Leonardo never married, and much of his life remained in obscurity. There were suggestions that he was attached to one young man, Count Francesco Melzi, to whom he bequeathed his personal effects, library, tools, paintings and his money.
The enigmatic painting was unfinished because he had to leave for Milan. He also did the Lady with an Ermine in that city. Back in Florence in the s, he painted the St. Between and , he painted his most famous painting, the Mona Lisa or La Giaconda.
Leonardo was the first artist that used value across colors consistently, thereby gaining tonal unity to generate volume, with light, form and color being interrelated to approximate natural lighting behaviors. His carefully blended oil painting technique allowed him to create color intensity and depth as well as transparency in the effects of light and dark, a mastery of effectively creating three-dimensional objects through chiaroscuro.
He generally expanded the luminance range for greater depth and gained tonal unity by using a common range of value without varying the hue. His paintings were characterized by soft and gentle lighting. Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the greatest inventors. He was also one of the most famous scientists of recorded history.
His genius was limited by time and technology, and was driven by his curiosity, and his instinctive sense of the laws of nature. Da Vinci was dedicated to discovery of truth and the mysteries of nature, and his contributions to science and technology were legendary.
As the classic Renaissance man, Leonardo helped set a curious and superstitious world on the means of reason, science, learning, and tolerance. During the later years of his life, Leonardo was more fascinated by science than he was by art.
Leonardo was not limited by the technology of his time. He studied and thought of ideas that were possible or conceivable. One of his greatest accomplishments is the range of topics that he studied including anatomy, zoology, botany, geology, optics, aerodynamics and hydrodynamics.
His interests were so broad that he often became interested in something else and failed to finish what he started. Even still, Leonardo was so far ahead of his time that many of his ideas would not be further explored or even understood for another to years. Leonardo observed, analyzed and recorded everything he saw in meticulously illustrated notebooks. Despite producing thousands of pages of observations in his manuscripts, Leonardo never published his ideas.
He even went to great lengths to conceal his work by writing in cryptic shorthand or writing backwards. Notes on the famous Vitruvian Man are in mirror writing.
Some of his scientific notebooks still exist today. The most famous, Codex Leicester , was written on double-wide pages in his mirror writing or backward script.
He researched the workings of the human body by spending time among corpses, studying them and sketching out anatomical details. He studied birds and flight, and even invented a flying machine.
And being fascinated to the point of obsession, he even tried countless ways to fly himself. Although as far as we know, he never quite achieved it. Leonardo left thousands of notes illustrated with his sketches in what have now been put into notebooks, or codices. But out of all his drawings, paintings, experiments, and inventions, his most famous work is the Mona Lisa.
Did you know that out all the paintings Da Vinci began, he only finished 6 of them?
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