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August 11, 2019 - July 6, 2022
Piero’s
Leonardo's father
Cosimo de’ Medici?
Perio's employer
Albeira
Leonardo's step mother
Francesca Lanfredini,
New mother
Verrocchio.
Peiro's friend
Apprentices would begin by preparing canvases; this was an art in itself as it had to be done in a precise way. The paint used in the 1400s was egg-based tempera, with colors ground by hand. This was another job for the apprentices. Brushes were created out of animal hairs and stuck into wooden handles.
1400 color preparation
Pietro Perugino,
Verrochio's student who painted The Delivery of the Keys
Sistine Chapel.
Who painted The Birth of Venus
Lorenzo di Credi,
Leonardo closest friend
1472, when Leonardo was 20 years old, his apprenticeship was over. He registered in the Guild of Painters in Florence.
Leonardo become a master painter
Salaì and Melzi, and it seems he kept most of his
Leonardo student
Salaì remained in Leonardo’s household for the next 30 years. At the time of his death in 1524, Salaì was the owner of the Mona Lisa.
Monalisa owner
Leonardo sketched war machines, pictures such as a war chariot with scythe blades mounted on both sides, to resemble a winged weapon; an armored tank which was propelled by two men cranking a shaft; and also a giant crossbow which required a number of men to operate. This resume of sorts certainly worked its charms, because Leonardo would come to stay in Milan for 17 years in the duke’s employ.
Leonardo went to Milan under Dukes employee
he often never finished what he started.
Leonardos main problem
Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man is used to show the symmetry of not only the human body but of the universe as a whole. The arm and leg positions create sixteen different poses. The pose of the figure with his arms out and his legs together seems to be drawn in the square, while the “spread-eagle” position is seen as drawn in the circle. All of the notes on the page are in mirror-image.
Vitruvian man
