Leonardo’s LegacyLeonardo’s Legacy© 2004 Paula MacDonald. All rights reserved.

VISIT

VINCI Leonardo's Hometown

Vinci is a small town placed at the foot of "Monte Albano" in the most wonderful place on earth, the Tuscany in Italy.

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1452 (April 15) Leonardo born in Vinci.1453 Ottoman Turks capture Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire; end of the Hundred Years’ War between England and France.1469 Leonardo moves to Florence, where Lorenzo “The Magnificent” de Medici becomes ruler.1474 The first book is printed in English. 1482 Leonardo publishes detailed sketches of the human body 1483 Leonardo joins the Sforza court in Milan and paints “Virgin of the Rocks.”

Leo’s Renaissance Timeline

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Leo’s Renaissance Timeline(continued)

1485 Henry VII defeats Richard III, ending the War of the Roses and establishing the Tudor dynasty in England.

1492 Columbus discovers the New World; Spain pushes Moors out of Europe after 800 years and expels Jews.

1496 Syphilis starts spreading throughout Europe.1497 Leonardo paints “The Last Supper”; Vasco da Gama sails

around the Cape of Good Hope and to India.1500 Leonardo returns to Florence; first Caesarian section

performed.1502 The first watch is made.1503 Leonardo paints “The Mona Lisa.”

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Leo’s Renaissance Timeline(continued)

1506 Leonardo returns to Milan and begins compiling the Codex Leicester.

1508 Michelangelo begins painting ceiling of Sistine Chapel.1509 Europe launches African slave trade with the New World 1512 Copernicus writes that the Earth circles the sun.1516 Leonardo moves to Amboise in France. 1517 Martin Luther nails his theses to church door, launching

the Protestant Reformation; coffee introduced in Europe. 1519 (May 2) Leonardo dies in Amboise; Magellan launches

first round-the-world voyage; Cortés conquers Mexico.

The Scientist

Wing Studies

Self-Portrait, c. 1513

Weapons Engineer

Crossbow Machine

Giant CrossbowMachine Gun

Magnificent Machines

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Water Lifting Device

Gears

Leonardo's Programmable Automaton

By Mark Elling RosheimDrawing, Leonardo da VinciCodex Atlanticusf. 812 r [296 v-a]

A Reconstruction

Helicopter

Bicycle

Transportation

Anatomy Studies

Skeleton

The Artist

Virgin & Child with St. Anne & John the BaptistNational Gallery, London.

Human Figure

Study for the Head of Leda, c. 1505-7

Study of Arms and Hands, c. 1474

Proportions of Man, Academy, Venice.

Chart of relation between square

and circle

Progression of squares

Module 8

= 22/7

Charts of the Vitruvian Man

Virgin of the Rocks, Musée du Louvre, Paris

Portrait of Cecilia Gallarani (Lady with an Ermine), c. 1485Czartoryski Museum at Cracow

Paintings

Perspective Studies

Perspective Study for "Adoration of the Magi“Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

Caesar’s Commission

Leonardo Takes Notes. . .The Codex LeicesterThe Codex Leicester

One of his many notebooks

Based on Giorgio Vasari’s 17th century biography of Leonardo da Vinci, many historians believe the painting is a portrait of Madam Lisa Giocondo, the wife of a wealthy Florentine. Vasari gave the

painting the name Mona Lisa.

Mona Lisa

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At the Louvre, tourists crowd around Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece

hustling to capture an image of the museum's eternal superstar.

WHY?The pose itself broke tradition - previously, portraits were invariably full length. Leonardo introduced the waist-up, hands-folded-on-lap approach, which allowed for a much more intimate treatment. The pose was imitated immediately and became fashionable for portraiture by such painters as Raphael.

The background is painted in a gradation of lights and colors, losing details in the distance, instead of the traditional approach in which foreground and background are equally distinct.

Mona herself is rendered with extraordinary vividness - one has a sense of viewing the living woman. (The effortless realism of photography has perhaps diminished our capacity to appreciate this.)

Leonardo displayed in this work a mastery of technique that was unknown at the time, profoundly impressed his contemporaries, and has seldom been equaled since.

The Mona Lisa revolutionized painting.

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Mona Quote“She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times and learned the secrets of the grave.”

Walter Pater - Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873)

Artist: Marcel DuchampTitle: L. H. O. O. Q. Date: 1919Pencil on reproductionOriginal Size: 7 ¾” x 4 1/8”

The Many Faces of Mona Lisa

Avid Animal Lover

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Leonardo’s Tomb

The Last Supper, c. 1497

Statue of Leonardo da Vinci“The Knowledge Giver”

By Seth Vandable.

His Legacy Lives on. . .

500 Years Later. . .

Resources

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