Reference
- Leonardo da Vinci: Credo ReferenceLeonardo was the archetypal Renaissance man. He is most famous for his paintings, such as Virgin on the Rocks and Mona Lisa. Many of his works were done for the church, such as the Last Supper in the Dominican convent of Sta. Maria delle Grazie. His works introduced the style of the High Renaissance.
Streaming Media
- Da Vinci: The Lost Treasuren this program, journalist Fiona Bruce tells the story behind some of Leonardo da Vinci’s best known works, then investigates the claim of a newly discovered da Vinci masterpiece. Bruce travels to the artist’s birthplace in Tuscany and follows in his footsteps to Florence, and with the aid of curators, biographers, and art historians reveals facets of da Vinci’s life through a study of his drawings and paintings. In Paris, Bruce views the Mona Lisa and learns about the techniques Leonardo used to create it; and in New York, she is given an exclusive preview of the Salvator Mundi—thought to be lost and being filmed here for the first time. A BBC Production. (51 minutes) A BBC Production.
- Leonardo And The Mona LisaThe story of the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911 from the Louvre and how Pablo Picasso was accused if the crime. Plus the incredible tales of how many other of da Vinci's works were lost to history and had to be reclaimed.
- Leonardo da VinciA 15th-century polymath of soaring imagination and profound intellect, Leonardo da Vinci created some of the most revered works of art of all time, but his artistic endeavors sometimes seemed peripheral to his pursuits in science and engineering. Through his paintings and thousands of pages of drawings and writings, LEONARDO DA VINCI explores one of humankind’s most curious and innovative minds.
- Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci began his career around 1472 in Florence as a portrait painter. This program examines ten elements in da Vinci’s The Virgin, the Infant Jesus, and Saint Anne: darkness and light, volume and color, figure and setting, distance, proximity, movement, and rest. In this painting, Saint Anne wears her hair braided. Her eyes are lowered and she is smiling. On her knees, the Virgin Mary is shown in a low-neck dress, leaning toward the infant Jesus. The program refers to the first sketches of this painting to explore its hidden meanings. (30 minutes)
- Leonardo the WorksLeonardo da Vinci is acclaimed as the world’s favourite artist. Many TV shows and feature films have showcased this extraordinary genius but often not examined closely enough is the most crucial element of all: his art. Leonardo’s peerless paintings and drawings will be the focus of Leonardo: The Works, as EXHIBITION ON SCREEN presents every single attributed painting, in Ultra HD quality, never seen before on the big screen. Key works include The Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, Lady with an Ermine, Ginevra de’ Benci, Madonna Litta, Virgin of the Rocks, and more than a dozen others. This film also looks afresh at Leonardo’s life – his inventiveness, his sculptural skills, his military foresight and his ability to navigate the treacherous politics of the day – through the prism of his art. To be released on the 500th anniversary of his death, this is the definitive film about Leonardo: the first to truly tell the whole story.
Perspectives
The Machines of Leonardo Da Vinci and Franz Reuleaux
This fascinating book will be of as much interest to engineers as to art historians, examining as it does the evolution of machine design methodology from the Renaissance to the Age of Machines in the 19th century. It provides detailed analysis, comparing design concepts of engineers of the 15th century Renaissance and the 19th century age of machines from a workshop tradition to the rational scientific discipline used today.
