2007-01-22 09:25:10 · 11 answers · asked by kenmel2002 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
He was a true renaissance man.
Mona Lisa, Madonna of the Rocks, cmon, Wiki it already.
2007-01-22 09:45:15 · answer #1 · answered by truthyness 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So many things. He was a scientist, architect, weapons designer, a painter and a sculptor. As a scientist he was so far ahead of his time, it wasn't even funny. He designed a glider that could actually fly. It was never built for fear of the Catholic Church and its Inquisition (if man was meant to fly, God would have given him wings, right?) But in 1969, a group of engineering students at Cal-Tech built a glider to old Leonardo's specs, and it flew! Nevertheless, Leonardo is most famous for his painting the Mona Lisa. People who don't know anything about art, or anything about him for that matter, know he painted that picture. It's a cultural icon second to none!
2007-01-22 18:47:08 · answer #2 · answered by texasjewboy12 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of da Vinci's great contributions was the development of an artistic technique called sfumato. It is a method for giving painted faces life like depth which is why the Mona Lisa was ahead of its time.
2007-01-22 18:22:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poor you! You don't know Mona Lisa ?
Additionally DA Vinci was an architect, an astronomer, an engineer and a philosopher. Is that enough ?
2007-01-23 10:27:23 · answer #4 · answered by jacquesh2001 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
da vinci was a scholar a scientist mathematition an inventor and an artist, he came up with controversial paintings that had hidden meanings almost laughing at religion, he was practically a genius and used to also dig up corpses to study the human body
2007-01-22 19:31:46 · answer #5 · answered by phantasmagoriajewellery 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Mona Lisa
his breakthrough science projects/ scientific sketches
His controversial paintings
His unparalleled talent in art
2007-01-22 17:31:37 · answer #6 · answered by Holden® [ThumbZUP] tRoLL PaTrOL 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Vitruvian Man :P
2007-01-22 17:59:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For his paintings and for this sketches of modern machines
2007-01-23 03:22:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the book...
2007-01-22 17:32:08 · answer #9 · answered by chicago cub's bat bunny 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HE DID MONALISA!
2007-01-22 17:34:56 · answer #10 · answered by Jzambales 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