Personal Life:
The birth of this genius was in 1452 at third hour of night. He was the out of wedlock child of wealthy Piero da Vinci (notary) and Caterina (peasant) in the Vinci town of Florence. His basic art training was from the famous art city Florence. At the age of 15 he became an apprentice to promising & talented artist Andrea del Verrocchio.
At the age of 24 he became master of his work, but unfortunately he was accused in the sodomy scandal along three other young men. This kind of homosexual interaction with Jacopo Saltarelli was considered as a criminal offense at that time in Florence. But, the charges were dismissed due to lack of evidence.
Important Facts:
- His paintings of people and objects was the result of complete understanding.
- He completely understands and studied the things before their structure.
- In the past hundred years, he worked in a similar manner of the slow motion act on camera in order to explain the birds fly and various other formations.
- One can feel specific emotions in his portraits.
- This versatile genius was famed as a key figure in history with the begun of a cultural movement in Italy along the portrait of Mona Lisa & religious art The Last Supper.
Technique In Paintings: He used the specific formats like-
Sfumato: Sfumato means smoke like when the colors of painting slowly turn into light to dark tone and provide a smoky mystery to painting art. In this technique tones and shades of colors gradually meets one another, so the picture gets beautiful outline.
Chiaroscuro: It is a beautiful treatment of light and shadow in painting where a viewer can feel this light to dark contrast. Leonardo da Vinci offered natural tone to his paintings along the mixture of green, brown and black colors.
Major Contributions:
- Best known Mona Lisa & Ginevra de Benci along its 3D quality.
- The highly ranked and famous Religious picture ever The Last Supper & The Baptism of Christ.
- Work on huge engineering projects like diverting the course of the River Arno, a parabolic compass, suggestion of aerial screw for helicopter, Cannons, Walking on water, Model of Parachute, design of Golden Horn Bridge.
- Painted a Giant War Mural and the Battle of Anghiari.
- Work on mirrors and self portrait.
- Major invention of viola organist, a musical instrument.
- Work of wise philosopher.
- The great scientific mind work on natural processes through inventions & excellent ideas.
- He was also scientifically observed bird's flight.
Major Interest In Scientific Area:
- Italian polymath who had the ability and knowledge of drawing complex bodies on a structural basis in order to solve their specific problems.
- This great observer formulated some scientific laws and played a major role in science.
- Study of human anatomy, especially proportion of head, human skeleton, backbone, internal organs, scientific representation of fetus, circulation and several other comparative studies.
- His studies of geology, anatomy, botany, astronomy, geometry, optics and several scientific plannings provided the base to hundreds of inventions.
He was renowned as a Renaissance man, a person full of abilities, whether it is a task of new ideas, thoughts or exploration. There is no evident of Leonardo marriage, any relation with women and children. But, he was famed as a supporter and guide of various pupil, especially a person's name ‘Salai' stayed with him more than 20 years and he was appearing in his sketchbooks.