https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke Sherwin B. Nuland en-us 2023-02-01 22:01:37 UTC 2023-04-03 06:45:18 UTC hello@padlet.com wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2484154669 Nuland, Sherwin. Leonardo Da Vinci: A Life. United States, Penguin Publishing Group, 2005.]]> 2023-02-15 21:54:35 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2484154669 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2535402739 Leonardo was born in Anchiano, on April 15, 1452. At the time of his birth his parents were not married to each other. Later on, they each married different people.

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"According to some, he was born in the nearby town of Anchiano and brought to Vinci only after a few years, or perhaps it was a few months." (3)]]> 2023-03-28 17:26:19 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2535402739 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2535402874 The name of Leonardo's mother was Caterina, she was a young peasan lady from Anchiano. After the birth of Leonardo, she got married to di Piero of Vinci. Very little is known about Caterina. She was not really in Leonardo's life but it is likely that she nursed and watched Leonardo the first couple years of his life.

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"His mother was a girl of the town of Vinci or a neighboring community." (13)]]> 2023-03-28 17:26:25 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2535402874 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2535402978 Leonardo was an "illegitimate" son of Ser Piero. Ser Piero was a notary. Soon after the birth of Leonardo, his father married Albiera di Giovanni Amadori. Albiera grew to love Leonardo as her own. It was assumed that Leonardo spent most of his life in Vinci, with his father. Although, there is no way of actually knowing because he could've just been sent to his father a lot.

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"ONE DAY in the early spring of 1452, a prosperous eighty-year-old landowner set down a few details of a recent notable event in his family: "A grandson of mine was born, son of Sir Piero my son, on April 15 Saturday at three o'clock in the night." (12)]]> 2023-03-28 17:26:30 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2535402978 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2535403114 Leonardo's education lasted till the age of 15. He learned basic math, reading, and writing. Not much is known about whether or not he had any formal education. He had little mastery of classical language and did not attempt to sudy it besides using Latin occasionally. His understaning of Greek, Latin, and Arabic came from reading it in Italian translation and sharing it with his colleagues. Because of this people called him "an unlettered man".

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"Leonardo's education until the age of approximately fifteen was probably to a large extent in the hand of Alberia and her mother-in-law, Monna Lucia, who was fifty-nine when he was born." (21)]]> 2023-03-28 17:26:36 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2535403114 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2535403249 At around the age of 15-18, Leonardo and his family moved to Florence. His father introduced him to Andrea di Cione (Verrocchio), she was a leading artist within that city. From there, he became her apprentice. He learned and improved his painting and sculpting techniques.

]]> 2023-03-28 17:26:43 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2535403249 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2535403406 Leonardo was fascinate with anatomy. He had the intention to enhance the art in anatomy, but during dissections he saw a fascinating and interesting side to it. He was the first artist to dissect a human body. He was also most likely the first person to accurately represent the internal human organ.

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"Begun by Leonardo only with the intent of enhancing the art, in his probing hand these dissections gradually began to take on a more investigative aspect." (27)]]> 2023-03-28 17:26:50 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2535403406 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2535403543 Leonardo moved to Milan in 1482. He moved there primarily to be able to work with the ruler. Before he had moved to Milan, he wrote a letter to the ruler, Ludovico Sforza, for a job opportunity.

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"Earlier that year, Leonardo sent the ruler of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, a letter that was essentially a job application." (31)]]> 2023-03-28 17:26:56 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2535403543 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2535403687 In Milan, Leonardo worked for Duke Ludovico. He took up the job to be a military engineer. He used his artistic abilities to design machines, weapons, and buildings. He had to study the state of the battle, carefully examine the weaponry used for war, etc. ]]> 2023-03-28 17:27:02 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2535403687 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2535403830 In 1494, Ludovico Sforza, became the duke of Milan. There, he asked Leonardo to play the lute for him. Leonardo played an instrument for him that he made himself. The instrument was constructed from silver in the shape of a horse's head, this allowed the instrument to have a louder tone and be more deep. 

