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Leonardo da Vinci Brief Biography Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) was a celebrated Italian Renaissance architect, inventor, engineer, sculptor and painter. He can be seen as the archetype of the Renaissance Man and has been defined as a genius. His life was described in Giorgio Vasari 's "Vite". Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy. This was before modern naming conventions developed in Europe. Therefore, his full name was 'Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci,' which means "Leonardo, son of Piero, from Vinci". Leonardo himself simply signed his works "Leonardo" or "Io, Leonardo" ("I, Leonardo"). Presumably he did not use his father's name because he was an illegitimate child. The son of a wealthy landowner and a peasant girl, Leonardo grew up with his father in Florence. He became a painter's apprentice and later an independent painter in Florence. From 1482 to 1499 he worked for the Duke of Milan and maintained his own workshop with apprentices there. He returned to Florence, entered the services of Cesare Borgia (also called "Duca Valentino" and son of Pope Alexander VI) as military architect and engineer, and eventually (1506) returned to Milan. From 1513 to 1516 he lived in Rome, where painters like Raphael and Michelangelo were active at the time; he did not have much contact with these artists however. In 1516, he entered the services of king Francois I of France at the Royal Chateau at Amboise. He died on May 2, 1519 in Cloux, France and is buried in the Chapel of St. Hubert in the castle of Amboise. Leonardo appears to never have had intimate relations with women. In 1476 he was anonymously accused of homosexual contact with a 17-year-old model, Jacopo Saltarelli, a notorious prostitute. He was, together with three other young men, charged with homosexual conduct and acquitted because of lack of evidence. For a time Leonardo and the others were under the watchful eye of Florence's "Officers of the Night" - a kind of renaissance vice squad.

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123. Da Vinci, Leonardo - Great Men And Women Of The World leonardo da vinci (14521519), Florentine artist, one of the great masters of the High Renaissance, celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and http://homepage.oanet.com/jaywhy/leonardo.htm

(En Français) Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Florentine artist, one of the great masters of the High Renaissance, celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist. His profound love of knowledge and research was the keynote of both his artistic and scientific endeavors. His innovations in the field of painting influenced the course of Italian art for more than a century after his death, and his scientific studies (particularly in the fields of anatomy, optics, and hydraulics) anticipated many of the developments of modern science. Early Life in Florance In 1478 Leonardo became an independent master. His first commission, to paint an altarpiece for the chapel of the Palazzo Vecchio, the Florentine town hall, was never executed. His first large painting, The Adoration of the Magi (begun 1481, Uffizi), left unfinished, was ordered in 1481 for the Monastery of San Donato a Scopeto, Florence. Other works ascribed to his youth are the so-called Benois Madonna (c. 1478, Hermitage, Saint Petersburg), the portrait Ginevra de' Benci (c. 1474, National Gallery, Washington, D.C.), and the unfinished Saint Jerome (c. 1481, Pinacoteca, Vatican). Years in Milan About 1482 Leonardo entered the service of the duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, having written the duke an astonishing letter in which he stated that he could build portable bridges; that he knew the techniques of constructing bombardments and of making cannons; that he could build ships as well as armored vehicles, catapults, and other war machines; and that he could execute sculpture in marble, bronze, and clay. He served as principal engineer in the duke's numerous military enterprises and was active also as an architect. In addition, he assisted the Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli in the celebrated work Divina Proportione (1509).

124. Leonardo Da Vinci - From Inspiration To Innovation An illustrated biography, including photographs of three fullsize models made for the BBC One series leonardo, and online images of the Library's leonardo notebook. http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/leonardo/leonardo.html

document.write(''); Home What's on Exhibitions Previous ... site map Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) From inspiration to innovation Main His life His insights Diving apparatus ... Turn the Pages Introduction Models of Leonardo's glider and parachute hanging in the Entrance Hall of the British Library in London. Model-makers: Simon Sanderson (glider), Katarian Ollikaine (parachute). Everyone has heard of the Mona Lisa, but less well-known than Leonardo's painting are his notebooks. They show that he was a designer and scientist way beyond his time. He drew his visions of the aeroplane, the helicopter, the parachute, the submarine and the car. It was more than 300 years before many of his ideas were improved upon. The notebooks are where Leonardo recorded his own ideas as well as existing designs and philosophies for reference. They were never intended for publication. After his death in France on 2 May 1519, Francesco Melzi, his pupil, brought many of his manuscripts and drawings back to Italy. Melzi's heirs, who had no idea of the importance of the manuscripts, gradually disposed of them. Despite this, over 5,000 pages still exist in Leonardo's 'mirror writing', from right to left. Over the centuries the sheets have been split up, and few notebooks survive in anything like their original form. Some even remained undiscovered until 1966, when they were found by chance in the archives of the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid.

