Leonardo Da Vinci- Renaissance Painter Flashcards
Apprenticed to a florentine artist when he was __ years old.
15
What technique did Da Vinci create, and in which painting is it evident?
Sfumato, Mona Lisa
After a war happened in Florence where did Leonardo go? What did he do there?
Moved to Milan
Painted the last supper
What was wrong with Leonardo’s fresco, The Last Supper?
He tried out a new paint-making technique and the paint immediately began to peel off
Who was Leonardo’s Patron in Milan?
What did he ask da Vinci to do?
Invent war machines
Eg. Tank, canon, artillery
In Milan, Leonardo invented loads more things, why were they not built? Can you name them?
Helicopters, submarines, parachutes
They didn’t recieve funding from the Duke of Sforza because they were not war weapons
How many bodies did he dissect?
30+
Describe his notebooks-
- wire ten from right to left/mirror writing
- sketches of people on the street
- 5,000 pages on botany, geology and engineering
Discovers in biology?
- age of tree via rings
- how rocks are formed
- animal and human anatomy
Why did Leonardo leave Milan? Where did he go?
French ar,y captured Milan
Went to Florence+Rome, not wanted, not new hip cool artist
Got hired by the King of France
What happened in France?
Leonardo worked for three years
Then died 1519
Birth-death?
1452-1519
Leonardo was born ____ AD in _______near ______
- 1452
- Vinci, near Florence,
