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LEONARDO da Vinci Italian High Renaissance Painter and Inventor, 1452-1519
Italian High Renaissance Painter and Inventor, 1452-1519 Florentine Renaissance man, genius, artist in all media, architect, military engineer. Possibly the most brilliantly creative man in European history, he advertised himself, first of all, as a military engineer. In a famous letter dated about 1481 to Ludovico Sforza, of which a copy survives in the Codice Atlantico in Milan, Leonardo asks for employment in that capacity. He had plans for bridges, very light and strong, and plans for destroying those of the enemy. He knew how to cut off water to besieged fortifications, and how to construct bridges, mantlets, scaling ladders, and other instruments. He designed cannon, very convenient and easy of transport, designed to fire small stones, almost in the manner of hail??grape- or case-shot (see ammunition, artillery). He offered cannon of very beautiful and useful shapes, quite different from those in common use and, where it is not possible to employ cannon ?? catapults, mangonels and trabocchi and other engines of wonderful efficacy not in general use. And he said he made armoured cars, safe and unassailable, which will enter the serried ranks of the enemy with their artillery ?? and behind them the infantry will be able to follow quite unharmed, and without any opposition. He also offered to design ships which can resist the fire of all the heaviest cannon, and powder and smoke. The large number of surviving drawings and notes on military art show that Leonardo claims were not without foundation, although most date from after the Sforza letter. Most of the drawings, including giant crossbows (see bows), appear to be improvements on existing machines rather than new inventions. One exception is the drawing of a tank dating from 1485-8 now in the British Museum??a flattened cone, propelled from inside by crankshafts, firing guns. Another design in the British Museum, for a machine with scythes revolving in the horizontal plane, dismembering bodies as it goes, is gruesomely fanciful. Most of the other drawings are in the Codice Atlantico in Milan but some are in the Royal Libraries at Windsor and Turin, in Venice, or the Louvre and the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Two ingenious machines for continuously firing arrows, machine-gun style, powered by a treadmill are shown in the Codice Atlantico. A number of other sketches of bridges, water pumps, and canals could be for military or civil purposes: dual use technology. Leonardo lived at a time when the first artillery fortifications were appearing and the Codice Atlantico contains sketches of ingenious fortifications combining bastions, round towers, and truncated cones. Models constructed from the drawings and photographed in Calvi works reveal forts which would have looked strikingly modern in the 19th century, and might even feature in science fiction films today. On 18 August 1502 Cesare Borgia appointed Leonardo as his Military Engineer General, although no known building by Leonardo exists. Leonardo was also fascinated by flight. Thirteen pages with drawings for man-powered aeroplanes survive and there is one design for a helicoidal helicopter. Leonardo later realized the inadequacy of the power a man could generate and turned his attention to aerofoils. Had his enormous abilities been concentrated on one thing, he might have invented the modern glider. |
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LEONARDO da Vinci Study fur the adoration of the Konige mk137
ca. 1480 feathers and ink 27.5x18cm Wallraf-Richartz museum, Koln
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LEONARDO da Vinci Six studies fur naked or clothed men mk137
ca. 1480 feathers and ink 27.7x21cm muse you Louvre, Paris
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LEONARDO da Vinci Studies fur the adoration of the Konige mk137
ca. 1481 feathers and ink uber metal pencil uf paper 21.3x15.2cm
Bonnat museum, Bayonne
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LEONARDO da Vinci Studies fur the adoration of the Konige mk137
ca. 1480 feathers and ink 16.6x26.5cm The British museum London
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LEONARDO da Vinci The adoration of the Konige mk137
1481-1482 yellow Ocker and brown ink on wood chalkboard 246x243cm Galleria degli
Uffizi, Florence
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LEONARDO da Vinci Holy Hieronymus mk137
1482 Tempera and oil on wood chalkboard 103x75cm Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome
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LEONARDO da Vinci Landscape in the Arnotal mk137
1473 feathers and ink 19x28.5cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
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LEONARDO da Vinci Plan fur a canal to the evasion of the Arno mk137
1503-1504 feather and ink Uber of black chalk 33.5x48.2cm Royal
Library, Windsor Castle.
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LEONARDO da Vinci A rock gorge mk137
ca. 1494 feathers and ink on paper 22x15.8cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle.
