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Leonardo Da Vinci. by 7 th and 8 th grade writing classes. About Da Vinici.
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Leonardo Da Vinci by 7th and 8th grade writing classes
About Da Vinici • Leonardo was born in Vinci Italy on April 15, 1452. He was an illegitimate child of A man named Ser Piero and a peasant girl named Caternia. His father took custody shortly after he was born. His parents married other people and Leonardo ended up having 17 half brothers and sisters.
Early Life As he was growing up, Leonardo was in his father's house; there he was exposed to scholars' books. He spent his early life reading to his heart's desire. At age 15, Leonardo became interested in painting, and also began sketching pictures of wildlife and plants. His father saw his sketches and became aware that art was his talent.
Willing for more challenges, Leonardo spoke to the Duke of Milan. He stayed in Milan for seventeen years. He was put to work by the Duke, building anything from churches to weapons. The Duke also made him invent machines and homes. During that time, Leonardo sketched nature and wildlife. However, Da Vinci developed a bad habit of not having "stick-to-it-ness" which meant he did not complete some of his projects. Therefore, he left dozens of paintings undone.
Employment • Leonardo was always doing paintings for the Duke of Milan during the time that he worked there. He would always design the things that were in the court. The duke also had Leonardo designing weapons and machinery that could be useful. One of the weapons he designed was the tank. Leonardo would have so many ideas that he would start something new before he finished what he was currently working on. Because of this lack of finishing, he only completed six new inventions in 17 years. Also during those 17 years, he spent a lot of his time studying science. He would go out, and look at nature to see the different scientific things he could find. He also recorded many other studies such as painting, architecture, the elements of mechanics, and the human anatomy.
$$$ Leonardo had to look for a new patron since the French and Sforza's fallfrom power. Because of this fall, Leonardo was forced to leave. He worked and traveled through Italy for many years. He was also the military engineer for Borgia's army. During that time as well, he designed bridges. Leonardo also painted a portrait of the battle of Anghari. Leonardo later started working on the Mona Lisa. A year after that, he found out that his father died. Leonardo's half brothers and sisters made sure that Leonardo didn't get any of his father's inheritance. But when his uncle died, Leonardo made sure he got what was coming to him. Leonardo had a workshop in Rome from 1513 to 1516. During that time, he worked more on his human anatomy studies. The Pope unfortunately didn't allow him to dissect cadavers. In 1515, King Francis offered Leonard a job to be a painter, engineer and architect. Leonardo accepted this offer.
Art and Studies Leonardo painted and sculpted, and designed court festivals. He also designed weapons, buildings and machinery. Next, he began studying nature, flying machines, geometry, mechanics, municipal construction, canals and architecture. He spent most of his time studying science. Almost all of his paintings are now displayed in museums.
His Famous Painting One of Leonardo's greatest paintings ever is Mona Lisa. This painting is magnificent and Leonardo is most famous for this painting. He began painting the Mona Lisa in Italy, but then stopped painting for about three years. Finally, Leonardo moved to France and resumed painting. He finished the painting shortly before he died in 1519.
Talents of Da Vinci Leonardo had a lot of life talents such as painting, sculpting, and construction. Leonardo's teacher taught him a lot of things. Some stuff he taught Leonardo about was nature, flying machines, geometry, mechanics, municipal construction, canals, and architecture. However, he could not set his mind to something to finish. It was as if he started something, and got another brilliant idea that may have been even better. It was almost as if he had one idea that he started, but then once the other idea came to his mind, he had to follow that one and make it better. He only completed six of his master pieces, including The Last Supper.
More of Da Vinci's Work • After his teacher died, Da Vinci had to find a new professor to teach him about all the great stuff life had to offer. He designed a bridge in Constantinople, and was also offered a chance to paint the "Battle of Anghiari," with help from Machiavelli. In 1503, he began to work on the "Mona Lisa." This is yet another one of his great and valuable works of art. On July 9, 1504, his father died and Leonardo got to take over his father's place. Then his uncle died, and Da Vinci got to keep all of his uncle's land and money. Leonardo was very rich.
