Leonardo Da Vinci Paintings

Leonardo Da Vinci Paintings are visual representation of his thoughts, however the thoughts have to be depicted realistically. As he said “The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane.”

Although Da vinci produced a relatively small number of paintings, many of which were unfinished, his experimentation with the form and style influenced the later generations of painters. His handling of compostions is both rhythmic and evocative. He dealt with not only the subect but also with the atmosphere of the compositions. This is what set him apart. The aura of mystery around Mona Lisa, the sense of foreboding in the Christian Painting, “The Last Supper”, can never be recreated.

Leonardo Da Vinci- the man

Da Vinci was born in the village of Anchiano, a few miles from the small town of Vinci, in Tuscany, near Florence.

He was born to a wealthy Florentine notary and a peasant woman.In the mid-1460s his family moved to Florence, where Leonardo was given the best education that Florence, a major intellectual and artistic center of Italy, could offer

To say Leonardo Da Vinci was a versatile genius would be an easy task, to enumerate his exploits in different field, would be an almost impossible task.

He concieved many scientific ideas which were way ahead of his time. Some of his notable conceptual inventions are; the helicopter,the tank, solar energy. However this wonderful concepts were not feasible in those times.

He also greatly advanced the state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy,engineering and optics.

His Vitruvian Man (a drawing) is a perfect synthesis of his knowledge of art, mathemetics, geometry and anatomy.

His notebooks and sketches gives us an insight into his great mind.