Leonardo Da Vinci is known for being an intelligent man who not only loved art, but also was interested in science, architecture, and inventing and discovering the new. Leonardo Da Vinci had several values that contributed to his lifetime of creativity, he was artistic, scientific, and always had the desire to invent and discover new things. Leonardo Da Vinci was an amazing artist, and created some of the most well-known creations of the Renaissance. One of Leonardo Da Vinci’s most famous pieces is the Mona Lisa because of the different aspects that it portrays. Leonardo strengthened the effect by creating an astonishing sense of the textures in the painting. By applying his legendary sfumato (the technique of allowing tones and colors to …show more content…
Da Vinci used his notebooks and sketches to sketch his ideas on engineering. His schemes and sketches for canals and the geography of towns are incredible (M. Jourdain, 289). His notebooks bear witness to the intelligent and strenuous concentration of his mind upon the questions of science, physics, and engineering that he had set before himself, to his patient and diverse business, showing the ordered continual range of his effort (M. Jourdain, 282). Da Vinci formed multiple new inventions for the military, also for warfare that contributed greatly to him being an example of a true renaissance man. He, as a military engineer, proved that he did in fact explore the configuration and the uses of engines of warfare (M. Jourdain, 289). His devices and designs for hydromechanical work and for warlike instruments, were not within the restrictions of conceivable construction during the Renaissance (M. Jourdain, …show more content…
Da Vinci’s inventions were long coming, but he was able to create new ideas despite the conflicts that arose. His true, although less known achievements subsisted of inventions of certain ingenious mechanism, such as the diving-bell and the lifebelt, and in the application of a the scientific method. His discovery of the significant fossils found in the mountain ridges of Lombardy as proof the waters at one time covered the earth (M. Jourdain, 284). If one would desire outstanding work, such that it will be acknowledged and appreciated by all the world, the ability to create such work, is very difficult, and yet, Leonardo strived and succeeded (Canale,