Notes (10/07)

  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    • Illegitimate child (lived w/ his father’s family cuz he’s a dude)

    • Wrote a shit ton of notes that’s been used to piece together his life

    • “refused to let his body be used as a tomb for other creatures” vegetarian bruh

    • Not able to enter any guilds on his own w/o his father’s from

    • Round drawing of a dragon at 12 (father recognzied his talent)

    • Varoquio???

    • Learned both engineering & art

    • By 20, considered a master of the guild his father got him into

      • Wasn’t ready to be out on his own (BRO IM CHOKing

      • Struggled to finish his pieces

    • He originally didn’t want to pursue art- interested in weaponry, wanted to pursue engineering

    • Social butterfly (handsome? strong? ya right)

    • Leaves the atelier eventually

    • Fled Florence bc of all the lawsuits he got (since he never finished his commissions)

    • Goes to Milan, strikes up an offer w/ the Duke (regarding both weaponry & art)

    • Left when France attacked Milan, tried finding work but bad rep stopped him

    • Returns to Florence when he’s middle aged

  • Florence upstart artist - Michaelangelo

  • Leo & Mikey HATE each other fr

  • Leonardo →

    • Leaves again lol

    • Produces weaponry finally

    • Returns to Florence again lol

    • Met the King of France, became good friends, King gifted Leonardo a manor

    • Died at 67 (bruh)

    • King of France held his head when he passed??? gay ass

Leonardo’s art

  • Baptism of Christ? Varoquio’s painting but Leo assisted

    • Angel on the far left ← Leonardo’s part

    • Varoquio quit lol Leonardo surpassed him

  • Annunciation 1475(?)

    • Virgin Mary’s hair, Juniper trees (favored by Leo), the altar in front of Mary (marble sarcophagus) all points to Leo

    • The wings (Leo studied flight & birds diligently, but the wings are too long), the hands are too big refute these claims

    • Maybe there’s multiple artists involved?

  • Admiration of the Magi (unfinished)

    • Major commission Leo didn’t complete (right b4 he left 4 Milan)

    • Though unfinished, there’s a lot of emotion in the painting

  • St. Jerome in the Wilderness 1480

    • unfinished

    • Primordial background (related it to Genesis in the Bible) (Leo studying geology?)