Leonardo Da Vinci - The Renaissance Prince

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When Rome fell, trade and commerce collapsed and the European Worlddescended into chaos. It took seven hundred years of war, plague, and

poverty before the continent emerged from turmoil and moved into theRenaissance


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The Black eath had killed millions in Europe and left the survivorswith proportionally greater wealth. Italian society, and the resultsof the Black eath, allowed people to demonstrate their wealth.


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!t the very top of Italian society, the rulers of the key courts in Italy were all "new men#,recently con$rmed in their positions of power and with newly gained wealth, and they

were keen to demonstrate both. When artistic and scholarly movements turned back tothe classical world at the start of the $fteenth century there were plenty of patrons ready

to support them in these endeavours to make political points.


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%uch a man was &oren'o de (edici)

!nd among his $nds were Renaissance men, withthe like of Botticelli, (ichelangelo and)


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&eonardo a +inci The Renaissance rince


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In the normal course of events many men andwomen are born with remarkable talents- but

occasionally, in a way that transcends nature, asingle person is marvelously endowed by eaven

with beauty, grace and talent in such abundancethat he leaves other men far behind, all his

actions seem inspired and indeed everything hedoes clearly comes from /od rather than from

human skill. Everyone acknowledged that this was

true of &eonardo da +inci, an artist of outstandingphysical beauty, who displayed in$nite grace ineverything that he did and who cultivated his

genius so brilliantly that all problems he studied

he solved with ease.

0/iorgio +asariBiographer


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1ame 2 &eonardo di ser iero da +inciBorn 234 !pril 3546,+inci, Republic of 7lorence 8Italy9

ied 2 6 (ay 343:8aged ;


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umble Beginnings

Born in +inci, Italy, an illegitimate son to a peasantwoman named >aterina and a successful notary

named iero da +inci, he began his life facinghardship and obscurity.

e grew up in nature, and began to use his keen skillof observation to learn about the world around him.

&eonardo received an informal education in &atin,geometry and mathematics

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umble Beginnings

&eonardo recorded only two childhood incidents

@ne, which he regarded as an omen, was whena kite dropped from the sky and hovered over hiscradle, its tail feathers brushing his face.

The second occurred while he was eAploring in themountains2 he discovered a cave and was bothterri$ed that some great monster might lurk thereand driven by curiosity to $nd out what was inside

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The /reatest olymath&eonardo a +inci

!rchitect

Botanist

(usician

Writer

%cientist

(athematician

Engineer

Inventor

!natomist

ainter

%culptor


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The (ind of the /enius

>urious as well as observant, he constantly tried to eAplainwhat he saw.

Because he wrote down and sketched so many of hisobservations, we know that he was among the very $rst totake a scienti$c approach towards understanding how ourworld works and how we see it


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arachute


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Tank


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7lying >ontraption

@mithopter


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>onstruction >ane


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/iant >rossbow


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Triple Barreled >anon


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!erial %crew


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iving %uit


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(ore machinesWork machines?%elf propelled car, pillar lifting machine, pile driver,drilling machine, revolving crane, machine for threading screws,machine for making mirrors, machine for making ropes, wingedspindle, distiller with continuous cooling system, pulleys,mechanical drum, odometer, gold foraging hammer, fan, rollers forfriction studies, machine for digging trenches, and more

Water and &and machines? sluice gate hatch, lagoon dredge,

paddle boat, webbed glove, drop?bottom oat, oats for walking onwater, fast?construction bridge, boat with paddle wheels, divingbell, bilge pump, device for measuring water turning to steam,double hull, auto?feed hydraulic saw, mobile?ram boat 8assaultbattleship9.


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(aps

(ap of Imola


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%tudy of uman

!natomy&eonardo often watcheddoctors perform autopsies

so that he could studyhuman anatomy.

e later began dissectingcorpses on his own and

carefully sketched everythingthat he saw.


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7urther !natomyThe detail with which &eonardo a +inci observed, recorded,

drew, documented his medical $ndings set an eAample forresearchers and medical practitioners for centuries to come.

The 'ealousness with which &eonardo a +inci searched foranswers set an eAample for all of the world.


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7etus in the Womb


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Ever >urious (ind

&eonardo a +inci had a strong curiosity and refused to

believe what his observations could not prove. 7or eAample,through his studies of fossils, he refuted ideas such as the/reat 7lood from the biblical era of 1oah who built the ark.

By his studies refuting the ood, &eonardo also predicted the

6Cth century idea of plate tectonics by considering thepossibility of uplift in mountain building.

It was even suggested that &eonardo conceptuali'ed an ideaof evolution, which was not formally researched andpublished by >harles arwin until 3D4:... more than CCyears laterFFF


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! (ind Both !rtistic and

%cienti$c

Because Leonardo the artist sought for the idealface, he skillfully sliced open the skull to

reveal the brain cavity and see what lay beneath.Combining art and science he

analyzed the proportions of the head.


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+iola @rganista

(usical Instrument


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(ona &isa

&eonardo a +inci paintedthe (ona &isa on a piece of

pine wood in the year 34C;. 1everin the history of !rt has onepainting been so admired. This isdue largely to the enigmatic smile,which has caused much speculation.

The insurance money for thepainting is predicted to be aroundG%$780 millionin 6C34.


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The &ast %upper

H >onsidered by many to

be &eonardos greatestpainting, The &ast %upperemploys all of his anatomicalwork in the eApressions of>hrist and the !postles.


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Battle of the !nghiari


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&ady With an !rmine


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(adonna @f

Jarnwinder


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>odeA !rundel


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>odeA &eicester

%old to Bill/ates for G%KC,DC6,4CC


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Why hes a geniusThe fact that he was so good at everything

he did, 8and he did a lot many things9, makeshim eAceptionally smart. is idiosyncrasies8the left?handed mirror script, the manicsearch for knowledge and understanding, themyriads of un$nished proLects9, his

originality, his breakthrough, almost futuristicthinking is what sets him apart.

(irror scriptThe adoration of the (agi?another un$nished work of

&eonardo a +inci

Gn$nished a +incipainting of %t Merome


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&iana Bortolon, writing in 3:;


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&eon Battista !lberti835C5P35


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H "It had long since come to my attentionthat people of accomplishment rarely satback and let things happen to them. Theywent out and happened to things.#

Q &eonardo da +inciH "I love those who can smile in trouble...#

Q &eonardo da +inci

H "The noblest pleasure is the Loy of

understanding.#Q &eonardo da +inci


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