Leonardo Da Vinci's Accomplishments

The Italian Renaissance gave way to the rise of humanism in art, embracing the human spirit conveying messages through expressionism, mainly religious. The Renaissance emerged in the 14th century with such artist as Andrea del Verrocchio who took on Leonardo da Vinci as an apprentice. As an apprentice he prepared paints, and surface areas for Verrocchio, educating him in humanities and a range of technical skills (Adams 292). Art and architecture are visible to the human eye balanced between religion and personal expression. Leonardo da Vinci’s talents such as sketching, proportionality and spatial mechanics, linear perspective and master creator of paintings created some of the most famous paintings known to the modern world (Adams 292).

Leonardo conception wasn’t just a visualization instead an image he sketched and drawn using mathematics lending to its linear perspective. Each linear line that provides depth comes to one central point within the image which is Christ's head. Although the traced lines are hardly noticeable, they give the visual geometry needed to give depth. However, his triumph would bring tragedy due to the location within the refectory. The image is only a fraction of what it used to be, just twenty percent remains (Da Vinci). Leonardo’s use of oils on dried plaster has been susceptible to the elements, such as humidity, pollution and a time when the refectory became a stable for horses. Furthermore, his painting has been surrounded by conspiracies, hypothesis’s and myths (Mussio, 2015). A novel by Dan Brown highlights these thoughts, but there are numerous reasons why the painting is celebrated and questioned (Mussio,

Leonardo had over 13,000 pages of sketches, drawings with notations eluding to his greatness as a draftsman (Mends). Drawing led to him seeing the architecture of the human body where he dissected and analyzed the workings of its internal organs (Da Vinci). His intense studies of cadavers at the Florence monastery led to a request by Francesco del Giocondo to paint a portrait of his wife, Mona Lisa (Da Vinci). This painting of Mona Lisa would become what defined him and become the most famous painting in the world (Da