Leonardo Da Vinci came from a lower class family. At an artistic apprenticeship, Leonardo learned to ground pigment, make brushes, draw, paint, and sculpt. As Leonardo got older, he became more advanced. On page 6 of Kids Discover’s Leonardo da Vinci, it quotes that Leonardo was “A genius”, “Unmatched”, and “Divinely inspired”. Many of Leonardo’s projects would go unfinished because many said he was a perfectionist. Others thought he would get bored and gain interest in another project. Only a handful of paintings and projects were finished. A few notable paintings by Da Vinci are The Last Supper, The Annunciation, and the most famous painting in the world, the Mona Lisa. Leonardo also drew one of the most accurate, modern drawings of the human body. This drawing helped many doctors further anatomy studies and advancements. As well as a good artist, Leonardo was an inventor. He drew several sketches of technology ahead of his time. He sketched one of the first flying machines. He also drew a bridge canal, several military machines, and an improved printing press. Most of the technology Da Vinci sketched exists in the modern world today. Known as an engineer and artist, Da Vinci was also a talented musician. According to sources in the magazine, “he sang beautifully and was a fine musician.” Leonardo also played a lute like instrument and built a simplistic drum and keyboard. 

            For the reasons explained above, Leonardo Da Vinci should be awarded Renaissance Man of 2019. He was a creative painter, intellectual engineer, talented musician, and many more amazing skills and attributes. He was an incredible man and deserves the honor of this award. As Da Vinci said, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” 

 

Renaissance Man: “A person with many talents or areas of knowledge.”  During the time period of the Renaissance, there were many great scientists such as Galileo Galilei.  There were artists, like Michelangelo.  There were inventors, like Leon Battista Alberti.  But one man rises above the rest as a true Renaissance Man, a master of painting, inventing, and science – Leonardo da Vinci. 

First off, Leonardo da Vinci was incredibly proficient in the art of painting.  According to Kids Discover’s Leonardo da Vinci, he created “...such a realistic-looking dragon that his father, Ser Piero, was truly frightened upon seeing it,” as a young child.  Also, during his apprenticeship Leonardo was decidedly one of the very best despite his young age according to page four of Leonardo da Vinci.  Lastly, Leonardo da Vinci was a master painter due to the amount of paintings he made during his time.  Even though most of them weren’t even finished, they are still considered some of the best paintings.  In conclusion, Leonardo da Vinci was an expert painter due to the amount of detail in his works, proficiency in the arts, and sheer quantity of magnificent paintings he produced. 

Secondly, Leonardo da Vinci was also a skilled inventor.  On page eight of Leonardo da Vinci, da Vinci states in his letter that he has lots of knowledge on machines and architecture.  Also, some scholars give the great invention of the bicycle to Leonardo, one of the most-used transportation devices in a lot of areas that we still use today.  In conclusion, Leonardo da Vinci was, additionally to an excellent painter, a very skilled inventor and engineer as well.   

Overall, Leonardo da Vinci was the living definition of a Renaissance Man.  He was well-rounded, or skilled in many areas.  It is manifest that he is a true candidate for Renaissance Man because he was both an astonishing artist and engineer. 

 

Leonardo da Vinci should be Mr. renaissance man 2019 because he did everything. He was an artist, scientist, engineer, inventor, and musician. He was an amazing artist, painting the Mona Lisa. He was one of the best scientists of the age, having made several advancements to the scientific side of the renaissance. He was an engineer of 21st century proportions. He designed flying machines, a tank, and other weapons that have not been built yet. His inventing streak is a mile wide. He also mastered an instrument called the lira de braccio. He made his own, which included a unique drum and keyboard. Leonardo was a person that liked to do everything, and he was good at all of it. Leonardo da Vinci, Da Rennasaince man 2019! 

While in his time of inventing he invented planes, tanks, helicopters, the flying man, the dredger, the battleship, the paddleboat, the digging machine, the mirror grinder, the spring driven car, the parachute, and he upgraded the printing press to make it better. Some of these things weren’t made until hundreds of years after Leonardo died. 

