Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the most important names of the Renaissance. He was a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scholar, born at Vinci, Florence in 1452 and died in 1519. His works included painting, architecture, the elements of mechanics, and human anatomy, which he recorded in notebooks with illustrations. These studied and sketches were collected into different codices and manuscripts. The illusrations, technical drawings and the unusual page layouts of Leonardo Da Vinci are beautiful...

Examples from his notebook,




Here is a video that you can watch some of his very important paintings

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