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Leonardo da Vinci

1452-1519


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Early Life

Madonna of the Rocks

Geometricalarrangement of figures

Chiaroscuro

Sfumato

Foreshortening

Backgroundtreatments

Artists live on

commissions


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Milan

Last Supper Used new fresco method

Built into the room's end

Light from the side withthe window

Door cut below

During WWII a bombhit the monastery

Destroyed by erosion


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Among all the studies and reasoning,Light chiefly delights the beholder; and

among the great features of mathematicsthe certainty of its demonstrations is whatpreeminently tends to elevate the mind ofthe investigator. Perspective, thereforemust be preferred to all the discourses

and systems of human learning.

Leonardo da Vinci


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Mona Lisa

The greatness of

the Mona LisaWhat do you see?


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"'Those [artists] who are enamoredof practice without science,'Leonardo explained, 'are like sailorswho board a ship without rudder and

compass, never having any certaintyas to whither they go.'"

Isacoff, Stuart, Temperament, Vintage Books, 2001, p. 85.


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Notebooks

Coded

Read R L with a mirror Scientific illustration

Used science to supportart


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Military


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Aeronautics


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Anatomy


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Technology

Machines

Hydraulics Vehicles on land

Architecture

Scientific method


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Those sciences are vain and filled

with errors which are not borne ofexperiment, the mother of all

certainty.

Leonardo da Vinci


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Legacy

Only 17 paintings

Notebooks Drawings of unfinished works

Diverted rivers to prevent

flooding Principles of turbine

Cartography

Submarine Flying machine

Parachute

And much more.


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Renaissance Man


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Renaissance Man

Ancient:

Plato(daVinci)

Aristotle


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Renaissance Man

Renaissance period

Leonardo daVinciMichelangelo and Raphael

Petrarch, Erasmus, Pico della Mirandola

Why were there so many Renaissance

men during the Renaissance?Lack of boundaries between disciplines

Knowledge was just knowledge


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"I don't buy the notion that the world isorganized the way universities and

companies are. Ideas don't know whatdiscipline they're in. We might kidnapthem and say, 'That's a marketing idea' or

'That's an anthropology idea.' But if youwalked up to an idea on the street, itwouldn't know about that."

Gerald Zaltman, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard,personal communication, October 2003.


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Leonardos Environment andMotivation

Earning a living (profit)

Rivalry with other artists

Scientific curiosity

Civic duty


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Michelangelo Buonarroti


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Early Life

Born outside of Florence

Apprenticed as a sculptor

Master recognized his talents


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Commissions by Medici

Lived in the

Medici palace Studied anatomy

Several pieces forthe Medici tombs,etc.


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Rome

Commissionedto do Piet


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Return to Florence

Commissioned to do

David


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David


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Return to

Rome Worked on tomb

for Julius II Sistine Chapel


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Sistine Chapel


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Sistine Chapel


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Moses

Received fundingfrom Pope Leo X

The Moses


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Legacy Worlds greatest

sculptor

See the figure inside thestone and remove excess

Painter

Mannerism

Poet

Architect Engineer


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Raphael


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Early Life

Born in Urbino

Quick learner and hard worker


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Time in Rome

Borrowed techniques from other

great artists Often sketched women and children

Architect for St. Peters Died at 37 and buried in Pantheon


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School of Athens


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School of Athens


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Madonna of the Meadow


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Legacy of Raphael

Refinement

Exemplar of the Renaissance Expertise:

Artist, archeologist, writer, philosopher,teacher


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Titian and the Venetian School

Characteristics: Vivid colors

Dynamics and dramaticmovement

Sensuality


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Renaissance Music


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Basic structure

Words dominate

Tone painting


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Texture

Middle ages:

Monophonic Renaissance:

Polyphonic Late Renaissance:

Homophonic

Harmonies based upon Pythagoras


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Musical Notation

Invented to publish books of music

Invented instruments

Instrumental arrangements appeared


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Religious Music

Natural

soundingmusic

Mass

Composersmusic had to

be screened


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Giovanni Palestrina

Adult life in Rome Choirmaster, singer,/ director of

music

Reactionary period Church suppressed music that did

not enhance words of the Mass

Polyphony was distracting

Works were conservative


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Giovanni Palestrina

Wrote over 100 masses

Gregorian chantMass in Honor of Pope Marcellus

Influenced later music Buried in St. Peters Basilica

The Prince of Music


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Secular Music

New instruments

Chansons favored in the courtCourtly Love

MadrigalsPoetry and Music


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Dances

As important as music

First considered a separate form ofart

Some courts had dance masters balli


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Thank You


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