Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance Man, Artist, Inventor, Genius: Educational Posters, Books, DVD/Video, Links for Learning
for the visual arts, language arts and social studies classrooms, home schoolers, da Vinci scholars.

Leonardo da Vinci educational posters of Renaissance Man, artist, inventor, and genius. Leonardo da Vinci include images in the Masterworks of Art educational poster series, Mona Lisa (La Giaconda), Vitruvian Man, Self Portrait, the Last Supper and the composite poster the Genius of Leonardo da Vinci.

	• LEONARDO DA VINCI POSTERS History of Art
	Ginevra De' Benci, Leonardo da Vinci, Masterworks of Art Education Poster Leonardo da Vinci - Ginevra De’ Benci About the Artist: Leonardo da Vinci many have been one of the greatest geniuses who ever lived. Not only was he a fine painter, he was also skilled at science, music, mathematics, architecture, and many other fields. Leonardo lived in Italy from 1452 to 1519, during the Renaissance – a time of great discovery in the arts and sciences in Europe. Years ahead of his time, Leonardo sketched plans for flying machines, a machine gun, and even a helicopter. Because of his many achievements, Leonardo has come to be the main symbol of the Italian Renaissance. Leonardo's most famous painting is the "Mona Lisa" a picture of a dark-haired young woman with a very mysterious smile. About the Portrait: This painting, a portrait of a young woman named Ginevra De' Benci, one of Leonardo's earliest paintings, is less well known the the "Mona Lisa." The name Ginevra means "juniper". That is why Leonardo painted the spiky dark leaves of a juniper tree behind her. There is a mystery about this painting. Experts think its strange square shape may mean that the bottom of the painting was cut off. They think there may once have been a bottom strip that shaowed Ginevra's hands and more of her dress. Perhaps Leonardo didn't like that part and cut it off himself. No one will ever know for sure.
	• more Masterworks of Art posters
		Mona Lisa Fine-Art Print by Leonardo Da Vinci available at- Art.com AllPosters.com barewalls.com
		Vitruvian Man Fine-Art Print by Leonardo Da Vinci available at- Art.com AllPosters.com barewalls.com • more anatomy posters • Proportions of Man with Occult Numbers print
		Autoritratto Fine-Art Print by Leonardo Da Vinci available at- Art.com AllPosters.com barewalls.com • Who Am I? Lesson Plan Ideas
	The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci, Art Print "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci is the most famous representation of the last meal Jesus shared with his Apostles during Passover and before the Crucifiction is painted on the wall in the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. The Christian ceremonies of the Eucharist and Holy Communion are based on the sharing of bread and wine as depicted by Da Vinci ; the painting is also an innovation in point of view, perspective, and is said to be the first art to authentically represent human reactions and emotions.
		Leonardo da Vinci Sketch for Helicopter available at- barewalls.com • more aviation posters
		Sketch of a Square Church with Central Dome and Minaret, Leonardo da Vinci, Giclee Print available at- AllPosters.com Art.com • more architecture posters
	Page from the Codex Leicester: Science of Waves Giclee Print In 1717 Thomas Coke, later the 1st Earl of Leicester, purchased a collection of scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci that became known as the Codex Leicester. The Codex was most recently acquired by Bill Gates for $30.8 million in 1994. [see Wikipedia]
		Genius of Leonardo da Vinci poster available at- Art.com AllPosters.com
		What is Love? Wall Poster available at- Art.com One of the quotes on poster- "The greater the man's soul, the deeper he loves." - LEONARDO DAVINCI • more Valentine posters
		Simplicity Poster, "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Leonardo da Vinci available at- AllPosters.com Art.com
	This font set faithfully captures Leonardo’s remarkable imagination and includes an exclusive Da Vinci Backwards font (reflecting the artist’s own unique style of handwriting). The 72 extras included are drawn from Leonardo’s sketchbooks and journals. Mac/Window/Postscript/Truetype

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” Leonardo da Vinci, b. 4-15-1452, d. 5-2-1519

