Leonardo da Vinci

Question 1

What does looking at Leonardo da Vinci’s life help us understand?

Answer 1

How people were creative in many areas during the Renaissance

Question 2

What was Leonardo da Vinci famous for?

Answer 2

• art works (painter)
• scientific & engineering contributions (inventor & scientist)

Question 3

What does the painting of Madonna on the Rocks demonstrate?

Answer 3

1. Leonardo da Vinci was a great artist
2. His interest in nature
3. His interest in light & the science of perspective

Question 4

What does the painting of The Vitruvian Man demonstrate? why did Leonardo do this?

Answer 4

Shows the anatomy of the human body in detail.
Leonardo da Vinci was one of the first people to record the human anatomy in detail; did this so he could paint better

Question 5

What did Leonardo da Vinci invent?

Answer 5

many machines & engineering projects
eg. a helicopter

Question 6

Give a famous quote by Leonardo da Vinci

Answer 6

“Learning never exhausts the mind”

Question 7

When & where was Leonardo da Vinci born?

Answer 7

Vinci in Italy
15 April 1452

Question 8

What were Leonardo da Vinci’s major accomplishments?

Answer 8

Paintings:
The Vitruvian Man (1490)
The Last Supper (1495-1498)
The Mona Lisa (1503-1506)
St John the Baptist (1513-1516)

Question 9

Give some key events in Leonardo da Vinci’s life & when they happened

Answer 9

1469 - started apprenticeship with an artist in Florence
1478 - became an independent master artist in Florence
1482 - began working for the Duke of Milan
1499 - returned to Florence & began working for Cesare Borgia
1513-1516 - worked in Rome for Pope Julius II & continued work on paintings
1517-1519 - moved to France & serves as a court artist for King Francis I.
1519 (2 May) - died in France