Leonardo DaVinci 14521519

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Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)

• Leonardo DaVinci (known as Leonardo)
• 1452-1519
• Painter, Inventor
• Did not have any students or followers which was
  unusual at the time he lived.
• Why do you think that was unusual?

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• This is a self portrait Leonardo drew when he was
  50 years old, a few years before he died.
• What is a self-portrait?
• What can you tell about Leonardo from looking at
  this drawing?

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• When he was learning to paint, Leonardo studied
  dead bodies to learn how to improve his painting.
  He thought that if he knew how things looked on
  the inside he could draw them better on the
  outside.

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• He would go to the morgue with a notebook and
  draw what he saw.
• Consider this page from one of his notebooks.
  What do you notice?
• How do you think this exploration might have
  helped his painting?

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• Can you see how studying the human body from the
  inside helped him?
• Notice the details in the body of baby Jesus.
  What do you see?
• Notice Marys hands. What do you see?

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• Compare these paintings of Madonna and Child by
  Leonardo on the left and Giotto on the right.
• How are they similar? How are they different?

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• Leonardo was more interested in experimenting
  with painting than in the actual completion of
  the work.
• This is one of his most famous paintings and he
  didnt even finish it!

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• What do you see in this picture?
• Pay attention to the action in the foreground.
  
• What do you see in the background?
• What do you think Leonardo was thinking about
  when he painted this picture?

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• These are portraits of three different women that
  Leonardo painted.
• How do you think each one is feeling? Why?
• What else do you notice about these paintings?

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• Leonardo used a technique called sfumato, which
  is a smudging of the edges of the object in the
  front with the background.
• Where do you see the sfumato? Why do you think
  he used this technique?

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• What do you like about Leonardos paintings?
  Why?
• What dont you like about Leonardos paintings?
  Why?