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Leonardo da Vinci 


"Da Vinci was one of the great creative minds of the Italian Renaissance, hugely influential as an artist and sculptor but also immensely talented as an engineer, scientist and inventor.Leonardo da Vinci was born on 15 April 1452 near the Tuscan town of Vinci, the illegitimate son of a local lawyer". He was apprenticed to the sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence and in 1478 became an independent master. In about 1483, he moved to Milan to work for the ruling Sforza family as an engineer, sculptor, painter and architect. From 1495 to 1497 he produced a mural of 'The Last Supper' in the refectory of the Monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan.

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THE LAST SUPPER 


From left to right: Bartholomew, James, son of Alphaeus and Andrew form a group of three, all are surprised. Judas Iscariot, Peter and John form another group of three. Judas is wearing green and blue and is in shadow, looking rather withdrawn and taken back by the sudden revelation of his plan. He is clutching a small bag, perhaps signifying the silver given to him as payment to betray Jesus.

What inspired Leonardo at the time was Domus Sancteae Marthae,Vatican City,Which it were the pope lives and at the time the church was in power and there didn't have a government a government is a group of people with the authority to govern a country or state and that's what the church was they had power over many people and what they would do for example with the last supper the church asked Leonardo Da Vinci to paint the last supper but what people didn't know was that the church had at lot of power over people,"The church had its,power built up over the centuries and relied on ignorance and superstition on the part of the populace, It had been indoctrinated into the people that they could only get to heaven by the church.This gave a priest enormous power at a local level on behalf of the Catholic Church. The local population viewed the local priest as their ‘passport’ to heaven as they knew no different and had been taught this from birth by the local priest. Such a message was constantly being repeated to ignorant people in church service after church service. Hence keeping your priest happy was seen as a prerequisite to going to heaven."



People said how would Leonardo know what Jesus looked like and he didn't because this wasn't painted till 1495-1498 and Jesus was born 4.B.C,But nobody really knows exactly when Jesus was born,some scholars think that he was born between 6.B.C and 4.B.C,Based partly on the biblical story of Herod the great so no one really knows for sure.when Leonardo Da Vinci began painted the Last Supper on the wall of the refectory dining hall of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Italy,He stared 1495 completed it in 1498.Although it took over three years to complete,Leonardo da Vinci did not actually work on it continuously. No one knows the exact date of complete cause they missed place the keeping records it was painted on a dry wall, instead of wet plaster,Unlike frescos, 

 where the pigments are mixed with the wet plaster, it has not stood the test of time well. Even before 

 it was finished there were problems with the paint flaking from the wall and Leonardo had to repair

  it. Over the years it has crumbled, been vandalized bombed and restored. Today we are probably 
looking at very little of the original and even thought its over 500 years old I still think its one of the best peace's of art even though people don't believe in god or Jesus I don't think people appreciate what this work of art is its not just a painting of Jesus and his disciple its a story its abit of history no one sees that when looking at this painting I see the detail on the painting and the hours spent doing every stroke and many times he messed up but he didn't give up on it people should just look past what it is and appreciate it altogether.


But there is a set on the table facing the disables and Jesus,Could it be Jesus was in that sit and all 12 disables was there and maybe John is really marry Magdalene and Jesus was John and that sit facing them was really Jesus,Because there are 12 disables and Jesus that makes 13 so who is that sit at the front for could it really be were Jesus sit,Because when you go church do you sit the same way as the priest? No you don't he/she sits facing you,so maybe that sit was there for Jesus showing us what he seen in his last few hours on earth,no one knows for sure but that just a possible.And this is just an idea I that I came to when I was researching the last supper by Leonardo da Vinci.



Website I used-
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-paintings/last-supper-leonardo-davinci.htm

 http://favourite-paintings.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/leonardo-da-vinci-last-supper.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSsGRfCqN2s

The Mona Lisa 

The Mona Lisa is perhaps the most popular and talked about art piece in the world. Painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, this painting has been a matter of interest for many. Everything about the painting has been a source of debate for centuries. The enigmatic facial expression of the woman in the painting is still an unresolved mystery.The name of the painting, Mona Lisa was the result of a spelling error The original name of the painting was Monna Lisa. Monna in Italian is a short form of Madonna, meaning 'My Lady'. The identity of the woman in the painting is still a mystery. Some believe that it is the female form of Leonardo Da Vinci himself. Most popular belief is that the woman was Lisa Gherardini, who was 24-years-old and a mother of 6 children but only 2 of her children lived but at the time when this was being painted she just had her second child,and she was wife of Francesco del Gioconda and is believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506. Leonardo may have continued working on it as late as 1517. But for  some unknown reasons, he didn't deliver it to the patron, however, people believe it ended up in his workshop  (who some think was Leonardo’s lover).but it wasn't. 

Another interesting fact about the painting is that the woman in the painting has no eyebrows. It is rumoured that it is because when the authorities were trying to restore the painting, the eyebrows got accidentally removed. However, some people believe that Leonardo Da Vinci never completed the painting because he was a consummate perfectionist.


"The original painting, which currently hangs at the Louvre in Paris, is obscured by several layers of old, cracked varnish.However, cleaning and restoration is thought to be too risky because the painting is fragile.The Art Newspaper said the removal of the black paint on the replica had revealed "the fine details of the delicate Tuscan landscape", which mirrors the background of Leonardo's masterpiece.
In fact, the new painting has led experts to speculate that the woman who sat for the Renaissance Masterpiece was in her early 20s - much younger than the Louvre's original appears to show.As the replica remained hidden for so long under the over paint, experts had believed it was painted long after Leonardo's death.But after using x-rays to analyse the original drawings underneath, conservators have concluded the work was carried out at the same time as Leonardo's original.The museum presented its findings at a conference on Leonardo da Vinci at London's National Gallery."


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St. John-the haloes and the reed cross carried by St.John did not appear on the original painting,They were added in the second one.there is also some unfinished thing with in the second painting,Like the left hand of the angle placed on the back of the Christ.also the foreground is unfinished,In the earlier version in the Louvre,Leonardo included water in this area.



The origins of the is famous painting are obscure,it was commissioned as an altarpiece by the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception in San Francesco,Milan,however,
there is an earlier version of this work,now in the Louvre in Paris,Which suggests that's the artist sold his original painting to the French King rather than delivering it to the Confraternity as required by his contract.He probably created this second version in order to fulfil his contractual obligation.
These paintings are over 6 feet tall, and in person one can actually see Da Vinci’s use of sfumato-the soft smoky handling of pain and outline that makes form merge into one another,The effect produced greater realism,and enhanced the mood of the painting. 

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I cant find what the book was called I used but I do have photo cope of the page.












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