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=== LEONARDO DA VINCI ===

 Leonardo da Vinci was born 0n April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Itally just outside of Florence. Da Vinci had alot of brothers and sisters all together they were 17 of them. He first started getting involved in art around 1469 because his father had him pursue art and by his twenties he was already becoming famous and popular. The influence his father had on him was strong because at the age of 15 his father put him in workshop so that he could paint he go so good his instructor stopped painting because of how bad he felt he was. He then in search for more money went to work for the Duke Ludovico Sforza who made him work on making weapons and things of that matter. Da Vinci was good at what he did but he didnt stick to every project he did this being the case he only got about six projects done in 17 years. When he suffered from paralysis from his right hand he was still capable of teaching and drawing. The end of Leonardo Da Vinci was on May 2, 1519 in Cloux France and it is said that King Francis was at his side when he died. He believed that the artist was the perfect person to illustrate the rules of perspective and all the laws of nature.

*SAMPLE WORK*

 * [[image:davinci.jpg width="192" height="184" align="left" caption="Head of Leda (1452-1519) Milan"]] || [[image:da-vinci-drawings-skull.jpg width="206" height="194" align="right" caption="view of the skull (1489)"]] || [[image:monalisa1.jpg width="204" height="229" caption="Mona Lisa (1503-1505) Italy"]] ||  ||

*SUBJECT*
[|Leonardo Da Vinci] had many styles to his paintings, and drawings. He was a scientist, inventor, and most importantly an artist. Having said that most of his drawings are drawn in perspective and because they are drawn in perspective it makes them objective. Most of his drawings or paintings are bases on a person or self portraits of himself.

*FORM*
He started at first he was just being taught the ways of another guy but because he quickly got the hang of things he later had become even better than his mentor. He loved to draw realistically because he wanted to create a realistic way so it can show the boldness and freshness of real life. He wanted mostly focused on the religious part of life in a very figurative way. The paintings went beyond just thought because of the fact that he was a scientist. He started studying the way light and shadow in nature worked and came to the conclusion that objects were basically not just outlines but could be made three dimensional if the light and shadow were defined or used properly. What made gave his paintings the lifelike effect was the fact that he created atmosphere and depth in them. Science was very important in his art work so he used science to help him better improve his art. He studied anatomy and nature witch made his paintings look amazingly real. The human body really impressed him so he was the first artist that really went into great detail in studying and painting the physical proportions of women, children and also men, he didn’t want to fake how the body really looked like. He basically just believed that if an artist used their eyes to follow the rules of perspective and also the laws of nature you would be a great artist is you could show that in your art work.

*CONTENT*
The meaning of Leonardo’s work I would say was to always keep that realistic feel to all of his paintings and drawings. This is so because around the 15th century was when they really began to focus on realism and he also went far and beyond to try and understand what he was painting. His work was not abstract it was basically just portraits of people and drawings of the body that fascinated him. The work expresses realness and I portrays the way of life in the 15th century it is very believable witch is what Leonardo was going towards.

*CONCLUSION*
I think that Leonardo Da Vinci contributed a lot to not only the world of art but also the world of science. He has affected art by figuring out light and shadow and how it works either to make your picture more realistic or flat. His art till this day is still some what of a mystery and is being discussed world wide if that’s not an impact then I don’t know what is.

 __SOURCE:__ http://www.mos.org/leonardo/bio.htm l http://www.mos.org/leonardo/artist.html http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/vinci.html http://www.lairweb.org.nz/leonardo/