I have a couple of questions about the artist known as Leonardo Da Vinci.?

Question

Ok well it's only a couple of questions of which I think some people on here could answer for me. It would be really helpful if you did. Ok so the questions are;

*What was his primary type of artwork
* What materials did he use to make his art
* Style and period of his art
* Anything interesting you might know about him

Also, dont recommend wikepedia to me because I've already looked and re-looked multiple numbers of times for this information,its not there. Thank you!

Answer 1

Oh my there is an awful lot of mis-information abound with regard to Leonardo da Vinci.

I've studied this particular artist for many years now and have also been lucky enough to have handled some of his work personally.

His primary type of artwork or media as we call it was sketching using ink, charcoal, chalk, metal point and colour washes. The quality of paper that he used varied and some studies for drapery were completed in surprisingly coarse linen. I say that the sketches are primary as there is a vast amount of them which remain compared to the handful of paintings left to us and absolutely no surviving sculptures (not that we can say with certainty anyway).

Painting media are as follow

Portrait of Genevra de Benci
Oil on poplar wood

The Annunciation
Tempera and oil on poplar wood

Saint Gerome
Oil and Tempera on walnut

Adoration of the Magi
Oil on wood

Virgin of the Rocks (Louvre)
Oil on wood transferred to canvas 1973

The Virgin of the Rocks (London)
Oil on parqueted poplar

Lady with an Ermine
Oil on walnut

The Mona Lisa
Oil on poplar

Saint John the Baptist
Oil on walnut

Collaborations include possibly;
The Baptism of Christ and Virgin and Child by Verrocchio.

NB NOT ALL WORKS ARE MENTIONED HERE and there are more attributed to this artist.

Also there was his attempts at fresco painting.

The period in which he worked was the high Renaissance and his works have aspects of realism especially with regard to the figures and thus the depictions are humanist in its broadest sense. There are aspects of his work though such as some of the landscapes which although containing recognisible landmarks are more ideal than accurate.

Well what is known about Leonardo fills volumes of books so I'll be brief.

He wasn't simply an artist (see his letter to Sforza for this) he created ariel maps for Cesare Borgia, planned cities and waterways, seige engines and armoured vehicles, dissected bodies for artistic and moreover scientific enlightenment, made theatrical props, stage sets and automatons etc.

He made several discoveries in anatomy and science but failed to publish his works therefore others got the credit. He DID NOT though invent the helicopter. His design for an aeriel screw gets confused with this machine as it is quite similar in looks.

He was probably gay, dressed beautifully and liked horses, animals and was a vegetarian. He disliked Michelangelo and was friends with Botticelli.

He was never imprisoned for his homosexuality although he was accused and aquitted of this act when he was a young man.

He liked to have the comfort of working for a patron who would pay him well whilst having the time to spend on his own interest and his only patriotic loyalty was to whoever could provide him with this.

Hope this helps.
Need any more info - don't hesitate to ask.

Answer 2

He never did. Leonardo kept the Mona Lisa picture with him until he died. His biographers think he kept adding little bits to it until then - he never considered it truly finished. He died in France, as a matter of fact. No one knows if he ever really did any self portraits - the one generally shown as being a self portrait was really not called that by him. It's just a silver point sketch of an old man. Brilliant, but who knows who it really was? Leonardo lived a very long time ago. Vasari wrote quite a bit about him, and so did Kenneth Russell. That 3.02 business is a joke. They had absolutely no way of telling if it was two minutes past the hour in those days because they had no accurate chronometers in normal households. I hope this helps.

Answer 3

Oil Paintings, like The Mona Lisa or The Virgin of the Rocks, or John the Baptist, Annunciation
Frescoes, like The Last Supper
Drawings like The Vitruvian Man
High Renaissance Period

Life span 1452-1519
Many of his inventions have finally been recreated at the Chateau Clos Luce in the Loire River Valley, a place I highly recommend anyone visit

Answer 4

Di Vinci worked in several media: sculpture, using marble and plaster; painting, using oils, charcoal, and tempera;

The style was his own. The period is obvious to all but the most ignorant... it was renaissance of course. He was also an inventor with many inventions of his still in use today.

And at your request I won't recommend wikipedia, as you would actually have to read something long and for you, probably boring... BUT I did, and every question you asked was answered there plus a plethora of other information on di Vinci's very interesting life.

Answer 5

Da Vinci painted... but he also is credited as a scientist. He invented scissors! He made plans for an airplane and a tank. He used egg tempera and experimented with other types of paint like in The Last Supper- much of it flaked off... He was alive during the Renaissance... he was gay and jailed for it- rival of Michelangelo- he helped make advances in medicine due to his drawings of cadavers- he was constantly learning- he took more than 3 yrs. to paint Mona Lisa- most famous ptg. in the world

Answer 6

Painting.
Oil Paint on Canvas
Realism- Early renaissance
He was a renaissances man. Scientist, Free Mason, Inventor, Painter, and thinker, Sculptor.

Answer 7

He didn't have a primary, which is what makes him so amazing, besides being good. He did a lot of painting, but also did sculpture, architecture, military weapons,
When painting he used pigments in oil and in tempra (egg) and painted on canvas and on fresco (damp plaster) In sculpture his work was in marble and in bronze.
He worked during the Renaissance and we could consider his work mostly classical.
He was probably gay, he wrote his notes backward and in code, he left hundreds of pages of notes.

Answer 8

Self portraits

Oil Paint

1500

He deisgned plans on technology that was unknown in his day such as helicopters, tanks, and airplanes

Answer 9

he wasn't "known" as Leonardo da Vinci, he WAS Leonardo da Vinci, you make him sound like "the artist previously known as Prince"..sheesh...
go here for research:
http://www.kausal.com/