Essay

Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist, near a town called Vinci. He was a creative man and a supreme genius. With scientific precision and artistry, he drew subjects from flying machines to caricatures; he also drew intricate studies of people. He also created some mathematical symbols of his own. Scientists did this because number notation was not standardized until after the invention of the printing press. This made it hard for many scientists for them to communicate their ideas with each other. The symbols the scientists made was the numbers one to ten, used in Greece, Rome, and in medieval Spain.

Leonardo used mirror writing going from right to left on the pages of his notebooks. The paper that he bought were expensive, also the scarce was also expensive so he scribbled desperately on every piece of paper he could find. These scraps were put together. School had complaints that Leonardo’s notebook workbook was a junk of drawings and writing on myriad subject like a continue streams of consciousness. Two thirds of his notebook was ever found in history.

Leonardo studied on math by himself after he finished his appetencies as an artist he had trouble with arithmetic and estimating square roots in particular. He doesn’t know for sure that some of the arithmetic was even true. Consequentially, he turned to empirical ways of solving geometry questions.

In 1483, when Leonardo da Vinci was 31 years old, he was hired as an engineer in the military by Duke Milan. Milan was the center of arms manufactured in Italy at this period of time. Why sis the young painter make his career change? Maybe he likes monk eying with mechanical stuff, like guys working on their cars, he scribed on his book:

It must have been paid well because in 1502, he changed jobs and then he went to work for Csare Borgia, his job description is head architect for the army engineer. Leonardo spends some of his precious years working for the governor of French, Charles d'Amboise and Emperor Francis I. the king gives him a pay for his retirement. And he dies in 1519 at Cloux near Amboise.

            Leonardo's Last Supper is a priceless art. Under the study of Verrocchio as a painter and a sculptor, he was able to use his skills in creating a very detailed piece of work that would be remembered for hundreds of years. He was also able to create characters. Not only was his picture of the characters exellant, but the symbol he used which gives the story being told in the Last Supper.

            Lodovico Sforza chose Leonardo to create The Last Supper in Dominican Church of S. Maria delle Grazie in Milan. The end of the S. Maria delle Grazie saw Leonardo work from morning until night on The Last Supper without eating. There were times he would stop painting for days at a time or, he would work on a character for just a few moments and then leave to continue working on it later. He worked on it from 1495 through 1498.

           Before Leonardo began painting the actual portrait, to absorb the tempora and protect the moisture on the wall. The substance was proved unsuccessful, and by 1517 it began to inpair.

In May 1556 a painter Giovanni Batista Armenini said that the painting was so badly destroyed that nothing is visible but a mass of blots.

          The painting has continued to break down in the following centuries. It was further damaged made by careless artists and by the addition of a doorway put in the lower part of the painting. Yet even to this day his painting The Last Supper is known and visited by many people each year.

            The remembrance of the Last Supper could be due the parting meal. It is quite obvious that the skill used in the creation of the Last Supper was exellant. Leonardo allows its viewers to the scene from a specific point in the Bible adds to the importance and signs of the painting in which no other artist could even compare. He does allow the viewer to recognize this scene by the of both the Lord and the Apostles.



             He took much time to express every detail of each Apostle and the Lord. Leonardo had wrote in one of his notebooks that A good painter has two chief objects to paint man of his .