The Science and Technology of Leonardo Da Vinci
A science biography that examines the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci and offers kids the opportunity to make their own designs and inventions with hands-on activities! Leonardo da Vinci is famous for the Mona Lisa and other works of art. His other claim to fame? Being an inventor! During the Renaissance, inventors and other creative thinkers designed and constructed many new things. It was a time of discovery, wonder, and exploration. And one of the people on the forefront of that awakening was Leonardo da Vinci. In The Science and Technology of Leonardo da Vinci, readers ages 9 through 12 explore the life of one of the world's most amazing minds. They discover what it might have been like to live in the fourteenth century, when work, entertainment, medicine, travel, and food were very different. They ponder the same kinds of questions that drove Leonardo to tinker and experiment endlessly, even while creating artwork that influenced entire generations who came after him. What is the inside of the body like? How might humans fly? How can geometry be used to design stronger buildings? His dedication to invention, experimentation, and art, along with his insatiable curiosity, gave the world new insight into anatomy, botany, engineering, and much more. Kids gain these same insights through hands-on STEM activities, essential questions, text-to-world connections, and links to online resources, including primary sources, that encourage readers to take a closer look at the world of the Renaissance. The Science and Technology of Leonardo da Vinci is part of a set of three Build It Science Biographies that capture the curiosity of three science revolutionaries who were able to glimpse beyond the limits of human experience and make discoveries that continue to resonate today. Other titles in this set include The Science and Technology of Ben Franklin and The Science and Technology of Marie Curie.
Learning from Leonardo
Leonardo da Vinci was a brilliant artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician, architect, inventor, and even musician-the archetypal Renaissance man. But he was also a profoundly modern man. Not only did Leonardo invent the empirical scientific method over a century before Galileo and Francis Bacon, but Capra's decade-long study of Leonardo's fabled notebooks reveals that he was a systems thinker centuries before the term was coined. At the very core of Leonardo's science, Capra argues, lies his persistent quest for understanding the nature of life. His science is a science of living forms, of qualities and patterns, radically different from the mechanistic science that emerged 200 years later. Because he saw the world as an integrated whole, Leonardo always applied concepts from one area to illuminate problems in another. His studies of the movement of water informed his ideas about how landscapes are shaped, how sap rises in plants, how air moves over a bird's wing, and how blood flows in the human body. His observations of nature enhanced his art, his drawings were integral to his scientific studies, and he brought art, science, and technology together in his beautiful and elegant mechanical and architectural designs. Capra describes seven defining characteristics of Leonardo da Vinci's genius and includes a list of over forty discoveries he made that weren't rediscovered until centuries later. Capra follows the organizational scheme Leonardo himself intended to use if he ever published his notebooks. So in a sense, this is Leonardo's science as he himself would have presented it. Obviously, we can't all be geniuses on the scale of Leonardo da Vinci. But his persistent endeavor to put life at the very center of his art, science, and design and his recognition that all natural phenomena are fundamentally interconnected and interdependent are important lessons we can learn from. By exploring the mind of the preeminent Renaissance genius, we can gain profound insights into how to address the complex challenges of the 21st century.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci is remembered as a painter, an inventor, a scientist, an engineer, and an architect. This book examines his many contributions to the intellectual climate of the Renaissance in Italy while also tracing his legacy in inventions of the modern era, including the helicopter and military tank. Beautiful reproductions of his drawings and paintings accompany clear, engaging text, while sidebars offer additional context for curious readers.
Online Resources
- Emulating Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519): the convergence of science and art in biomedical research and practice.Renaissance pertains to great revivals of learning, art and science in the 14th–16th century Europe, launching the modern times. The Renaissance mindset emphasized reason and scientific examination in Nature’s study. Raphael’s The School of Athens, 1,2 1509–11 also known as Visualization of Knowledge, communicates perfectly how Ancient Greece tutored the Italian Renaissance. Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) personally owned several books by/on Aristotle.3 Today, 500 years after dying in Francis I’s arms (Figure 1), Leonardo is celebrated as arguably the most diversely talented polymath, ever; he became a Renaissance icon through unquenchable curiosity and inventive imagination.
- Leonardo Da Vinci and the nature of "creative genius"For most questions of the sort, “Who is the best (or most) [something] in the world?,” such as “Who is the most brilliant living scientist?” or “Who is the most beautiful woman?,” polls would reveal a variety of answers and often as fervently held beliefs. Such variety of opinion is hardly surprising; choices of this sort are highly subjective ones and for most qualities or abilities, there is either no metric at all or at best a proxy metric (such as IQ for intelligence) whose adequacy is debatable.