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Item: Leonardo da Vinci
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Full name Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
Born April 15, 1452
Died May 2, 1519
Where born Italy
Style/Movement High Renaissance
Works include:
Medium Painting, Architecture, Drawing, Sculpture
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Total: 1 Latest: 17/07/2010 13:40:22 by purpleprincess

reviewed by purpleprincess
13:40:22 | 17 Jul 2010
Da Vinci was not an artist!
I would argue that Da Vinci shouldnt be classified as an artist, as that box is too tiny to capture all of what this Dood could do.. To quote Wikipedia, Da Vinci was an Italian "polymath" - and no, Dan, that doesnt mean he had lots of wives.. nor does it mean he taught his parrot to multiply and divide.. it means that he was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. (He was also ALLEGEDLY a member of the Freemasons who encoded his paintings with all kinds of signs, "symbology" and riddles for us armchair detectives who like to read Dan Brown novels to use to stoke up the conspiracy theories of old..)
It seems unfair to categorize as an "artist" a man who had this said about him:
"There may not be in the world an example of another genius so universal, so incapable of fulfilment, so full of yearning for the infinite, so naturally refined, so far ahead of his own century and the following centuries."
-Hippolyte Taine
Da Vinci drew the first known pictures ever of a foetus, he discovered "hardening of the arteries" (something that was not rediscovered for well over a 100 years afterwards), he discovered all kinds of scientific laws and engineering truths - about light, flight, biology, hydraulics etc - that were not fully appreciated until hundreds of years later..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQM0bfBQvDA
If there is one person in history the term "genius" should truly be used for, its Da Vinci
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No, it's a portrait by her fellow impressionist, Manet...
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Is that a self portrait?
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DJ 19:28:28 | 23 Nov 2011
I thought this was something you stuffed with mince....
Sparkly Aph 09:49:03 | 2 Oct 2011
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Spiny Norman 22:57:06 | 13 Feb 2011
Good point ...... my enthusiasm made me 'click crazy'. It'll be interesting though to see whether old or new rises like cream or falls like lead.
Daddy Papersurfer 08:41:44 | 14 Sep 2010
Will definitely check him out but think we need some relativity here. 5 Stars for 'posthumous fame' seems a touch prescient methinks. Been thinking for a while about creating a separate Contemporary Artists list so we can differentiate from the old(er) masters....
DJ 08:34:33 | 14 Sep 2010
I doubt you'd find anyone who would challenge you on that, so congratulations! Maybe you should start a blog!!
DJ 07:35:41 | 18 Jul 2010
I have no recollection of such events either.. which is how I know how wicked they were.. I vaguely remember stumbling home to Finsbury Halls via the banks of the River Thames, singing Abba songs and Michael Jackson songs.. yes see I was into Retro before it was even trendy to be Retro.. I am the original Retro Dudette!
purpleprincess 22:44:08 | 17 Jul 2010
He was indeed a 'Dood' - although I'm not sure how much he would have appreciated the moniker! As for drunken nights at the Tattershall Castle, I'm afraid I have no recollection of such events........
DJ 19:26:22 | 17 Jul 2010
I'll say it then ..... "his hammer and chisel" .......
Daddy Papersurfer 07:50:30 | 6 Jul 2010
most certainly.....though where does the tache end and the beard begin......quite scary....do you think it all joins up to his chest hair and then down to his..........oh never mind.....
Sparkly Aph 07:34:12 | 6 Jul 2010
Does he qualify for the tache list??
DJ 07:30:58 | 6 Jul 2010
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