Leonardo da vince

LEONARDO DA VINCI
Leoandro was born on April 15, 1452. He has been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man". He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and an universal genius. He was an architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, geometer, scientist, mathematician, musician, and painter.
Among his principal invents we can mention: the helicopter,a tank, the use of concentrated solar power, the calculator, a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics, and many others; and he introduced the use of napkins.
Leonardo is famous (feimes) for his realistic paintings, such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, as well as for influential drawings such as the Vitruvian Man.
He was left-handed and used mirror writing throughout his life. No one knowsthe true reason why Leonardo used mirror writing, probably
• He was trying to make it harder for people to read his notes and steal his ideas.
• Leonardo chose to write in reverse because it prevented smudging (smaying).
Only when he had to send a formal letter he wrote them in a normal way.

Personal life

Leonardo kept his private life particularly secret. There is no evidence thatLeonardo was ever intimately involved with any woman, nor in a close friendship with one. He never got married and hadn’t descendence. He surrounded himself with handsome young men throughout his life. It has, therefore, been assumed that he was a homosexual. Because of this, he suffered persecution and was at the point of confronting the inquisition (inqüisition). His protectors tried always toprotect him to a public hearing, which in many cases ended in burning the guilty person.
One of his loves may have been Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno. He was always introduced as Leonardo's "pupil", but he never produced any work of artistic merit. Melzi, another friend, however, became his pupil and life companion (companion).
Disregarding the controversy of homosexuality, it is clear from theworks of Leonardo and his early biographers, that he was a man of high integrity and very sensitive to moral issues.

The Vitruvian Man

Leonardo started to discover the anatomy of the human body at the time he was apprentice to Andrea del Verrocchio, as his teacher insisted that all his pupils learn anatomy. As he became successful as an artist, he was given permission to dissect (daisect) humancorpses at a hospital in Florence. Around the year 1490, he produced a study called the Vitruvian Man. It is one of his most well-known works.
The Last Supper (1495 – 1498)
Leonardo’s Last Supper is an ideal (aidial) pictorial representation of the most important event in the Christian doctrine of salvation – the institution of the Eucharist (Eucarist).
He painted The Last Supper on the backwall of the dining hall at the Dominican Convent of Santa Maria Delle Grazie in Italy. The painting took him four years to complete, from 1495 to 1498.
The source used by Leonardo is John 13:21 and is supposed to represent the exact moment when Jesus announces to his disciples (disaipols) that one of them would betray (bitrey) him. Thus the reactions of all the disciples are the reactions tohearing that one of them is a traitor (trairor) to Jesus who would cause the death of their teacher. Each reacts in a different way.
Leonardo drew the apostols in groups of three. Judas is in the group to Jesus’immediate right. He is in shadow, and is also reaching for a piece of bread just as Jesus is saying to Thomas and James (seated (seret) to Jesus’left) that the betrayer (betreyer) would take apiece of bread from Jesus.

The Mona Lisa (1503 – 1506)

Most evidence suggests that he began work on the Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda) in 1503 and continued to work on it until 1506, working sporadically (spor-ad-ikly) on it well after that.
The title “Mona Lisa” stems (stems) from Giorgio Vasari biography of Leonardo. In it, he identified the model as Lisa de Gherardini del...