Thursday, November 5, 2009

Leonardo Da Vinci Achievement

Leonardo’s Achievement

Leonardo the Artist
The best achievement when Leonardo Da Vinci successfully created the new perspective in art such as realism and brush technique. Leonardo begins an artist started in year 1469 A.D. His father trusted her then apprenticed him to the fabled workshop near Verrocchio, Italy. Verrocchio’s is very interesting place and special that was a perspective in fine art which an artist only recently begun to get the hang of, Leonardo was very excellent in her work then he’s quickly got mastered it’s challenges. In early twenties he was downright famous guy that mean when he quickly surpassed Verrocchio.

Renaissance of the century happened in Italy. The cinema, photographs and comedy was away from our culture. This situation nevertheless sought a universal language in fine art for Leonardo. Leonardo gets more effort to create something unique element. With perspective and realistic, he tried to create faithful renditions of life. Leonardo also desire to paint things and something realistically such as figurative, landscape and portrait that was look bold and fresh. Leonardo create their achievement when the culture previously dominated by highly figurative and downright strange religious paintings like ‘The Last Supper’ titled, with oil on canvas paintings.Leonardo went beyond his teaching by making a difficult and scientific study of shadow and in fact of light in her painting to imitate the nature. Leonardo also creates a new technique that called sfumato. It means that you can look the object’s detail and color changed as it receded in the distance. Sfumato originally became developed by the Venetian and Flemish painters. It’s very interesting that Leonardo was the first artist to study in physical proportions of children, women and men and to use these studies to determine the ideal human figure. He believed that the human eye was the perfect instrument for learning these laws, and the artist the perfect person to illustrate one of them.

Leonardo the Inventor and Engineer
Leonardo also became an inventor that has always found it difficult to make a living off their art. Even the master like Leonardo was forced to sell out in order to support himself, so he adapted his drawing skills to the more weapon design, canal building, military engineering and lucrative fields of architecture. Although a peacenik at heart, he landed a job working for the Duke of Milan by calling himself a outlining some of his sinister ideas for weapon and fortifications also the military engineer. Leonardo was the lucky man that he actually really talented as an engineer. The illustrators like Leonardo were a dime a dozen in Renaissance in Italy, but he had a brains and the diligence to break new ground, usually leaving his contemporaries in the dust. Leonardo was a confident man that he wanted to create “new machines” for “new world” more than crackpot geniuses.

As military engineer and architect to the notorious Cesare Borgia, his life had a brilliant and far out ideas, ranging from the practical to the prophetic. He proposed creating a dry route across the Gulf of Istanbul, connecting the Golden Horn and the Bosporus with a bridge. Alas, like most great ideas, the bridge plan was squelched by those killjoy engineers, who flipped when they found out how big it was supposed to be. His watchers got the last though, laugh because modern engineer have determined that the bridged would have been completely sound. They show its construction would have been entirely feasible, proving yet again that Leonardo was the smartest man ever.

Leonardo the Scientist
As a scientist, Leonardo also bridged the gap between the shockingly unscientific medieval methods and our own trusty modern approach. His experiments in human anatomy and the study of fluids, for example that the blew away the accomplishments of his predecessors. Leonardo became more and more wrapped up in his scientific investigations when he beginning with his first stay in Milan and accelerating around the year of 1505. Anatomy, Zoology, Botany, Geologies, optics, aerodynamics and hydrodynamics among others was the sheer range of topics that came under his inquiry is staggering before.While greatly influenced by the writings of the ancient Greek and Romans, Leonardo unlike many of contemporaries, saw the limitations of seeking the truth solely in writings the Bible.

Leonardo certainly had an uncanny ability to observe nature and record it and to this he added a preternatural even spooky determination. Paolo Giovi, wrote the biography about Leonardo Da Vinci, wrote in 1520 that “in the medical faculty he learned to dissect the cadavers of criminals under inhuman, disgusting conditions…because he wanted to examined and to draw the different reflections and deflections of limb and their dependence upon the joints and the nerves”. This is why he paid attention to the forms of even very small organs, capillaries and hidden parts of the skeleton.

Leonardo also write that “the former and the contemporary authors have produce written reports that about the anatomy in tormenting long winded and confused style. However, through a concise portrayal from different perspectives, things are described definitively and to avoid that my gift to mankind could be lost (the time), I teach the technique of reproducing things by printing”. It happened when Leonardo study of cervical vertebra shown from different perspective. Leonardo thinks the remarks heralded the birth of a new method of scientific study, systematic, descriptive method of the natural sciences, which was the predominant method in scientific study well into the 19th century. He always used this method of scientific inquiry, close observation, repeated testing of observation, precise illustration of the subject object or phenomenon with brief explanatory note as his curiosity took him in ever wilder direction. Also the sun, stars, moon and another planet to the formation of fossils and perhaps most notably that was a mystery of flight.


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  1. Interesting blog, it reminds me of Leonardo da Vinci , quote: "Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail. For instance, experience shows us that the air must have darkness beyond it and yet it appears blue."
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