Leonardo Da Vinci was an Italian polymath, which means that he was specialised into areas including: invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science and other subjects related. Looking at his artisic side, he is recognised as one of the best painters, widely popular through his highly influencial paitings of the Renaissance such as the Last Supper or Mona Lisa, paintings which remained widely known until today.
Fascinated by his wide range of specialized fields, I began taking an interest into his art works and found some of his sketches which include mechanical drawings, to be really interesting and realistic, these actually being plans of his inventions that contributed to the modern technology we have today.
This detailed and realistic …show more content…
Before him, anatomy was mainly transmitted by text. Thanks to his precise observations when dissecting, he managed to extend existing knowledge in this field and helped to visually represent things that the human eye cannot observe very well, often enlarging certain parts and “dissecting” parts onto the paper, similar to his approach of breaking down components in his mechanical drawings. This were done from his memory, after dissections serve as visual demonstrations. He was also the first to represent parts of the body from several …show more content…
He uses different angle perspectives of the human body to show how fibers are linked to each other, often accentuating the parts that he wants to put into focus by showing more details and deeper contour, the other parts of the drawings gradually fading out. These realistic 3D depictions are meant to be figurative and show parts within the human body which else could not be seen by many people.
This enlarged figurative representation of a heart is again made to show what the eye cannot perceive, giving it a zoom-in effect. These are meant to act as diagrams, concepted for doctors mainly. Da Vinci used cross hatching (controlled movement) to suggest the outlines shades of organ, this way making it look more three dimensional.
Diagrams of both mechanical inventions and anatomy were done by Leonardo Da Vinci as a necessity, as a result of lack of technology to allow them to have more graphical ones. They were limited to the drawing and observational skills of people, but Leonardo Da Vinci, having a strong visual power, managed to de-compose and draw different things with the purpose of providing a better understanding of the world, more through drawing and less by
Fascinated by his wide range of specialized fields, I began taking an interest into his art works and found some of his sketches which include mechanical drawings, to be really interesting and realistic, these actually being plans of his inventions that contributed to the modern technology we have today.
This detailed and realistic …show more content…
Before him, anatomy was mainly transmitted by text. Thanks to his precise observations when dissecting, he managed to extend existing knowledge in this field and helped to visually represent things that the human eye cannot observe very well, often enlarging certain parts and “dissecting” parts onto the paper, similar to his approach of breaking down components in his mechanical drawings. This were done from his memory, after dissections serve as visual demonstrations. He was also the first to represent parts of the body from several …show more content…
He uses different angle perspectives of the human body to show how fibers are linked to each other, often accentuating the parts that he wants to put into focus by showing more details and deeper contour, the other parts of the drawings gradually fading out. These realistic 3D depictions are meant to be figurative and show parts within the human body which else could not be seen by many people.
This enlarged figurative representation of a heart is again made to show what the eye cannot perceive, giving it a zoom-in effect. These are meant to act as diagrams, concepted for doctors mainly. Da Vinci used cross hatching (controlled movement) to suggest the outlines shades of organ, this way making it look more three dimensional.
Diagrams of both mechanical inventions and anatomy were done by Leonardo Da Vinci as a necessity, as a result of lack of technology to allow them to have more graphical ones. They were limited to the drawing and observational skills of people, but Leonardo Da Vinci, having a strong visual power, managed to de-compose and draw different things with the purpose of providing a better understanding of the world, more through drawing and less by