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Leonardo da Vinci is one of the big geniuses of the Renaissance, standing out like artist, inventor and discoverer.
He was born in 1452 in Vinci, being an illegitimate son of a Florentine notary.
With 20 years he is already an independent teacher, interested very much for discovering new skills to work to the oil. |
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LEONARDO DA VINCI
you collectors look hotly not only for his pictures and drawings but also any note of his notebooks of notes, which go so far as to sell for fabulous sums. Leonardo da Vinci fuč much more than an artist, although his paintings were considered to be his most important works. There is the supreme example of "universal man" a Renaissance man.
1.-"Sometimes the providence favors a human being with so many beauty, grace and virtue that in any action that he tackles overcomes all the rest men and each of his acts is evident like a God's gift, not like something acquired by human industry." Four hundred years ago there was describing this way to Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1579) the author of the work "Artists' Lives". To whom do we refer? |
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2.-Todos his pictures wake up a passionate interest, but there is one, especially, that it attracts to an endless procession of pilgrims and admirers. Which is? |
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3.-Al margin of his production, part of his attraction resides in his shy personality, in the contradictions and even in the errors of his life. It was a product of the Renaissance, an epoch in which he believed that "the man can do everything", without embaro, a strange touch is warned and meláncolico in his pictures, drawings and writings. Christ's Baptism is the first sample of Leonardo's talent as painter. In what year did it paint it? |
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4.-Despučs of the conspiracy of the Pazzi, Florence crossed difficult moments during which it tried to be supported or gain Allied Forces. Leonardo was sent like ambassador. It was taking a silver alúd in the shape of head of horse, done by the same one, for regalńŕrselo to duke Ludovico. Does he know what city - state was sent?. |
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5.-"The last dinner" was one of the works that cost him the reputation in his epoch. Nevertheless, before his death it began a visible deterioration process, due to the excessive perfectionism of Leonardo. The traditional procedure for the wall painting was the frescoque it was forcing the painter to do with rapidity. Leonardo used a clay base in order to obtain a major vivacity of color and of detail. What agglutinating agent was this clay base containing?. |
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6.-En the year 1515, it left Rome and found his last and most generous patron, who took it with him to his homeland. Where did his new residence fix?. |
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7.-Leonardo da Vinci died on May 2, 1519 and it was buried close to the real chapel of Ambroise's Palace, by order of King Francisco I of France. What his disciple was the principal beneficiary of his testament?. |
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