Leonardo Davinci

Unit 2: Art and Architecture Project

Part I

The Renaissance Artist: Leonardo Da Vinci

Part II

My House

Sherrye Sims

Humanities 300 Arts and Humanities: 20th Century and Beyond

Assignment One

Part One

Leonardo may be very well known now but he was not always the brilliant man we know today. Leonardo is known as a great artist, inventor, and researcher. We know Leonardo mostly as a painter, but he did not just paint. He also made flying machines like the paraglide and military weapons like the cannon, which soon came to be the earlier version of a machine gun. He did not stop; he continued to learn and invent. He soon went on to study the human body.

Leonardo was a poor child who lived in Vinci, which is why hi is called Leonardo Da Vinci, in other words “Leonard of Vinci”. He was not very privileged as a child and did not go to school. Everything Leonardo learned he taught himself, or so it was said in Leonardo’s Flights of the Mind. The little town he lived in was a perfect place for his imagination to soar. They had bugs, lizards, bats and many other terrifying beings. Once he drew a dragon on one of the shields for one of his father’s customers. The book Leonardo said “This little action he made as a child tells you that he was very creative at a young age.”

Leonardo’s inventions, like the scythed chariot and tanks, were killer machines. His scythed chariot designs were very shocking, because in the design he would have dying men on the ground. They had blades bursting out of the sides and they were spinning. The blades would sometimes be bursting out of the horses’ harnesses. Any man who came in contact with the blades would feel the grim horrible feeling of having limbs torn out of them and being left on the ground helpless, which I read from www.lairweb.nz/leonardo/armoured .com. In Leonardo’s tank designs, he would have horses and/or people powering if from the inside. They would be protected by the wood surrounding them....