Leonardo da Vinci Research by: Jessica Canchola South Mountain Community College

Who is Leonardo da Mona Lisa Conclusions Vinci ? The The artist Leonardo da Vinci was well-known as One of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous Another of his most famous paintings was “Last one of the greatest painters. Today, he is known paintings in the world is Mona Lisa. It was Supper”. was created around Leonardo da Vinci's countless projects best for his art, which includes the Mona Lisa created between 1503 and 1519, while Leonardo 1495 to 1498. The mural is one of the best-known throughout various fields of Arts and and The Last Supper, two paintings that are still was living in Florence, and it is now located in Christian arts. The Last Supper is a Renaissance Sciences helped introduce to modern among the most famous and admired in the the Louvre Museum in Paris. The Mona Lisa's masterpiece who has survived and thrived intact society on ongoing ideas for fields such world. He was born on May 15, 1452, in a mysterious smile has enchanted dozens of over the centuries. It was commenced by Duke as anatomy or geology, demonstrating the farmhouse near the Tuscan village of Anchiano viewers, but despite extensive research by art Ludovico Sforza for the refectory of the extent to which Da Vinci had an impact. in Tuscany, Italy. Leonardo da Vinci's parents historians, the identity of the woman depicted monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, were not married when he was born. Ser Piero, in the portrait remains unknown. Many people and Leonardo painted it on a dry wall using an oil Da Vinci pioneered new concepts like his father, was a Florentine notary and landlord, believe that the Mona Lisa is a portrait of Lisa and tempera mix. He did this to resemble the look evolution, fossils, anatomy, painting, and and Caterina, his mother, was a young peasant Gherardini Giocondo, a middle-class woman of an oil painting, but it began to wear off even even flight. These concepts aided in the woman who married a craftsman shortly after. who lived in Florence, and the wife of a wealthy before he died. (“Leonardo da Vinci Last Supper”) development of essential inventions used He was an anatomist, musician, botanist, Florentine merchant named Francesco del The painting depicts a scene from Jesus Christ's daily, which represent Leonardo da Vinci's sculptor, architect, painter, and writer, as well as Giocondo. The Mona Lisa is a work of art in oil final days, as described in the Gospel of John impact on the modern world. Leonardo an engineer, scientist, and inventor. Leonardo's on canvas. It depicts a seated woman against 13:21. Jesus, surrounded by his twelve apostles, concepts were far ahead of their time. an imaginary landscape. In the portrait, a he declared that one of them will betray him. Da Vinci was a great artist and creator Throughout his life, he attempted to bring many gloomy and seemingly isolated landscape "Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray who influenced many individuals to invent of his innovations and inventions to realization. appears behind Mona Lisa. Which was created me." The image depicts each disciple's reaction things that seem to be important to us Despite receiving little formal education, such by the artist and painted with sfumato, a to what he said. (“The Last Supper by Leonardo today. He was one of the most influential as basic reading, writing, and mathematics technique that results in forms "without lines or da Vinci”) The scene shows us figures in a composers and inventors in modern guidance, his artistic talents were evident from a boundaries, in the manner of smoke or beyond rectangular room with coffers on the ceiling and history. young age. He observed everything he could out the focus plane." (“The History and Legacy of tapestries on either side. The room comes to an of nature as a scientist. Leonardo based his Leonardo da Vinci’s Mysterious ‘Mona Lisa’”) end with three windows at the end of the wall, paintings on what he learned from nature and The Mona Lisa is composed of roughly twenty through which we can see into a beautiful science in order to make them appear natural. light layers of paint, some of which are landscape setting. We can see how the landscape He drew and took detailed notes about what he extremely thin. As a result of this meticulous in the background ends in a misty, grayish saw in his surroundings. His notes were written work, the painting's surface bears no traces of horizon. In the last supper Christ is. the center backwards, most likely because he didn't want brush strokes. Despite its epic age, the Mona among the apostles, his body forms a triangle people to read or understand them. Leonardo Lisa is in relatively in a good condition. like shape that does not overlap by any apostles. was a left-handed writer, he used a method However, infrared analyses have revealed that Leonardo used one. Point linear. Perspective, known as "mirror writing" to take notes from certain pigments, particularly the brows of the making the vanishing point at Christs head. right to left, which he may have done this to Mona Lisa, have faded over time. make his notes incomprehensible to everyone but himself. He was capable of thinking, writing, and visualizing in ways never seen before. Da Figure #1 Figure #2 Vinci had a habit of constantly studying and observing, which was essential to his note- taking technique. The items he saw reinforced his universal thinking, which was a mix of art and science. Many people, on the other hand, believed he was dyslexic. Since his spelling was considered odd and erratic. He also began several projects that he never completed. These were some of the characteristics that were referred to attention deficit disorder.