Leonardo Da Vinci Accomplishments

What separates Leonardo Da Vinci from everyone else during the Renaissance is that he didn’t limit himself to just one field. He expanded his horizons so that he could experience and understand life to his greatest ability. He was not only an artist but also an inventor, an anatomist, a mathematician, an engineer, a musician, and a philosopher. These different fields that he explored helped him to strive in each individual field because he would apply that knowledge he would acquire from math and use it to create a beautiful piece of art that was mathematically pleasing to the eye.

He was born a bastard from an unmarried peasant girl thought to be named Caterina according to his diaries. There are no records that can tell us for sure but

This is because Catholicism was the predominant religion of his time in Italy. Although no one knows for sure if he was a religious man or not, the huge part that religion played in day to day life affected his work and the way he philosophized and theorized about how biblical stories could have taken place rather than the way they were written. The people and subjects that he painted allowed for a large area for interpretation and resulted in him taking his own views and expressed them in a way so others would be able to understand and appreciate his analyses along with the finished product.

Leonardo was not afraid to take risks when it came down to his art and his philosophy. All of the risks that were taken by Leonardo Da Vinci made a huge impact during the Renaissance and has even affected us today. If it weren’t for Leonardo we might not have ever looked at the Last Supper the way we do today. He changed the perspective and the moment that he painted so we might have never seen the reactions from the apostles at the moment of truth and never been able to witness the emotions displayed throughout their entire body of each

Leonardo Da Vinci painted the exact moment of truth, “one of you will betray me.” Then, he lined up his characters and made them face front. He wanted to focus on the dramatic reactions of each character when the truth was revealed so he painted them facing the audience. He also kept Judas in the painting rather than pushing him off in a corner alone, similar to how other artists depicted this character before. He placed Judas among the eleven innocents but put him in deep shadows with his hand hovering over the dish, both actions showing signs of his guilt. St. John is shown as one of Jesus’ men rather than a teacher’s pet. St. John is Christ’s “right hand man” instead of a little puppy dog; he is also shown with shock at the time of revelation. St. John seems to play a huge part in this piece being one of Jesus’ apostles. He was truly shocked at the fact that one of his own had betrayed Jesus. In other portrayals of this piece artists have painted St. John almost hovering over Jesus as if the only reason he was there was to protect him. Leonardo took it to the next level by painting his reaction so compelling that you can feel the hurt that St. John feels. To add on to the many changes or in the eyes of many, improvements on the