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Leonardo Da Vinci
Italian High Renaissance Painter and Inventor, 1452-1519 Italian High Renaissance Painter and Inventor, 1452-1519 Florentine Renaissance man, genius, artist in all media, architect, military engineer. Possibly the most brilliantly creative man in European history, he advertised himself, first of all, as a military engineer. In a famous letter dated about 1481 to Ludovico Sforza, of which a copy survives in the Codice Atlantico in Milan, Leonardo asks for employment in that capacity. He had plans for bridges, very light and strong, and plans for destroying those of the enemy. He knew how to cut off water to besieged fortifications, and how to construct bridges, mantlets, scaling ladders, and other instruments. He designed cannon, very convenient and easy of transport, designed to fire small stones, almost in the manner of hail??grape- or case-shot (see ammunition, artillery). He offered cannon of very beautiful and useful shapes, quite different from those in common use and, where it is not possible to employ cannon ?? catapults, mangonels and trabocchi and other engines of wonderful efficacy not in general use. And he said he made armoured cars, safe and unassailable, which will enter the serried ranks of the enemy with their artillery ?? and behind them the infantry will be able to follow quite unharmed, and without any opposition. He also offered to design ships which can resist the fire of all the heaviest cannon, and powder and smoke. The large number of surviving drawings and notes on military art show that Leonardo claims were not without foundation, although most date from after the Sforza letter. Most of the drawings, including giant crossbows (see bows), appear to be improvements on existing machines rather than new inventions. One exception is the drawing of a tank dating from 1485-8 now in the British Museum??a flattened cone, propelled from inside by crankshafts, firing guns. Another design in the British Museum, for a machine with scythes revolving in the horizontal plane, dismembering bodies as it goes, is gruesomely fanciful. Most of the other drawings are in the Codice Atlantico in Milan but some are in the Royal Libraries at Windsor and Turin, in Venice, or the Louvre and the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Two ingenious machines for continuously firing arrows, machine-gun style, powered by a treadmill are shown in the Codice Atlantico. A number of other sketches of bridges, water pumps, and canals could be for military or civil purposes: dual use technology. Leonardo lived at a time when the first artillery fortifications were appearing and the Codice Atlantico contains sketches of ingenious fortifications combining bastions, round towers, and truncated cones. Models constructed from the drawings and photographed in Calvi works reveal forts which would have looked strikingly modern in the 19th century, and might even feature in science fiction films today. On 18 August 1502 Cesare Borgia appointed Leonardo as his Military Engineer General, although no known building by Leonardo exists. Leonardo was also fascinated by flight. Thirteen pages with drawings for man-powered aeroplanes survive and there is one design for a helicoidal helicopter. Leonardo later realized the inadequacy of the power a man could generate and turned his attention to aerofoils. Had his enormous abilities been concentrated on one thing, he might have invented the modern glider.

 

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Leonardo Da Vinci Studies of children oil painting

Painting ID::  38498

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Studies of children
mk137 ca.1506-1508 black chalk, Uberarbeitet with feather and ink 20.4x15.2cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Profile of a child oil painting

Painting ID::  38499

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Profile of a child
mk137 ca.1495Rotel on paper 10x10cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Madonna in the rock grotto oil painting

Painting ID::  38501

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Madonna in the rock grotto
mk137 1483-1486 oil on linen 199x1222cm muse you Louvre, Paris
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Madonna in the rock grottos oil painting

Painting ID::  38502

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Madonna in the rock grottos
mk137 1491-1508 oils on linen 189.5x120cm The nationally Gallery, London
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Madonna in the rock grottos(Details oil painting

Painting ID::  38503

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Madonna in the rock grottos(Details
mk137 1491-1508 oils on linen 189.5x120cm The nationally Gallery, London
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Study fur a women head oil painting

Painting ID::  38504

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Study fur a women head
mk137 ca. 1490 silver pencils on paper 18x16.8cm muse you Louvre, Paris
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Study fur the head of a Madchens oil painting

Painting ID::  38505

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Study fur the head of a Madchens
mk137 ca. 1483 silver pencils 18.2x16cm Biblioteca real, Turin
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Portrat of a Madchens oil painting

Painting ID::  38506

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Portrat of a Madchens
mk137 ca. 1485 metal pencils 18x16cm Biblioteca real, Turin
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci The master of the Pala Sforzesca attributed oil painting

Painting ID::  38507

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Leonardo Da Vinci
The master of the Pala Sforzesca attributed
mk137 Frauenbuste silver pencil 23.6x15.5cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Madchenkopf with confused hair oil painting