125. Leonardo DaVinci The Inventor leonardo da vinci made the first real studies of flight in the 1480 s. It was a design that leonardo da vinci created to show how man could fly. http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blda-vinci.htm

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128. Leonardo Da Vinci - Biography About The Famous Renaissance Artist And Painter Fr Interactive biography of the artist and inventor by Martin Kausal. http://www.kausal.com/

Birthplace in Anchiano Childhood in Vinci Apprenticeship Florence ... Online streaming Video Leonardo da Vinci Discover Leonardo da Vinci, a man well beyond his time. The following pages contain pictures and biographic facts about Leonardo da Vinci you can find only here. Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, architect, engineer, mathematician and philosopher, a genius the world has never seen again so far Start your virtual journey in Anchiano (Italy) where Leonardo da Vinci was born on the 15th of April 1452. "Leonardo da Vinci was like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the others were all still asleep" Sigmund Freud Recommend Guestbook Email Links ... Privacy

129. Da Vinci, Leonardo (1452-1519) -- From Eric Weisstein's World Of Scientific Biog da vinci, leonardo (14521519), Italian artist, engineer, and scientist. da vinci, L. The Notebooks of leonardo da vinci. Oxford University Press, 1982. http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/daVinci.html

Branch of Science Engineers Branch of Science Scholars ... Italian Da Vinci, Leonardo (1452-1519) Italian artist, engineer, and scientist. He was a true Renaissance man, and studied architecture, astronomy, and anatomy as well as painting and sculpture. References Cook, T. A. The Curves of Life, Being an Account of Spiral Formations and their Application to Growth in Nature, to Science, and to Art: With Special Reference to the Manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci. New York: Dover, 1979. da Vinci, L. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. Oxford University Press, 1982.

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Florentine painter and sculptor, 1452 - 1519 All the animal creation, which he treated with wonderful love and patience, gave him great pleasure. Often when he was walking past the places where birds were sold, he would pay the price asked, take them from their cages, and let them fly off into the air, giving them back their lost freedom. "[Leonardo] did many architectural drawings both of ground plans and other elevations, and, while still young, he was the first to propose reducing the Arno to a navigable canal between Pisa and Florence." I-256 Arcades, Codex B, Paris Windows, Codex B, Paris "He made designs for mills, fulling machines and engines that could be driven by water power; and as he intended to be a painter by profession he carefully studied drawing from life." I-256 A machine for making sequins, Codex Atlanticus, Milan Study of an angel Study of an old man "Leonardo did beautiful and detailed drawings on paper which are unrivalled for the perfection of ther finish, as one can see from the examples I have in my book of drawings." I-256 Head of a woman "He demonstrated how to lift and draw great weights by means of levers, hoists and winches, and ways of cleansing harbours and using pumps to suck up water from great depths."

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KABBALAH EGYPT JUDAICA RENAISSANCE ... JOZE PLECNIK Leonardo da Vinci (1471-1528) is one of the most famous artists on the planet. What makes him so unique is his wide range of research of different subjects while providing unseen solutions to hardly imaginable problems. He was a genius, or better, a magus. Follow the investigation into mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's apprehension of the universe ... VITRUVIAN MAN The foundation of the Renaissance compositional canon. About a circle, a square, and a triangle. EGYPTIAN ORIGIN Similar canon was used in ancient Egypt. Is Vitruvian Man just elaborating the tradition? MONA LISA The identity of the most famous woman in the world is the concealed enigma. The dating of the engraving suggests that in 1514 Albrecht Durer engraved one of his famous etchings, one of the "Meisterstiche":

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134. Discovery Channel :: Da Vinci Invented Natural Plastics Feb. 4, 2004 — leonardo da vinci not only anticipated the airplane, the life jacket, the intercom and the robot, he also created the first natural plastic http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040202/leonardo.html

May 27, 2004 EDT Da Vinci Invented Natural Plastics By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News See more pictures of da Vinci plastic creations. Feb. 4, 2004 Alessandro Vezzosi, director of the Museo Ideale in the Tuscan town of Vinci, where the artist was born the illegitimate child of a Florentine notary and a peasant girl in 1452, found Leonardo's recipe for artificial materials in several pages of drawings and notes. On TV: Read about researchers working in the field featured in our Discovery Quest series. History Guide: Get more and unlock the secrets of the past. Written in Da Vinci's characteristic "mirror-image" handwriting, running from right to left, the notes had been found in the Arundel Codex (housed in the British Library in London), Forster Codex (in London at the Victoria and Albert Museum) and the Atlantic Codex (kept in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, Italy) and in manuscripts in France. "He talks of a mixture. He combined colors with animal or vegetable glues, sometimes adding organic fibers," Vezzosi told Discovery News. The Renaissance master obtained effects similar to plastic and unbreakable glass by "clothing with colors" the leaves of cabbage, lettuce, paper and even ox tripe.