As a work of the arts he painted the Mona Lisa and when he was young, he drew such a realistic dragon that it scared his dad so he became an apprentice to one of the best artist at the time which helped improve the elementary education that he earned. He could draw humans Very realistically and wrote in his notebook in mirror handwriting. Mirror handwriting is writing backwards. This was so people couldn’t steal his ideas. 

He was a musician. People said that he had a very good singing voice as well as a good instrumental music that he would play. 

He did all of the things that everyone wanted to do, and you might think of him being a hyperbole, but he is not. There is evidence of him being able to do great things and his notebooks had sketches of the inventions that he made with the paper dating back to when he lived so it is all there, and it is all true. 

Besides his artwork, he did a lot of other things. Not only was he an artist, but he was also an inventor. He invented many things such as a robot and a special tank. Da Vinci couldn’t write though. You know how when Albert Einstein was creating the lightbulb, he could write down notes about his predictions on what would happen. Da Vinci couldn’t do that. This is another reason why he should be names the Rennaissance man of 2019. He can do multiple different things and be good at all of them even when he doesn’t have some abilities that would be useful when doing them. 

He created different genres of art. Most people back then stayed to one topic when they made their art. He branched out to do religious and normal ones. This shows that he isn’t like the other artists. He is different.  

Leonardo Da Vinci didn’t just have the Mona Lisa as his popular painting. The Last Supper is also huge painting that still stands today. People think that the Mona Lisa is his only good piece of art but once they see the rest, they just can’t look away. Da Vinci has that effect on people. These reasons are why I believe Leonardo Da Vinci should be The Rennaissance Man. If he doesn’t deserve it, who does? 

Leonardo Davinci was a master at the arts, both music and painting. He made the most famous painting of all, the Mona Lisa. Millions of people go to see his painting that was made hundreds of years ago and has remained the most famous. He even created his own instrument for him to play in his free time. He was one of the people who started putting background of his pictures to make them more realistic which is another thing he practiced by not making man-babies. He started liner perspective which was huge step forward in the world of art. He sketched machines used in war that were used hundreds of years later that could have made huge advances in war. Not only was he the greatest artist and thinker and musician he wrote in a special way too. He wrote backwards to his left hand would not smear the ink, so he was always neat. He used a technique in his art like in his painting “The Last Supper” he used lines, so it leads you to Jesus’ face. DaVinci is the ultimate Rennaissance man because he is a ground-breaking artist and an amazing thinker. 

He was a skilled musician he played the lira da braccio and even made his own. He also learned to draw the human anatomy something that was uncommon at the time.

Lastly, he was a very skilled painter who painted the most famous painting, the Mona Lisa. He used advanced techniques to make his paintings realistic. 

You might be thinking Leonardo Da Vinci just sounds like the average person during the renaissance but he was much more some of the things he did influenced people for hundreds of years. He thought well beyond his time and didn’t acknowledge the boundaries that were set at the time.

An artist, scientist, musician, engineer, inventor all into one? That’s right. Leonardo Da Vinci has done all of this in a single lifetime. Who wouldn’t want him to be the renaissance man? 

As an artist, Leonardo created the world most famous painting; the Mona Lisa. He also made the Last Supper, a painting showing Jesus’s last meal before being crucified. Leonardo sketched many inventions that were used hundreds of years later, like the parachute. Fun fact: Leonardo did not complete most of his major works. 

Being an inventor, Da Vinci drew sketches of helpful and smart inventions. One thing that he invented was the parachute, which is now lifesaving to many people. He also thought of the idea of the helicopter, which wasn’t invented until the late 1930s. Other sketches of inventions he drew was the battleship, tank, and model of a flying man.  

He was a skilled musician on an instrument called the lira da braccio, kind of like a lute. He even built a unique drum and a keyboard. 

Leonardo planned a city with his great engineering. He felt as though the city was overcrowding and that gave it problems. To fix this, he divided the big city of Milan into ten towns of five thousand houses each.  

Finally, he was a scientist. He researched and drew the movement of water. In the drawing, he showed turbulent violent nature of the movement of water. 

These are all the reasons that Leonardo Da Vinci should be considered the Renaissance Man.