How Did Leonardo Da Vinci Treated Geometrically

Leonardo Da Vinci was fascinated and interested in shadow projection in relation to painting. He questioned the inherent intricacies of light and optics. He married the complexities of reflection with the complexities of visual perception. His observations of optics and astronomy complicated his understanding of light. Leonardo had shown that astronomy and optics are connected. Da Vinci’s influence and studies covered across different streams of the renaissance era, from art, into science, into architecture, to other studies. An evolutionary man of his time.

Questions Leonardo Da Vinci, led him to observe, to research, to studies. Here are some of the questions, “If shadows have indefinite edges how can they be treated geometrically? What makes the outlines of the shadow vague and confused? Whether it is possible …show more content…
For example, his art piece, “The Last Supper,” was made on his study of light and optics. There was a one point perspective, and everything is structured around Jesus Christ. The concept, “one-point linear perspective” reflects in this art piece and is defined when lines recede to one point on a drawing.

Leon Battista Alberti was the first to make a statement of the principles of perspective and also of the importance of relief, during the Renaissance. He failed to describe shadow projection, he does say that it’s worth examining. Alberti makes a reference to a definition of different types of light, classical allusion, and the practical way of drawing a circle. Alberti and other philosophers of his time influenced and paved the way for others, like Leonardo Da Vinci.

Astronomy, math, art, and many of what makes the world advancing as it is today, is based upon, the curiosity and scientific minds of the classics and the renaissance. Our fascination and interest could be evolutionary, just like Leonardo Da Vinci, who made observations and had