Leonardo da Vinci is a brilliant Italian painter, sculptor, engineer, musician and architect who lived and worked in the Renaissance. His unique paintings, for example, The Last Supper and The Mona Lisa, are known all over the world. Leonardo da Vinci was the author of numerous inventions, thanks to which such sciences as astronomy and anatomy, as well as urban planning, began to actively develop.
Mom from Circassia
According to the historian Carlo Vecce, the genius was born to a slave girl who was freed by Leonardo's father, a slave trader. Officially, the artist's mother is called a poor peasant Katerina from the small town of Vinci, and his father was a rich notary Sir Piero. Leonardo is his illegitimate child.
According to Carlo Vecce's research, the birthplace of the slave Katerina is North Caucasian Circassia, where the girl was abducted, after which she ended up in Constantinople, and then in Venice, where Katerina was bought. She worked in one of the families living in Vinci as a wet nurse.
The notary Sir Pierrot issued a certificate to the slave, which mentions Circassia. He was also the father of her son, born on April 15, 1452.
The life path of a genius
The notary became the guardian of the child, and then took him to his Florentine home, where Leonardo studied ancient texts and works of art. The fourteen-year-old boy was an apprentice in the workshop of Verocchio, where he learned to draw and create sculptures.
The 28-year-old Leonardo became the founder of the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, and at the end of the XV century he traveled a lot and was engaged in the construction of defensive structures. In 1513 Leonardo came to Rome, and then he was invited as a court sage by the French king Francis I. The great artist and scientist died in 1519.
Stages of creativity
It should be said about the three stages of the creative path of the great artist: 1. During the early period, Leonardo often did not complete the work he had begun, for example, the painting "Adoration of the Magi", which was commissioned by the monastery of San Donato. At the same time, da Vinci was working on The Annunciation and Madonna Benoit. The young painter could already boast of his high skill even then. 2. The artist's creative maturity came when he moved to Milan to develop his engineering career. Here he created the famous "Last Supper" and wrote "Mona Lisa". 3. During the late period of his creative career, Leonardo da Vinci worked on the drawings included in the Flood series and completed John the Baptist.
Today, the works of the great artist, not counting his frescoes and drawings, you can see if you visit the Washington and London National Galleries, the Czartoryski Museum in Krakow, the Old Pinakothek in Munich, the Florentine Uffizi and, of course, the Louvre in Paris. The collection of the St. Petersburg Hermitage has been replenished with "Madonna Benoit" and "Madonna Litta". There are also paintings created by Leonardesques, imitators of the Italian genius.
Amazing discoveries of a medieval scientist
One of the most famous and valuable discoveries of Leonardo da Vinci should be highlighted: • Studies of the centers of gravity in pyramids, body falls and much more. According to the drawings of the scientist, it can be understood that he was primarily interested in mechanics. • The invention of a wooden car that moved due to two springs. It was even equipped with a brake. • Creation of a spacesuit, fins and a submarine. The scientist used a special gas mixture to dive to the depths of the sea. • Wings for people in different versions. Leonardo studied how a dragonfly flies and decided to go on a flight himself, but his experiment ended unsuccessfully. But he became the creator of the parachute. • Military developments. Da Vinci is the designer of the chariots on which the cannons were mounted. Later, on the same principle, a tank and an armadillo were created much later. • Construction developments. He is the creator of cranes, drainage machines and arch bridges.
Studying Leonardo's drawings, experts were surprised by their anatomical accuracy. Da Vinci explored the human body and its biology. Modern scientists claim that Leonardo opened corpses for this purpose.
The Castle of Clos Luche is the location of the museum, where you can see many models of various inventions of the medieval genius. The scientist's projects were used to recreate them.
Some believe that Leonardo da Vinci is an alien from another world, otherwise how to explain his ingenious inventions ...
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