Tuesday 1 December 2009


Leonardo da Vinci was born the 15th of April 1452 in Italy, and he was dead the 2nd of May 1519. Leonardo da Vinci was an architect, sculptor, inventor, musician, engineer and a painter. He was a Renacentist, an Humanist considered one of the greatest painters of all time in the history. Leonardo was spent the longest period of his life (nearly 20 years) in Milan, and then returned for shorter periods in futures years. He was honored with the title of First Painter, architect and mechanic of the king and a pension of 5,000 crowns. Leonardo da Vinci, painted the picture of “Mona Lisa” or “Gioconda” , and this picture is very famous because Leonardo applied his famous invention, the “sfumato”, and he gets this ambiguity in the smile and look of the girl. Another paintings are The Last Supper, Vitruvian Man, etc, and related to the military engineering, the foundry and assembly of the big guns.


I chose Leonardo da Vinci because I think that he was a great inventor of gadgets that we use nowadays, for example the parachute, the bicycle, etc. His painting was very famous in the world because he paints "Mona Lisa", a painting that doesn’t express the happiness but doesn’t express the sadness, and the look of the girl was impressive. I think making all this in a painting, the expresion and he look, was very dificult and he did it.

Maria

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