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LEONARDO da Vinci Portrat of Isabella d-Este mk137
1500 black chalk with traces of Rotel in the hair and in the skin and Hohungen in bubble yellow in the dress
61x46cm muse you Louvre, Paris
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LEONARDO da Vinci Raffaello Sanzio named Raffael Portrat of Lorenzo de Medici mk137
1518 oils on linen collection Ira Spanierman New York
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LEONARDO da Vinci Portrat of a musician mk137
ca. 1485 oils on wood chalkboard 43x31cm Pinacoteca Ambrosiana. Milan
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LEONARDO da Vinci Study fur the Sforza-Reiterstandbild mk137
ca.1485-1490 charcoal and metal pencil Royal Library, Windsor Castle
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LEONARDO da Vinci Studies of horses mk137
1493-1494 metal pencil 21.2x16cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
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LEONARDO da Vinci Study fur the Sforza-Reiterstandbild mk137
ca.1485-1490 metal pencil on blue prepared paper 11.6x10.3cm Royal
Library, Windsor Castle
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LEONARDO da Vinci Study of the proportion of horses mk137
ca.1481-1482 metal pencil 22x11cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
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LEONARDO da Vinci Study fur the Trivulzio-monument mk137
1508-1511Feder and ink uber of black chalk 15.2x14.5cm Royal Library, Windsor
Castle
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LEONARDO da Vinci Study Fur the Trivulzio-monument mk137
1508-1511 black chalk on paper 20x12.4cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
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LEONARDO da Vinci Madonna in the rock grottos mk137
1491-1508 oils on wood chalkboard 189.5x120cm The nationally Gallery, London
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LEONARDO da Vinci Knieened figure in Draperie mk137
ca. 1490 brushes black ink and grey India ink 21.2x15.9cm Royal Library, Windsor
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LEONARDO da Vinci
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Italian High Renaissance Painter and Inventor, 1452-1519
Italian High Renaissance Painter and Inventor, 1452-1519 Florentine Renaissance man, genius, artist in all media, architect, military engineer. Possibly the most brilliantly creative man in European history, he advertised himself, first of all, as a military engineer. In a famous letter dated about 1481 to Ludovico Sforza, of which a copy survives in the Codice Atlantico in Milan, Leonardo asks for employment in that capacity. He had plans for bridges, very light and strong, and plans for destroying those of the enemy. He knew how to cut off water to besieged fortifications, and how to construct bridges, mantlets, scaling ladders, and other instruments. He designed cannon, very convenient and easy of transport, designed to fire small stones, almost in the manner of hail??grape- or case-shot (see ammunition, artillery). He offered cannon of very beautiful and useful shapes, quite different from those in common use and, where it is not possible to employ cannon ?? catapults, mangonels and trabocchi and other engines of wonderful efficacy not in general use. And he said he made armoured cars, safe and unassailable, which will enter the serried ranks of the enemy with their artillery ?? and behind them the infantry will be able to follow quite unharmed, and without any opposition. He also offered to design ships which can resist the fire of all the heaviest cannon, and powder and smoke. The large number of surviving drawings and notes on military art show that Leonardo claims were not without foundation, although most date from after the Sforza letter. Most of the drawings, including giant crossbows (see bows), appear to be improvements on existing machines rather than new inventions. One exception is the drawing of a tank dating from 1485-8 now in the British Museum??a flattened cone, propelled from inside by crankshafts, firing guns. Another design in the British Museum, for a machine with scythes revolving in the horizontal plane, dismembering bodies as it goes, is gruesomely fanciful. Most of the other drawings are in the Codice Atlantico in Milan but some are in the Royal Libraries at Windsor and Turin, in Venice, or the Louvre and the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Two ingenious machines for continuously firing arrows, machine-gun style, powered by a treadmill are shown in the Codice Atlantico. A number of other sketches of bridges, water pumps, and canals could be for military or civil purposes: dual use technology. Leonardo lived at a time when the first artillery fortifications were appearing and the Codice Atlantico contains sketches of ingenious fortifications combining bastions, round towers, and truncated cones. Models constructed from the drawings and photographed in Calvi works reveal forts which would have looked strikingly modern in the 19th century, and might even feature in science fiction films today. On 18 August 1502 Cesare Borgia appointed Leonardo as his Military Engineer General, although no known building by Leonardo exists. Leonardo was also fascinated by flight. Thirteen pages with drawings for man-powered aeroplanes survive and there is one design for a helicoidal helicopter. Leonardo later realized the inadequacy of the power a man could generate and turned his attention to aerofoils. Had his enormous abilities been concentrated on one thing, he might have invented the modern glider.
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