistic talents were evident from an early age. Around the age of 14, da Vinci began a lengthy apprenticeship with the noted artist Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence. He learned …show more content…
Da Vinci died on the city of Château of Cloux on May the second, 1519. Post mortem da Vinci’s paintings survive with a lot of fame that meant that he has been regarded primarily as an artist, but the pages of his notebooks that survive reveal the most eclectic and brilliant of minds. He had to write and draw on subjects including geology, and anatomy (in order to paint the human form more accurately); flight, gravity and optics, often flitting from subject to subject in a single page, and writing in left-handed mirror script (which is basically writing with his left hand but backwards so that nobody could copy his notes). Leonardo wrote in Italian using a special kind of shorthand that he invented himself. People who study his notebooks have long been puzzled by something else, however. He usually uses the mirror writing, starting at the right side of the page and moving to the left. Leonardo wrote backwards because he was hiding his scientific ideas from the Powerful Roman Catholic Church, whose teaching sometimes disagreed with what Leonardo observed. Writing left handed from left to right was messy because the ink just put down would smear as his hand moved across …show more content…
Yet is true genius was not as a scientist or an artist, but as combination of the two: an artist-engineer. Most of his paintings are based on a really deep understanding of the workings of the human body and the physics of light and shade. His science was expressed through art, and his drawings and diagrams show what he really means, and how he understood the world to work. Leonardo da Vinci was the epitome of a “Renaissance man”. Possessor of a curious mind and keen intellect, da Vinci studied the laws of science and nature, which greatly informed his work as a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, military engineer and draftsman. His ideas and body of work---- which includes “Virgin Rocks,” “The Last Supper” and “Mona Lisa”----- have influenced countless artists and made da Vinci a leading light of the Italian Renaissance. [Leonardo was also the inventor of the bicycles, parachutes, submarines, Anemometer, Flying machines, Helicopter (Aerial Screw), 33-Barreled Organ, Armored Car, Giant Crossbow, Triple Barrel Canon, Clock, Colossus, Ideal City, Robotic knight, Self-Propelled Cart, Scuba Gear, and the Revolving
Young Leonardo received little formal education beyond basic reading, writing and mathematics instructor, but his artistic talents were evident from an early age. Around the age of 14, da Vinci began a lengthy apprenticeship with the noted artist Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence. He learned …show more content…
Da Vinci died on the city of Château of Cloux on May the second, 1519. Post mortem da Vinci’s paintings survive with a lot of fame that meant that he has been regarded primarily as an artist, but the pages of his notebooks that survive reveal the most eclectic and brilliant of minds. He had to write and draw on subjects including geology, and anatomy (in order to paint the human form more accurately); flight, gravity and optics, often flitting from subject to subject in a single page, and writing in left-handed mirror script (which is basically writing with his left hand but backwards so that nobody could copy his notes). Leonardo wrote in Italian using a special kind of shorthand that he invented himself. People who study his notebooks have long been puzzled by something else, however. He usually uses the mirror writing, starting at the right side of the page and moving to the left. Leonardo wrote backwards because he was hiding his scientific ideas from the Powerful Roman Catholic Church, whose teaching sometimes disagreed with what Leonardo observed. Writing left handed from left to right was messy because the ink just put down would smear as his hand moved across …show more content…
Yet is true genius was not as a scientist or an artist, but as combination of the two: an artist-engineer. Most of his paintings are based on a really deep understanding of the workings of the human body and the physics of light and shade. His science was expressed through art, and his drawings and diagrams show what he really means, and how he understood the world to work. Leonardo da Vinci was the epitome of a “Renaissance man”. Possessor of a curious mind and keen intellect, da Vinci studied the laws of science and nature, which greatly informed his work as a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, military engineer and draftsman. His ideas and body of work---- which includes “Virgin Rocks,” “The Last Supper” and “Mona Lisa”----- have influenced countless artists and made da Vinci a leading light of the Italian Renaissance. [Leonardo was also the inventor of the bicycles, parachutes, submarines, Anemometer, Flying machines, Helicopter (Aerial Screw), 33-Barreled Organ, Armored Car, Giant Crossbow, Triple Barrel Canon, Clock, Colossus, Ideal City, Robotic knight, Self-Propelled Cart, Scuba Gear, and the Revolving