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"When Ludovico Sforza became due of Milan in 1494, he invited Leonardo most ceremoniously to come and play the lute before him." (38)]]> 2023-03-28 17:27:10 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2535403830 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2535403964 Leonardo had promised to make a statue for Ludovico. Sadly, the statue did not turn out good. He retried the horse again, but it did not work out again. He discontinued to work on this project. Later some time, the bronze that was used for casting the statue got sent to Ferrara. It was from Ludovico, to be made into canon. Leonardo carried on with his plan but he knew that it wasn't going to work. Eventually, the horse got destroyed from target practice and got decomposed.]]> 2023-03-28 17:27:16 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2535403964 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539332387 2023-03-31 03:42:57 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539332387 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539339699 Although Leonardo began his fascination with anatomy in Florence, Milan was where his fascination became more broad. His paintings became more precise and was more efficient. In the 1952 text, Leonardo da Vinci on the Human body, it has been expressed by Charles O'Malley and J.B de C. M. Saunders, that it contained errors with indications that most of his knowledge of anatomy had been from reading, observation and animal dissection, instead of actual human dissection. ]]> 2023-03-31 03:51:30 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539339699 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539339932 The Last Supper is a memorable piece of art for the Christians.  The painting represents a significant part in the Bible. Leonardo wrote, "That figure is most praiseworthy which, by its actions, expresses the passions of the soul." Although we have never met these people in the picture, we know them.]]> 2023-03-31 03:51:48 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539339932 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539340315 Leonardo begins many art but doesn't finish them. He receives many recognitions for his art, even the ones that are unfinished. Some of the praise that he got for his art are, Annunciation, Saint Jerome, and the Adoration of the Magi. Because of him not finishing some art but still receiving recognition, he was known as a man who, "began many things that he never completed."]]> 2023-03-31 03:52:17 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539340315 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539340515 While in Milan, Leonardo worked on architectural projects. The city's great cathedral was one of the most important one that he did. He worked on it between 1487 and 1490. One project that he worked on but later lost interest was a wooden model for the Duomo.]]> 2023-03-31 03:52:32 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539340515 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539340701 Luca Pacioli was a friend of Leonardo. He was a successful and recognizable mathematician. He was also a member of the Franciscan Order. Pacioli and Leonardo became close friends and ended up living together. The two of them later created a treatise, De divine proportione.]]> 2023-03-31 03:52:45 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539340701 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539340900 Leonardo moved back to Florence. As recorded in a bank record, he withdrew 600 florins in April 24, 1500. After 17-ish, 18-ish years of living in Milan, he is returning to where he came from. He realized that things have changed since he lived there.]]> 2023-03-31 03:53:00 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539340900 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539341364 Leonardo was at the Santa Maria Nuova hospital to do dissection. He met a man that was a hundred years old, and according to him, in good health. After the man had passed while sitting in bed, Leonardo examined the anatomy. He discovered that the cause of the death was from failure in blood.

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"Shortly thereafter, the ancient fellow suddenly died while sitting in bed, and Leonardo, who "examined the anatomy to ascertain the cause of the sweet death," discovered that it was caused by "a weakness through failure of blood and of the artery that feeds the heat and the lower members which I found to be very patched and shrunk and withered; and the result of this examination I wrote down very carefully." (71) ]]> 2023-03-31 03:53:32 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539341364 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539341622 Michelangelo was a young artist. He dislikes Leonardo da Vinci. He had once asked Leonardo about how he made a drawing of a horse to be cast, but was not able to cast it so had to abandon it. The two were very different, they had different answer to the approaches of a human figure in action.

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"This second Florentine sojourn provided the occasion for an abortive tournament of the titans between Leonardo and young Michelangelo, who by then had developed a considerable antipathy toward him." (73)]]> 2023-03-31 03:53:50 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539341622 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539341798 Leonardo had started painting the Mona Lisa at around 1503.  It is one of his most popular paintings. People really liked how realistic the Mona Lisa was. This piece of artwork also showed Leonardo's proficiency in anatomy and realism.

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"The art historian Sydney Freedberg has said of the Mona Lisa that it is "an image in which a breathing instant had a composure for all time are held in suspension." (48)]]> 2023-03-31 03:54:03 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539341798 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539342012 He had made his will on the eve of Easter, 1519. In it, all of his notebooks were left to Melzi, and he arranged for the masses to be said to three different church, scattering his heritage. Leonardo da Vinci dies on May 2, 1519. ]]> 2023-03-31 03:54:17 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539342012 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539398213 2023-03-31 05:02:35 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539398213 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539398389 2023-03-31 05:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539398389 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539398560 2023-03-31 05:02:57 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539398560 wahsus000 https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539398675 2023-03-31 05:03:05 UTC https://padlet.com/wahsus000/fzy7udzu752mugke/wish/2539398675