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leonardo da vinci
Vinci, Florence, in present-ay Italy
Trivia about leonardo da vinci
In 1482 he told the Duke of Milan that he could "make armored wagons to carry artillery"
In April 2008, a man successfully completed a jump using a parachute designed by this man 523 years before
His "Last Supper" in Milan was already a wreck by the end of his lifetime
For his mural "The Last Supper", he used oils instead of the watercolors of normal frescoes
c. 1490 he found that the span of a man's arms equals his height & drew a picture showing it
Drawings discovered in 1967 showed this artist invented the chain drive around 1492
Sadly, the technique he invented to paint "The Last Supper" led to its rapid deterieration
Thousands of pages of his notebooks survive; to read them you'll need a mirror because he wrote backwards
Around 1500 he sketched not only a flying machine, but a parachute
Around 1500 this artist wrote in his notebook "In life beauty perishes, but not in art"
The Andrea Doria was replaced with a ship named for this artist, followed by the Michelangelo & the Raffaello
A court painter for the Duke of Milan, he was also said to have entertained the Duke by playing the lyre
Lesser known works by this Italian master include "The Virgin Of The Rocks" & "The Adoration Of The Magi"
He began "The Adoration of the Magi" in 1481; the chick with the weird smile came later
In this Italian's "Virgin & Child with Saint Anne", both women wear smiles rather like his Mona Lisa's
In 1482 he abandoned his "Adoration of the Magi" to work as an engineer for the Duke of Milan
This artist related the human figure to geometrical figures in the famous drawing seen here
This "Mona Lisa" artist is noted for the sfumato, or smoky, quality of his paintings
In the 1490s he sketched out the chute seen here
In his notebooks this Renaissance artist claimed, "The Medici created and destroyed me"
This Renaissance man This Renaissance man etched here was born in 1452
Vasari said this Renaissance man painted the left-hand angel in Verrocchio's "Baptism of Christ"
Montreal's many underground walkways lined with shops & cafes use an idea credited to this Renaissance man
His 2nd & 3rd most famous women's portraits are "Cecilia Gallerani" & "Ginevra de' Benci"
While in Milan in the late 15th century, this artist designed locks to join the city's canals
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His drawing of the "Vitruvian Man" represented the body of the human male in perfect proportion
This artist's Virgin seen here is similar to a more famous painting by him:
Spelling errors & the mirror writing in his notebooks may suggest this artist born in 1452 had a learning disorder
The notebooks he left containing his anatomical drawings are written in mirror writing
In 1485 this Italian painted "Madonna of the Rocks", his earliest major work that survives in complete form
This Renaissance artist left Florence to serve as principal engineer for the Duke of Milan's army
Ingres' "Francis I Receives the Last Breath" of this genius represents artistic supremacy passing from Italy to France
Though neither was built, around 1500 he sketched not only a flying machine, but a parachute, too
This man was hired by the Duke of Milan because he could design cannons & war machines for the city