Leonardo da Vinci - a great artist, scientific engineer, poet, musician, and sculptor.

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Leonardo da Vinci April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519 Life & Inventions I would like to tell you about the great genius of Renaissance - Leonardo da Vinci. He was a great artist, scientific engineer, poet, musician, and sculptor. Perhaps there`s hardly a person in history who has ever learned so much during the lifetime. Leonardo was born on Apr. 15, 1452, near the town of Vinci, not far from Florence. When his father found out that the boy was interested in painting, he sent him to an excellent painter and teacher Andrea di Cione, known as Verrocchio. One day Leonardo painted a beautiful angel in one of his teacher's pictures. "You are a greater painter than ,- said the teacher. “I won`t paint anymore“ In few years Leonardo's father decided that he wouldn`t anymore pay to the teacher. But Leonardo stayed on his teachers helper. He stayed till he was nearly 25. Then he set out to paint for himself, first in Florence, then in Milan and Venice, and at the end of his life in France.

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Paintings Leonardo da Vinci is best remembered as the painter of the «Mona Lisa» (1503-1506) and «The Last Supper» (1495). "The Last Supper" is on the wall of a chapel in Milan. This picture had been famous long before it was finished. One of Leonardo's paintings is called "Mona Liza". It is the picture of a woman with a faint smile on her face. Now it is one of the greatest treasures of the Louvre in Paris

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Inventions and Flight The desire to fly is expressed in the many studies and drawings. His later journals contain a detailed study of the flight of birds . One design that he produced shows a helicopter to be lifted by a rotor powered by four men. While he designed a number of man powered flying machines with mechanical wings that flapped, he also designed a parachute and a light hang glider which could have .

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In Leonardo's notebooks there is an array of war machines which includes a tank to be propelled by two men powering crank shafts. Another machine, propelled by horses with a pillion rider, carries in front of it four scythes mounted on a revolving gear, turned by a shaft driven by the wheels of a cart behind the horses. Leonardo claimed to be able to create all sorts of machines both for the protection of a city and for siege. When he fled to Venice in 1499 he found employment as an engineer and devised a system of moveable barricades to protect the city from attack. Leonardo's journals include a vast number of inventions, both practical and impractical. They include musical instruments, hydraulic pumps, finned mortar shells, and a steam cannon .

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Inventions At Leonardo da Vinci had a working model: in the 15th century, he sketched a diving suit that afforded the wearer the ability to descend or ascend by deflating or inflating a “wine skin to be used to contain the breath.” The webby gloves, invented Leonardo, intended for increase in speed of swimming. Leonardo’s diver has been supplied by a flexible respiratory tube which connected its helmet to a protective floating dome on a water surface (made, preferably, from a reed with leather connections).

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Leonardo's most famous drawing, the Vitruvian Man, is a study of the proportions of the human body, linking art and science in a single work that has come to represent Renaissance Humanism.More than 1 3000 pages of notes and drawings have been found after his death in the field of science, medicine, anatomy, journals and many others . Leonardo da Vinci invention hunger to push for originality. These inventions were only reinvented around 400 years after his death in 1519. . In 1482 Leonardo went to Milan under the care of Lodoviko Sforc , who had a big army, spent a lof of money for buying the treasure of art. Introducing himself, Leonardo said, that he was a musician, military expert, weapon, military machines inventor and so on, and finally a painter. He lived in Milan till 1498. He did a lot during this period. Fransisc I, the king of France, suggested to move to France.He was given a title of “The fist king’s painter, engineer, sculptor.” Leonardo da Vinchi died 2 May 1519, his pupil Franchesco Melci saved all Leonardo’s pictures and papers all his life. However, after his death some of them were fallen, some are in museums of different towns and cities.