2006-11-14 03:30:36 · 7 answers · asked by rayhands94 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
He really wasnt secretive just for being secretive. He liked being alone As oppositte of michelangelo. So better to be alone working than with twenty or more disciples being around asking things. And he had ideas specially for cooking and war purposes. One of his works that brought fame was as an orchestrator of parties. So he had to keep some secrets in order to be contracted more and more. Also psychologie can help
2006-11-14 03:39:10 · answer #1 · answered by Carlos G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Da Vinci was secretive - ie using mirrored handwriting for example - as he was a Renaissance Humanist and probably feared the wrath of the Catholic Church given some of the things he investigated and the methods he used. Human dissection for example was forbidden by the Church. He managed to study human anatomy with the help of a sympathetic cleric. As for his secrets - a lot of them we shall never know. Representatives of the Church acquired some of his papers after his death and destroyed many of his notebooks.
2006-11-14 15:10:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of Da Vinci's "secrets" was that he removed fresh corpses from their graves and used them to learn about anatomy. This was taboo in his time and just plain gross now - imagine no embalming. His theories and ideas were also not popular with the Church. The Church (meaning the Papacy) tortured, excommunicated and generally made life miserable for those miscreants who dared disagree with them. It was in Da Vinci's best interest to keep his secrets.
2006-11-14 12:39:28 · answer #3 · answered by Susan G 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
During the renaissance, there was a small group of people,artists, teachers, and "free thinkers", that got together to discuss their theories and findings. These people usually met in Lorenzo Medici's home in Florence, Italy. The reigning pope considered these people dangerous to the state, but on the other hand, needed these creative geniuses for their own purposes. Michelangelo, and Da-Vinci were two of these men. they met in relative secrecy to keep from being thrown into prison, or worse, ex-communicated from the Catholic church. (their works of art were often deemed offensive to God). I guess the most prominent secrets of Da-Vinci were his mathematical equations and the fact that he studied anatomy, which was proscribed at that time.
2006-11-14 12:05:20 · answer #4 · answered by boots 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He invented a great deal of machinery, like, for example, a machine gun and a tank-like vehicle, that must have seemed like the devil's work to his contemporaries. I guess it was out of self-protection that he kept certain things a secret, but also to protect his inventions from being used by malevolent people.
Please don't think he had actual secrets like they are suggested in "The Da Vinci Code"... that's just fiction.
2006-11-14 11:41:12 · answer #5 · answered by lindavankerkhof 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The freethinkers were usually excommunicatted, imprisoned or burned at the stake. I'd be keeping secrets too in that polical church-run environment.
2006-11-14 12:20:49 · answer #6 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
ask Dan Brown,he knows best,since he has published his book,
Da Vinci is the talk of the town,we forget the he is of of the greatist artists ever lived.
2006-11-14 12:14:58 · answer #7 · answered by asso 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