HIGH RENAISSANCE: LEONARDO DA VINCI Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) Anatomist Mathematician architect Sculptor Painter Musician Inventor self portrait

leonardo believed all artists needed to study the human figure extensively. a hospital in florence gave Da vinci permission to dissect cadavers which lead to extensive research of proportion and a search for divine perfection Vitruvian Man

The last supper All lines point to christ 1492-1498 was painted on the dining room wall of the of the Santa Maria delle Grazie monastery in Milan. Shows the moment when Jesus tells the apostles that one of them will betray him soon. It was not done with the fresco technique. it shows leonardo's mastery of linear perspective All lines point to christ

The Mona lisa 1503-06 was painted of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco Giocondo in oil paint half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world".[1] FACT- the mona lisa was stole and mIA for 5 years!! She has no eyebros People visit because of the value and mystery of the dissapearance

#monaselfie? Mona lisa many accounts identify the subject as Lisa del giocondo it was completed sometime between 1505 and 1507 there are indications that da Vinci continued to work on it as he tried to achieve perfection. Has Triangular Composition Many people have owned her including Napoleon She now resides in the Louvre museum