Painting ID::  38509

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Madchenkopf with confused hair
mk137 1500 Umbra and grunlicher Amber with Weibhohungen on wood chalkboard 24.7x21cm Galleria Nazionale, Parma
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Study of an apostle oil painting

Painting ID::  38510

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Study of an apostle
mk137 ca. 1495 feathers uber metal pencil before blue background 14.5x11.3cm Albertina museum Vienna
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Study fur the communion oil painting

Painting ID::  38511

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Study fur the communion
mk137 ca. 1495. Rotel Royal Library, Windsor Castle.
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Study fur the communion oil painting

Painting ID::  38512

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Study fur the communion
mk137 ca. 1495 Rotel. Royal Library, Windsor Castle.
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Last Supper oil painting

Painting ID::  38513

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Last Supper
mk137 1495-1498 oil and Tempera on stone 460x880cm Santa Maria della grace Milan
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Portrait oil painting

Painting ID::  38514

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Portrait
mk137 ca. 1495 Pastelkkreide and charcoal. 40x32cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Lady with the ermine oil painting

Painting ID::  38516

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Lady with the ermine
mk137 1483-1490 oil on wood chalkboard 54.8x40.3cm Czartoryski museum, Krakau
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Head and shoulders Christs oil painting

Painting ID::  38518

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Head and shoulders Christs
mk137 ca.1490-1495 metal pencil 115x9cm Galleria Dell' Accademia Venice
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Profile of a man oil painting

Painting ID::  38519

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Profile of a man
mk137 ca.1506-1508 feather and ink, Rotel and black chalk 14.7x10.4cm Galleria Dell' Accademia, Venice
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Portrats of two men oil painting

Painting ID::  38520

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Portrats of two men
mk137 ca.1487-1490 feather and ink 16.3x14.3cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Grotesque profile of a man oil painting

Painting ID::  38521

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Grotesque profile of a man
mk137 ca.1485-1490 feather and ink 12.6x10.4cm Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
   
   
     

 

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Italian High Renaissance Painter and Inventor, 1452-1519 Italian High Renaissance Painter and Inventor, 1452-1519 Florentine Renaissance man, genius, artist in all media, architect, military engineer. Possibly the most brilliantly creative man in European history, he advertised himself, first of all, as a military engineer. In a famous letter dated about 1481 to Ludovico Sforza, of which a copy survives in the Codice Atlantico in Milan, Leonardo asks for employment in that capacity. He had plans for bridges, very light and strong, and plans for destroying those of the enemy. He knew how to cut off water to besieged fortifications, and how to construct bridges, mantlets, scaling ladders, and other instruments. He designed cannon, very convenient and easy of transport, designed to fire small stones, almost in the manner of hail??grape- or case-shot (see ammunition, artillery). He offered cannon of very beautiful and useful shapes, quite different from those in common use and, where it is not possible to employ cannon ?? catapults, mangonels and trabocchi and other engines of wonderful efficacy not in general use. And he said he made armoured cars, safe and unassailable, which will enter the serried ranks of the enemy with their artillery ?? and behind them the infantry will be able to follow quite unharmed, and without any opposition. He also offered to design ships which can resist the fire of all the heaviest cannon, and powder and smoke. The large number of surviving drawings and notes on military art show that Leonardo claims were not without foundation, although most date from after the Sforza letter. Most of the drawings, including giant crossbows (see bows), appear to be improvements on existing machines rather than new inventions. One exception is the drawing of a tank dating from 1485-8 now in the British Museum??a flattened cone, propelled from inside by crankshafts, firing guns. Another design in the British Museum, for a machine with scythes revolving in the horizontal plane, dismembering bodies as it goes, is gruesomely fanciful. Most of the other drawings are in the Codice Atlantico in Milan but some are in the Royal Libraries at Windsor and Turin, in Venice, or the Louvre and the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Two ingenious machines for continuously firing arrows, machine-gun style, powered by a treadmill are shown in the Codice Atlantico. A number of other sketches of bridges, water pumps, and canals could be for military or civil purposes: dual use technology. Leonardo lived at a time when the first artillery fortifications were appearing and the Codice Atlantico contains sketches of ingenious fortifications combining bastions, round towers, and truncated cones. Models constructed from the drawings and photographed in Calvi works reveal forts which would have looked strikingly modern in the 19th century, and might even feature in science fiction films today. On 18 August 1502 Cesare Borgia appointed Leonardo as his Military Engineer General, although no known building by Leonardo exists. Leonardo was also fascinated by flight. Thirteen pages with drawings for man-powered aeroplanes survive and there is one design for a helicoidal helicopter. Leonardo later realized the inadequacy of the power a man could generate and turned his attention to aerofoils. Had his enormous abilities been concentrated on one thing, he might have invented the modern glider.