How Did Leonardo Da Vinci Change The World

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The painting is also famous because it was the first to exhibit the use of one-point perspective which changed the history of art forever. It was also uncommon to see a portrait of a half body and someone showing their hands, Leonardo da Vinci also change that for the future generations. Leonardo da Vinci’s rationalism, subjectivism and objectives I think were in the right place by giving a chance to a woman to be sited and be painted as an equal in front of him. At a time when a married woman could not be in front of a man who was not her husband because it was considered improper. He did not care that a woman poses for him as long as he was painting it. He believed that he had to show all the beauty of what he painted. His subjective point

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