Leonardo da Vinci

1
Leonardo da Vinci

• Leonardo da Vinci the Renaissance man

By Matt D.
http//www.x-entertainment.com/messages/325.html
2
Leonardo da Vinci early life

• Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15 1452 in a
  little town about 3km away from Vinci called
  Anchiano.
• He was born at the time of the renaissance.
• Renaissance means the rebirth
• Vinci is a small city-state in Italy

lthttp//www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/WhatWhereWhen.htm
lgt.
3
Leonardos Childhood

• In Vinci Leonardo went to school.
• In school the teachers had doubts of him
  succeeding in it. (Exploring Leonardo)
• In school Leonardo learned how to read write and
  to calculate. He also learned geometry and Latin.

lthttp//http//www.kausal.com/leonardo/.htmlgt.
4
Florence, Italy

• He moved to Florence When he was about 12 years
  old.
• Was the apprentice to Andrea del Verrocchio, a
  famous Italian artist. Verrocchio taught how to
  paint, sculpt in wood, stone and clay, how to
  cast metal objects in silver and gold, and how to
  make brushes.
• Leonardo was so good by the age 2, that legend
  has it that Verrocchio would never wanted to
  touch colors next.
• When Leonardo was about 17 he left to Milan.

5
Leonardo The Artist

• Leonardo painted many important paintings for the
  Christian church.
• Like The Last supper, Baptism of Christ , and The
  Virgin and Child with St. Anne, but the most
  known was not for the church (dont know how it
  is of or for) the Mona Lisa
• There is only one painting that we know about
  that is not in a museum or a collection in
  Europe. It is the Ginevara de Benci. It hangs in
  the National Gallery in Washington. (Young
  Students Learning(1417)

lthttp//www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/WhatWhereWhen.htm
l
6
Leonardo the Inventor 1

• Leonardo was like most artist he had to change
  his occupation from art to inventions. He did
  this because he wasnt making enough money
  painting.
• Leonardo Had widespread of ideas ranging from
  weapons to bridges.
• Leonardo wanted to invent a bridge that connected
  Golden Horn to Bosporus. Engineers laughed at
  Leonardo because it was so big.
• Scientist later discovered that his idea would
  have worked.

7
Leonardo the Inventor 2

• Leonardo discovered by putting gears and levers
  at the right angle and right spot that it could
  be very useful.
• He used gears for almost all of his inventions,
  like the helicopter, crane and for the car.
• Leonardo also used gears in warfare also.
• He invented missiles, machine guns, grenades ,
  and a modern tank.

lthttp//http//www.lib.stevens-tech.edu/collection
s/davinci/inventions/index.htmlgt.
8
Leonardo the Mathematician

• Leonardo used math in all of his work. He used it
  in creating paintings be measuring distance and
  fitting all of the scene in.
• Leonardo used math the most in his inventions.
  He had to use math because if he didnt nothing
  would ever fit.

9
Leonardo the best Ninja Turtle!!!!!

• Leonardo was the best ninja turtle in the world.
• He saved everyone.

10
How Leonardo wrote

• Leonardo wrote backwards and upside down. He did
  this so he wouldnt be prosecuted by the church
  by not believing that God does everything

11
Bibliography

• Exploring Leonardo . (1997). Museum of Science,
  Boston . 19 Mar. 2003 lthttp//www.mos.org/sln/Leon
  ardo/WhatWhereWhen.htmlgt.
• Samuel C. Williams Library. (2002). Samuel C.
  Williams Library. 19 Mar. 2003 lthttp//http//www.
  lib.stevens-tech.edu/collections/davinci/invention
  s/index.htmlgt.
• Young Students Learning Library vol.12 (1990).
  Middle town Connecticut Weekly Readers Books.
• Kausal, Martin. Leonardo da Vinci. 1997. 20 Mar.
  2003 lthttp//http//www.kausal.com/leonardo/.htmlgt
  .