Leonardo da Vinci

Timeline: The High Renaissance

The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane.
– Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo DA VINCI (b. 1452, Vinci, Republic of Florence [now in Italy]–d. May 2, 1519, Cloux, Fr.), Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. His Last Supper (1495-97) and Mona Lisa (1503-06) are among the most widely popular and influential paintings of the Renaissance. His notebooks reveal a spirit of scientific inquiry and a mechanical inventiveness that were centuries ahead of his time.

Ginevra de’ Benci
c. 1474 (150 Kb); Oil on wood, 38.2 x 36.7 cm (15 1/8 x 14 1/2 in); National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

The Adoration of the Magi
1481-82 (200 Kb); Yellow ochre and brown ink on panel, 246 x 243 cm (8 x 8 ft); Uffizi, Florence

Lady with an Ermine
1483-90 (150 Kb); Oil on wood, 53.4 x 39.3 cm (21 x 15 1/2 in); Czartoryski Museum, Cracow

Madonna Litta
c. 1490-91 (150 Kb); Tempera on canvas, transferred from panel, 42 x 33 cm (16 1/2 x 13 in); Hermitage, St. Petersburg

The Last Supper
1498 (180 Kb); Fresco, 460 x 880 cm (15 x 29 ft); Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie (Refectory), Milan

A copy made by an apprentice of a da Vinci painting which never dried
Da vinci made numerous experiments using different colours and when painting this particular church he failed.

BIOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT OROD

The Great Orod, the Iranian leading caricaturist, creator of gYADh, the internationally recognized work, is a patriot artist, who has thus far trained hundreds of caricaturists.

He has written the first educational book on Iranian caricature.

Several books have been written about him, including a book titled gBarayand (Resultant)h, which contains his mellifluous discourses, and another one entitled gthe Ancient Continenth, which is illustrative of his social and historical ideas.

gThe Excitedh is another book that compares the Great Orodfs ideas and philosophical thoughts with Nitzch and Jebran Khalil Jebran.