1. Chapter 13: The Renaissance (1348 - 1600)
13.5 – Leonardo da Vinci – A “Renaissance Man”

2. Famous Paintings Leonardo was an artist, a scientist, an engineer,
and an inventor
Made him a true Renaissance Man
Famous Paintings
Most famous portraits was
the Mona Lisa (completed
in 1503)
Most famous frescoes was The
Last Supper
Fresco is a painting done in wet
plaster on a wall

3. Like all artists, he needed patrons – people supported artists by giving them money
Leonardo’s patrons:
Beatrice d’Este – wife of duke of Milan
Francis I – King of France
Leonardo’s Notebook
As a scientist, would draw things he saw in nature

4. He dissected dead bodies to study them
Helped make his paintings more life-like
As an inventor, Leonardo was far ahead of his time
Notebooks included drawings of a bicycle, a new kind of cannon, a machine gun, a submarine, a flying machine, and a parachute
Long after his death, other people made these things

5. Da Vinci Flying Machine - Notebook

6. Leonardo da Vinci was a true Renaissance man because he was a(n) ___.
One of his ___, or people who supported him, was Beatrice d’Este.
One of Leonardo’s greatest portraits is the ___.
One of Leonardo’s greatest frescoes is the ___.
As an inventor, Leonardo drew pictures of ___.