Da Vinci's War With Piza

tory in its war with Piza. Multiple ideas and sketches were made but Da Vinci was incapable of finishing the wall painting. Da Vinci is thought to have started working on the Mona Lisa in 1503 while in Florence. He had worked on this portrait between 1503 and 1506 and it was taken with him where he went. In the same year Da Vinci was in a group made up of artists who would decide where the statue The David, done by sculptor, Michelangelo, would be placed. Unfortunately in July of 1504 Da Vinci was notified that his father Ser Piero had passed. Due to the amount of half siblings Da Vinci had he was cheated out of any inheritance his father would have given to him. Between 1508 and 1513 Da Vinci traveled back to Milan as an architect

Also known as “The Cenacle,” this work measures about 15 by 29 feet and is the artist’s only surviving fresco. It depicts the Passover dinner during which Jesus Christ addresses the Apostles and says, “One of you shall betray me.” One of the painting’s stellar features is each Apostle’s distinct emotive expression and body language. Its composition, in which Jesus is centered among yet isolated from the Apostles, has influenced generations of painters. After leaving Milan in 1499 Da Vinci went to Florence and there he painted a series of portraits that included “La Gioconda,” a 21-by-31-inch work that’s best known today as “Mona Lisa.” Painted between approximately 1503 and 1506, the woman depicted—especially because of her mysterious slight smile—has been the subject of speculation for centuries. In the past she was often thought to be Mona Lisa Gherardini, a courtesan, but current scholarship indicates that she was Lisa del Giaconda, wife of Florentine merchant Francisco del Giocondo. Today, the portrait—the only da Vinci portrait from this period that survives—is housed at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France,

Leonardo Da Vinci’s creativity and originality expressed in his journals, drawings, sculptors, paintings, and the rest of his work prove that he is truly on the greatest minds of all time. Da Vinci as a scientist bridged the gap between the medieval methods and the more trustworthy modern approach. He had a wide range of topics that he was interested in - anatomy, zoology, botany, geology, optics, aerodynamics and hydrodynamics. Leonardo always used this method of scientific inquiry: close observation, repeated testing of the observation, and precise illustration of the subject object or phenomenon with brief explanatory notes. Da Vinci as an artist believed that artists must know more than the rules of perspective, but all the laws of nature. In addition to his great work as an artist and scientist, Da Vinci attempted to create works of science and engineering. He produced a large number of studies and depictions of plants and animals. He sought to portray the workings of horses, the movement of water, and the complexities of the human body. He drafted sketches and designs of a wide range of machines, from helicopters to tanks. Da Vinci would sometimes obtain corpses from local hospitals and partake in