Leonardo da Vinci, the epitome of the Renaissance man, was born in 1452, in Vinci, a village near Florence, Italy, and was brought up by his grandfather. At the age of 15 Leonardo entered Verrocchio's studio, and in the same year became a member of the Painter's Guild. He collaborated with Verrocchio for several years, on paintings and working on individual commissions of his own. In 1478 he became an independent artist under the protection of Lorenzo the Magnificent. In 1482 Leonardo left Florence for Milan, where he stayed for nearly twenty years. He was attached to the court of Lodovico Sforza and applied his talent to music, decorating, pageantry, portrait painting, and engineering projects, particularly of weapons for war and bridge construction. In 1500 Florence was once again his home, but he traveled widely particularly in 1502-03, when he inspected and constructed rural fortifications for Cesare Borgia. During this period he painted the Mona Lisa and worked on dissection of corpses at the hospital and on theoretical mathematical problems. Leonardo returned to Milan in 1506 and was welcomed by the French governor, Charles d'Amboise. He was sixty-one in 1513 when he entered the service of Giuliano de'Medici, brother of Pope Leo X. Leonardo applied his talents to architectural and engineering projects and continued his notes for his famous Treatise on Painting. François I of France invited him to Amboise in 1517, and Leonardo lived in the small chäteau of Cloux, enjoying great honor and the esteem of the kind and the court. He died there in 1519 and was buried in the Church of St. Florentin, which was destroyed during the French Revolution. Leonardo's knowledge extended to such widely separated fields as philosophy, natural history, anatomy, biology, medicine, optics, acoustics, astronomy, botany, geology, flight science, mathematics, hydraulics, warfare, and the arts. His heavily illustrated notebooks are among the most fascinating documents in the world, not only for his experimental ideas and inventions, but also for his accurate anticipation of a world that would exist long after his death. For Leonardo, painting was but one of many media for communicating ideas, but it was the supreme one for expressing spiritual values. His color was warm and the landscapes behind his portrait heads or religious scenes are enveloped in a fine mist. This sfumato, a delicate gradation of light imparting an atmospheric effect, gives a three-dimensional quality to the foreground figures. The most difficult and highest aim of painting, Leonardo wrote in his notebooks, is to depict "the intention of man's soul."

Books & DVD/Video about Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo on Painting: An Anthology of Writings by Leonardo Da Vinci With a Selection of Documents Relating to His Career As an Artist - aims to bring order into the chaos of Leonardo’s 1651 Treatise on Painting; an invaluable reference work for art historians as well as anyone interested in the mind and methods of one of the world’s creative geniuses.

Leonardo Da Vinci (An Abrams First Impressions Book) by Richard McLabathan - Leonardo’s life told in a fresh, anecdotal style beginning with Leonardo’s boyhood to ducal palaces, the papal court, and from his teacher’s workshop to the world’s leading museums. 56 illustrations, including 32 in full color. Youth.

Leonardo: The Artist and the Man by Serge Bramly - biography reveals Leonardo to be as complicated, seductive, and profoundly sympathetic as the figures he painted. Bramly spent five years gathering evidence to reconstruct Leonardo’s life - from his early years as an illegitimate child to his death in the arms of the King of France. Four pages of color photographs; 75 B&W photos.

Inventing Leonardo by A. Richard Turner - As he examines the changing views of Leonardo since the sixteenth century, A. Richard Turner both gives the reader a cultural history in brief of western Europe during this period and provides a context for examining Leonardo's relevance to our own ways of perceiving and interpreting the world.

How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci by Michael Gelb - Here’s a personal growth guidebook called “a brilliant, practical guide to awakening and training our vast, unused resources of intelligence and ability.” Seven critical principles are discussed in relation to what da Vinci accomplished, that need to be followed for success in any endeavor:

• Curiosita: An insatiably curious approach to life.
• Dimonstratzione: A commitment to test knowledge through experience.
• Sensazione: The continual refinement of the senses, especially sight, as the means to clarify experience.
• Sfumato: A willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox, and uncertainty.
• Arte/Scienza: The development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination (“whole-brain thinking”).
• Corporalita: The cultivation of ambidexterity, fitness, and poise.
• Connessione: A recognition and appreciation for the connectedness of all things and phenomena; “systems thinking.”

Leonardo on the Human Body - clear reproductions of over 1200 anatomical drawings.

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown -a masterful, intelligent and lucid thriller that marries the gusto of an international murder mystery with a collection of fascinating esoteria culled from 2,000 years of Western history.

Leonardo Drawings (Dover Art Library)

Biography - Leonardo Da Vinci (1997) VHS Tape

Life of Leonardo Da Vinci video

Links for Learning about Leonardo da Vinci

• Leonardo da Vinci: WebMuseum
• Exploring Leonardo: Boston Museum of Science
• Vinci- Leonardo’s Home Town
• Leonardo da Vinci: A Man of Both Worlds: ThinkQuest
• Leonardo da Vinci Activity- Measure the Vitruvian Man