Leonardo de Vinci did great work regarding the use of light, colors, and shadows in his paintings. His work in of it as itself is incredible and world renowned, but it is the math and science that he utilized to create such masterpieces that really stands out. In his journals, de Vinci included diagrams that showed his thought process for creating shadows in his paintings (272). He worked greatly with shadows and the effect that they had on different colors and hues. Many believe that de Vinci was familiar with “…Aristotle’s observations on the atmosphere and the physics of colors…to the phenomenon of colored shadows” (273). Leonardo de Vinci was curious about how he could make his paintings more realistic and including shadows was his answer.