135. Leonardo Virtual Museum A visual review of web items which have been associated with the artist. http://leonardo-da-vinci.org/

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Leonardo Bridge in Aas Click for full image Leonardo's Bridge Oil on canvas Click for larger image Da Vinci's Sketch of Golden Horn Bridge Click for larger image See Slide Show of Bridge Project in Norway Click Leonardo Bridge Project In 1502 Leonardo da Vinci did a simple drawing of a graceful bridge with a single span of 720-foot span (approximately 240-meters.) Da Vinci designed the bridge as part of a civil engineering project for Sultan Bajazet II of Constantinople (Istanbul.) The bridge was to span the Golden Horn, an inlet at the mouth of the Bosphorus River in what is now Turkey. The Bridge was never built. Leonardo's "Golden Horn" Bridge is a perfect "pressed-bow." Leonardo surmised correctly that the classic keystone arch could be stretched narrow and substantially widened without losing integrity by using a flared foothold, or pier, and the terrain to anchor each end of the span . It was conceived 300 years prior to its engineering principals being generally accepted. It was to be 72 feet-wide (24 meters), 1080-foot total length (360 meters) and 120 feet (40 meters) above the sea level at the highest point of the span.

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General Leonardo Bibliography - A through D E-K L M-R S-Z ... LdV.org Characaturas by Leonardo da Vinci from drawings by Winceslaus Hollar out of the Portland Museum . London, John Clarke. Postille alle osservazioni sul volume intitolato Del cenacolo di Leonardo da Vinci, libri quattro ecc . Milano, Stamperia reale. Tabula anatomica Leonardi da Vinci : summi quondam pictoris e Bibliotheca Augustissimi Magnae Britanniae Hannoveraeque regis depromta, venerem obversam e legibus naturae hominibus solam convenire, ostendens , Sumtibus Heroldi et Wahlstabii. A Week at Glenville . Philadelphia, Published by J.W. Moore. Salvator mundi : brief meditations in prose and verse on the life of Christ : selected from the works of Chrysostom, Augustine, Anselm, Bishop Hall, and other writers : with twelve photographs after Bellini, Leonardo da Vinci, Raffaelle, Tintoretto, Rembrandt, and other masters . London, Seeley Jackson and Halliday. , F. Ongania. . Venezia, F. Ongania. Masters in art. A series of illustrated monographs , Bates and Guild co.

140. Leonardo Da Vinci's Polyhedra leonardo da vinci s Polyhedra. leonardo da vinci (14521519) was the quintessential renaissance man artist, mathematician, scientist, and engineer. http://www.georgehart.com/virtual-polyhedra/leonardo.html

Leonardo da Vinci's Polyhedra Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was the quintessential renaissance man : artist, mathematician, scientist, and engineer. He was a great lover of geometry, and devoted much time to it starting in his early forties. His most outstanding polyhedral accomplishment is the illustrations for Luca Pacioli 's 1509 book The Divine Proportion . At right is one of the illustrations from that book. The term Ycocedron Abscisus in the title plaque means truncated icosahedron , and the term Vacuus refers to the fact that the faces are hollow. (The drawings are beautifully hand colored like this in the Ambrosiana manuscript, reprinted by Officina Bodoni, 1956, and also by Silvana Editoriale, 1982.) These are the first illustrations of polyhedra ever in the form of "solid edges." The solidity of the edges lets one easily see which edges belong to the front and which to the back, unlike simple line drawings where the front and back surfaces may be visually confused. Yet the hollow faces allow one to see through to the structure of the rear surface. This is a brilliant new form of geometric illustration, one worthy of Leonardo's genius for insightful graphic display of information. However, it is not clear whether Leonardo invented this new form or whether he was simply drawing from "life" a series of wooden models with solid edges which Pacioli designed. If Pacioli designed these models, then he deserves the credit for this new "solid edge" idea, but it is likely that Leonardo designed them.

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