Leonardo's Studies The Duke of Milan made sure Leonardo Da Vinci was busy by painting , sculpting, and designing elaborate court festivals. But Da Vinci also produced studies on loads of subjects like nature, flying machines, geometry, mechanics, municipal construction, canals, and architecture (designing everything from churches to fortresses), tanks, and other vehicles, various combat devices, and submarines. Also during this period, Da Vinci produced his first anatomical studies. His Milan workshop was a hive of activity, buzzing with apprentices and students.
Da Vinci Continued Sadly, Da Vinci's interests were so wide, and he was so often interested in new subjects, that he usually was unsuccessful in finishing what he had started. This lack of "stick-to-it-ness" resulted in his finishing only about six works in seventeen years, including "The Last Supper," and "The Virgin on the Rocks." He left dozens of paintings and projects incomplete or unrealized.
Last Supper Leonardo used symbolism in the Last Supper.It was based off the Last Supper from The Bible, when Jesus said that someone in the room has betrayed him.
Symbolism • Symbolism is a form of art in which symbols are used to represent ideas. Leonardo used it in many paintings. Religious symbols are commonly used in Da Vinci's art. The symbols are supposed to represent something and have deep meaning. He used symbolism to create a scene, to represent religious meaning. Also, he was hired to do that.
Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo was an Italian inventor, musician, artist, etc. He was famous and is said to be one of the best painters of all time.
Now the bear is small. That could mean he is out in the distance. • Yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/Da Vinci.html • mathinscience.info/public/Leonardo/ Leonardo_ for_ web.htm
Leonardo used apparent size in "The Last Supper" because people are smaller. It looks like someone was in the distance, taking a picture. Leonardo must have used it to show the size of a certain thing in the picture. He did it by painting something smaller to show it was in the distance, and larger to show it was close.
Leonardo Da Vinci was an artist/inventor who used techniques in his paintings such as apparent size. Leonardo Da Vinci showed it to make an object in a picture seem bigger. If the object was supposed to be close in the picture, he made it small by making it appear as if it was farther away. Leonardo Da Vinci used apparent size when he showed how close an object was by making it bigger, and making it smaller if he was showing it was in the distance.
Aerial Perspective As you see here in the Mona Lisa, the background colors of the landscape affect the color of the dress. Again in the Last Supper, we see how Da Vinci includes the whole room, including the three windows in the back of the room, letting in light. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_perspective
Aerial Perspective • Leonardo Da Vinci was a famous artist and was one of the masters of the Aerial Perspective technique. He used the technique in two of his most famous pictures, The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Aerial Perspective was invented in the 15th century, in the Netherlands. It was made to show the contrast of the colors onto the object. It is accomplished by drawing in the background behind the main picture so the artist could mix the colors with the picture.
Pictures Mona Lisa painting by DaVinci Close up of Mona Lisa painting by DaVinci
Da Vinci and Realism • Leonardo Da Vinci made the painting Mona Lisa and it clearly showed realism in it by using soft, light colors and nature in the background. Da Vinci painted his Mona Lisa from 1503 to 1507. He painted the Mona Lisa in Florence, Italy.The Mona Lisa displays realism because it shows everything that would exist in a photograph. Da Vinci's painting impacted how people paint. His painting felt like you could see into the "soul" of the paintings. Da Vinci used realism in many paintings. In the Mona Lisa, he brings her to life with nature in the background, and using soft light colors. • http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/davinci.html
Realism • The style of art in which the artist strives to make the painted scene look as real and natural as possible. Renaissance artists such as Leonardo became highly skilled at creating realism in their paintings.
Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci was a great, inspirational artist. He made three dimensional paintings like The Last Supper. The time he made these paintings was around the 1490s in Italy, where he was born and raised. Three dimensional paintings or drawings are very exciting and fun because they make the whole thing more realistic, and you understand the subject better. Three dimension gives pictures height, width, and depth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci exhibited a horizon line in the 1490's and 1500's in the drawing "Landscape of the Arno Valley." He did this to study his art work. He did it by drawing and shading in the lines Landscape of the Arno Valley
The Last Supper was one of Leonardo's most famous paintings that used linear perspective. http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/ExploringLinearPerspective.html
Linear perspective This painting was an example of linear perspective and how it was commonly used. This was one of Leonardo's paintings when he used linear perspective and it includes all the math that was included in it.
Linear Perspective • Linear perspective was used by Leonardo Da Vinci in the early 1400's. It was started to be used in Florence, Italy. Linear perspective tricked the eyes, making more space and distance seem to appear, all on a single flat canvas or piece of paper. It was made to look like that because of a mathematical system. The reason that so many people used linear perspective was because it created an illusion, allowing the eyes to just jump right into the painting.
Example: • You can see Sfumato in this painting, by looking at all the blurred edges and sections. The blurring was done with Sfumato. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sfumato http://www.artchive.com/artchive/L/leonardo/monalisa.jpg.html
Sfumato (sfoo-mah-toe) Sfumato is a technique that translates from Italian to "smoky". To do this technique, artists put thin layers of paint over their paintings to blur them. This technique was used mostly during the Renaissance time, and usually took place in Italy. This is a technique that Leonardo DaVinci used often, and was quite skilled at it. He used this in paintings such as The Virgin of The Rocks and The Mona Lisa, which is exhibited.
Chiaroscuro (kee-ar-uh- SKYOOR-o) • Chiaroscuro is a style of shading that dominates tones (brightness) more than color. Leonardo Davinci was the first artist to use this method of painting. When using this method, he painted broader, and more spoken colors, with light and dark paints. So rather than focusing on the colors, he focused on the brightness. What one might see as black or white is really brightness, or the light in the painting. Leonardo said this about his painting technique: “I would remind you O Painter! To dress your figures in the lightest colors you can, since, if you put them in dark colors, they will be in too slight relief and inconspicuous from a distance. And this is because the shadows of all objects are dark. And if you make a dress dark there is little variety between the lights and shadows, while in light colors there will be greater variety.” http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/vinci.html
Sfumato Sfumato, from the Italian word, sfumare, means "to tone down" or "to evaporate like smoke." It refers to a painting style which was invented by Leonardo da Vinci. Sfumato paintings can be recognized by the blending of colors and tones which are so subtle, the transition between shape and shadow cannot be perceived. The most famous example of this method of painting is da Vinci's, "Mona Lisa." Which is a famous painting created by Leonardo da Vinci.
The two great sculptural projects to which Leonardo devoted himself stood under an unlucky star; neither the huge, bronze equestrian statue for Francesco Sforza, on which he worked until 1494, the monument for Marshal Trivulzio, on which he was busy in the years 1506-11, were brought to completion. Leonardo kept a detailed diary about his work on the Sforza horse; it came to light with the rediscovery of the Madrid MS. 8936. Text and drawings both show Leonardo's wide experience in the technique of bronze casting but at the same time reveal the almost utopian nature of the project. He wanted to cast the horse in a single piece, but the gigantic dimensions of the steed presented technical problems. Indeed, Leonardo remained uncertain of the problem's solution to the very end.
Casting An object at or near finished shape obtained by solidification of a substance in a mold. Pouring molten metal into a mold to produce an object of desired shape. The Statue of Francesco Sforza would have been Leonardo's only major work of sculpture. Unfortunately Leonardo did not hold this form of art in very high regard and wrote in his notebooks that working with stone was a, "wholly mechanical exercise." However, this statue of a horse he made was different. Not only would it be cast in bronze, but Leonardo loved horses, and once he started work, drew huge numbers of sketches on the subject.
