1. Leonardo Da vinci ( )
By Alice Xu

2. Biography
Lionardo di ser Piedro da Vinci Leonardo, son of Piedro from Vinci)
Birth date & year = April 15th, 1452
Birth place = Vinci, Italy
Raised by his stepmothers
Child of a landlord & peasant girl
Divorced & moved
Raised up by his father & his stepmothers

3. Self portrait

4. Renaissance man Absolute genius
Painter, architect, musician, scientist, inventor, mathematician, anatomist, etc.
Most well known as an artist
Was not considered as others since he did not have any education

5. Baptism of Christ

6. Andrea del verrochio (1470-1475)
Renowned workshop in Florence ( age 15)
Helped his teacher to paint “Baptism of Christ” – the angel in the painting
Shocked his master Verrochio b/c he was much better than his master
1477 at age 20, he started his own workshop = qualified as an artist

7. Mona Lisa

8. La Gioconda (1503-1519) Mona means “noble”
Wife of Francesco del Giocondo = landowner
He painted on and off
Technique = oil painting on a poplar wood

9. The Last Supper

10. The last supper (1482-1498) Mural painting for the Duke of Milan
Jesus in the middle announced that his 12 disciples would betray him
Reactions of disciples

11. Vitruvian man

12. Fact (1492- Medium = pen & ink on paper, circle & square
Artists were interested in topographical anatomy
Proportion of man
Marcus Vitruvian Pollio = 1st century architect
Architecture should imitate nature in

13. Understanding human bodies
Influenced by his teacher Verrocchio
Was given permission to dissect corpses by a hospital in Italy
Skeleton structure  organs
Created theories of how the human body functions
Impact on scientific world

14. Study of horses

15. Study of human bodies

16. Mediums Oil paints Pencil Fresco = watercolor on a wet plaster wall
Sculpted marble

17. inventions
Glider
Helicopter
Parachute
Maps
Automobile car

18. Glider

19. Flying machine

20. tank

21. Quotes
[Understanding] The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
[Intelligence] Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
[Anatomy] The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
[Focus] He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

22. Bibliography
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