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Draft 2 Sergio Sancak The Renaissance as a period in history is described as “the spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe. Beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.” The word Renaissance means the rebirth of learning. Leonardo da Vinci was often described as a Renaissance man in Renaissance times. This means that during his life, he was a “multitasker.” His passions were anatomy, mathematics, aero dynamics and many other areas of knowledge not just painting and sculptor. Although he is best known for his paintings of the Mona Lisa (1503-1505) and the Last Supper (1495 to 1498). Leonardo da Vinci was born in the year 1452 in the beginning of the renaissance period, in Italy in a small town of Vinci near Florence. As a child he lived on his family’s farm. He was able to explore his surrounding and was really interested to find out how things work. He bought birds in cages in the market place and set them free. Not because he did not like seeing birds in captivity but because he wanted to learn how birds fly. At the age of 15 he was apprenticed to Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence. At this time Florence was the centre of humanist to both theoretical training and a vast range of technical skill including drafting chemistry metallurgy, metal working, plaster casting, leather working, mechanics and carpentry as well as the artistic skill of drawing and painting sculpting and modelling. All these things were to be of great help to Leonardo in the future. This workshop was one of the finest in Florence. He was specially inspired by his teacher’s sculptures. By 1472 Leonardo became master of the painter’s guild. A few years later he painted such a beautiful angel that his master Verrocchio is said to given up paint for good. In 1482 Leonardo left Florence to enter the house of duke of Milan. There he painted court portraits, designed costumes, built machines of war, and even installed a central heating in the palace. In the Palace he also sang and lyre to entertain the duke and his court. Between 1482 and 1499 he worked in Milan. From 1500 to 1506 was his second period in Florence. 1506-1513 he returned to Milan. From September 1513 Leonardo spent much of his time living in the Belvedere in the Vatican in Rome. During this time the famous painters Raphael and Michealanegelo were both working there. The last three years of his life from 1516 to 1519 were spent between Rome and France where he worked for Francis the great. Leonardo died at Clos Luce on May 2, 1519 From Leonardo’s notebooks we can tell that he approached both science and art in the same methodical way. First he studied a problem, than he made many sketches to make him find a solution. There was no difference for Leonardo between painting and designing a machine. He became a expert in every field that interested him. Leonardo’s greatest achievements were his drawings of the Vitruvian Man in 1487, his painting of Mona Lisa 1503 to 1505, Last supper 1495 to 1498. Leonardo also designed and made protypes of a airplane and a helicopter 300 years before the first flying machines. Leonardo is also known for his tank designs and his plans of constructing a catapult. The Vitruvian Man was created in 1487. It is a pen and ink drawing which is to be found in Venice. It is not shown very often as it is very fragile. It consists oftwo superimposed drawings of a male figure in two positions with his arms and legs apart and simultaneously inscribed in a circle and square. The drawing and text are sometimes called the Canon of Proportions or, less often, Proportions of Man. The Mona Lisa is a portatrait of a Woman painted in oil paint in 1503 to 1505. It was painted in Florence and is now in The Louvre in Paris. This portatait is one of the most famous paintings in the world. Mostly because of the Mona Lisa’s eyes. Leonardo painted them in such a way that wherever you stand the Mona Lisa is looking at you. Leonardos other very famous painting is to be found in Milan and is a painting of the Last Supper. It was painted between 1495 to 1498 it shows Jesus with his 12 apostles at the last supper they had together before his death. Leonardo’s scientific studies—particularly in the fields of anatomy, optics, and hydraulics—anticipated many of the developments of modern science. His scientific theories, like his artistic innovations, were based on careful observation and precise documentation, and he understood the importance of precision in science. His interest in anatomy led him to perform dissections, and he studied blood circulation and the action of the eye. He systematically studied the flight of birds, which he applied in his drawings and discussions of ornithopters and other flying crafts. His flying devices, although impracticable, embodied sound principles of aerodynamics. To conclude, the period we know as the Renaissance is marked by cultural changes and a reawakening of interest in the classics--government, literature, art, and thought. The immense scope of Leonardo da Vinci's accomplishments was the impetus for the term "Renaissance Man," becoming part of everyday language. His achievements and interests spanned the arts and sciences to an extent unequalled in known history. He was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician,scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, ana tomist, geologist, cartographer,botanist and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention.[1] He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.[2]