LEONARDO DA VINCI

Diego Redolar &

Pablo Abad

INTRODUCTION: Who was Leonardo da Vinci?

• Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an italian renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer.

• Mona Lisa

What time period did Leonardo da vinci live in?

• Leonardo da vinci was born in Vinci, Republic of Florence one 15th of April in 1452. This day was the present day in Italy.

• They lived 67 years because they died one 2nd of may of 1519 in Amboise, Kingdom of France.

• He lived in the Renassaince.

Human body by Leonardo

What were Leonardo da Vinci contributons and their impact?

• He developed pictural composition to achieve a more natural look as well as stability. He was an inquisitive and inventive scholar and scientist: he studied human and animal anatomy, the flight of birds, waves, motions in the air. He invented more terrible weapons… Leonardo da Vinci's contributions to art show not only in his early works and masterpieces, but also in his many writings.

Anatomy research: What was the knowledge about human anatomy until the time of Leonardo?And during da Vinci time?

• This tradition leads him to compare the microcosm of the body and the macrocosm of the world. These analogies extend to comparisons between arteries in the body and underground rivers in the earth; the flow of blood to the head, with circulation of water to the summits of mountains; or blood when a vein bursts in the nose and water rushing out of a burst vein of the earth.

What methods used da Vinci to make his anatomy studies?

First he dissected the human corpses of criminals under strict discretion, then he became a successful artist and he was given permission to dissect human corpses at the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova

What conclusion did Leonardo get from his anatomical studies?

He did many drawings of human anatomy, bones, muscles and tendons, heart and vascular system, the

reproductive system and other internal organs, and graphics on the

action of the eye. He also made the first drawing of a fetus.

Why the Leonardo drawings have not been exposed until recently?

Because he gave his drawings to Francesco Melzi and Leonardo said to him

that the drawings should not be found. When Leonardo died,

Francesco hid them and in the 19th century the drawings were

found.

3.ANATOMICAL DRAWINGS OF LEONARDO: A comparison with nowadays knowledge.