Within The Mastermind: How Leonardo Da Vinci Birthed The World Of Today

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His correlation between man and universe has enlightened the modern studies of medicine and machine for centuries. His prized work of the human body according to the mind of Leonardo De Vinci's Vitruvian Man has become a world-renowned icon. It is important to preserve Vitruvian Man for the preservation of humanity, the workings of the human body, as an analogy of the workings of the universe, according to genius. Leonardo de Vinci grew up a brilliant man in an era of distinctive separations between establishing the art of the Late Gothic, Early Renaissance, and High Renaissance. The time around 1400-1525, was the revolution of many artist and the development of a profound genius of the day.

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Mathematical Order in the Artwork of Leonardo Da Vinci A large portion of the Italian Renaissance was an obsession with finding order in everything in the universe. Its primary actors sought to show nature as orderly and fundamentally simple. Leonardo Da Vinci, the epitome of the Renaissance Man, was not the first to apply these ideas of geometric order and patterns to art, but he may be the most well known. Da Vinci used mathematical concepts like linear perspective, proportion and geometry in much of his artwork. Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, a town 50 kilometers west of Florence in what is now Italy.

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It is now held in the magnificent collection of the Biblioteca Reale in Turin. The Inventions of da Vinci Da Vinci’s curiosity and interest in scientific observation began with his uncle, Francesco. He also took after his Grandfather by keeping journals, in which he recorded everything (Wikipedia). He had no formal education to teach him, meaning he was a pure genius. He invented things that were so far ahead of their time, that they would not be reinvented for up to four hundred or sometimes almost five hundred years later.

Leonardo da Vinci, one of the most famous and acclaimed painters of all times was more than a painter. He was a genius, who not only was notably advanced for his time, but also was recognized one of the greatest polymaths of all time. Leonardo’s intellectual capacity surpassed most of the men of his time. Leonardo da Vinci was not only a man who was influenced by the Renaissance, he was the man who influenced and shaped the Renaissance with his paintings and observations. The Renaissance period is indebted to Leonardo da Vinci for defining its culture and embodying the portrait of what we have come to associate as the humanist Italian Renaissance.

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His interest in science, and how he used his knowledge will be discussed. Herein subjects of interest to da Vinci are also included. An Extremely Famous Artist, Scientist too? Leonardo da Vinci, perhaps that name brings to mind the Mona Lisa, or maybe The Last Supper, or possibly even Vitruvian Man. Although he is known more prominently as the greatest artist who ever lived da Vinci was a polymath, a man of many skills most of which are shadowed by the popularity of his works of art.

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