Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519
Quick Facts Italian Lived during the Italian Renaissance period Painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer Potentially the most diversely talented person to have ever lived and one of the greatest painters of all time Most famous painting is the Mona Lisa and the most reproduced religious painting of all time is The Last Supper
Painted in early 1500s (1503-1505/7) Created the smokey background
Painted in 1490
Da Vinci’s Concepts Flying machines A tank Solar Power Adding machine Plate tectonics
Mechanical Lion
The Vituvian Man
From da Vinci’s Notebook
Da Vinci’s Notebooks 13,000 pages of notes and drawings Studied the world around him. Today we are going to do an entry into our own notebook by studying an ordinary object Include as much detail about the object as possible Write notes about the object around it as you discover something that interests you