The History of Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy. He later on died on May 2, 1519 in Amboise, France.His primary type of artwork is drawing, sculpture, and painting. The material he used were oils, pigment, and bristle brushes. The period of art he was from was the High Renaissance time. The High Renaissance is the period of visual art in Italy and it a period traditionally taken to begin in the 1490s.
Leonardo da Vinci wasn’t just a good artist he was an inventor, scientist, engineer, writer,etc. He also became an expert in the anatomy of the human body. Leonardo da Vinci was the first to explain why the sky is blue. In the painting Mona Lisa it was a theory that her smile meant she was pregnant. There were many great artist in the High Renaissance period including Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian. They were all born in Italy and part of the High Renaissance period.They all uses the same can of texture and styles. There painting resemble something, and it conveys a message. Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were both sculptors painters. The difference of their painting is that they focused on different set of things and how they do their landscapes, and convey their
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The subject matter of this painting is it the ancient roman architect it was based on the ideal of geometric proportions in architecture outline. The genres is that it is a portrait of sculpture of a person. The style of the Vitruvian Man is artwork of realistic it real as possible the style is the beauty of the human figure. The Vitruvian Man painting has many lines. The techniques Leonardo used was illusion of mystery and somber. In the Vitruvian Man he used few colors. The use of design he used was an implied symbol of an symmetry of the human body. The message Leonardo da Vinci was trying to say in the painting of Vitruvian Man was the human body is perfect and