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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 Funf studies of grotesque faces oil painting

Painting ID::  38522

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Funf studies of grotesque faces
mk137 ca. 1494 feathers and ink 26x20.6cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle.
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Profiles of a young and an old man oil painting

Painting ID::  38523

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Profiles of a young and an old man
mk137 ca.1500-1505 Rotel,21x15cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Rule fur the proportion of the human figure oil painting

Painting ID::  38524

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Rule fur the proportion of the human figure
mk137 after Vitruv 1490 feathers and ink, 34.4x24.5cm Galleria Dell' Accademia, Venice
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Muscle structure of the thigh oil painting

Painting ID::  38525

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Muscle structure of the thigh
mk137 Feather and ink black chalk 28.6x20.7cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Muscles and bone of leg and Hufte oil painting

Painting ID::  38526

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Muscles and bone of leg and Hufte
mk137 vergleichends study to the skeleton of the person and the horse ca.1506-1508 feather and ink with Rotel before red background 28.5x20.5cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Interior view of the Schadels oil painting

Painting ID::  38527

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Interior view of the Schadels
mk137 1489 feathers and ink 19x13.3cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Anatomy of the Schadels oil painting

Painting ID::  38528

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Anatomy of the Schadels
mk137 1489 feathers and ink 19x13.3cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle.
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Waiter flat anatomy of the shoulder oil painting

Painting ID::  38529

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Waiter flat anatomy of the shoulder
mk137 ca.1510-1511 feather and ink with India ink uber wood cabbage cement floor 28.9x19.8cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci The muscles of arm, shoulder and neck oil painting

Painting ID::  38530

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Leonardo Da Vinci
The muscles of arm, shoulder and neck
mk137 after 1510 feathers and ink with India ink 28.5x19.5cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Study of the proportion of the head oil painting

Painting ID::  38531

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Study of the proportion of the head
mk137 ca. 1490 feathers and brown India ink, Royal Library, Windsor Castle
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Anatomical study of the brain and the scalp oil painting

Painting ID::  38532

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Anatomical study of the brain and the scalp
mk137 ca.1490-1493 feather and brown India ink and Rotel 20.3x15.2cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci The muscles of Thorax and shoulders in a lebnden person oil painting

Painting ID::  38533

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Leonardo Da Vinci
The muscles of Thorax and shoulders in a lebnden person
mk137 1510 feathers and brown ink and black chalk with India ink 29.8x19.8cm Royal Collection, Windsor Castle
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Anatomical drawing of the stomach and the intestine oil painting

Painting ID::  38534

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Anatomical drawing of the stomach and the intestine
mk137 ca. 1506 feathers and brown India ink, traces of black chalk 19.2x13.8cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Gekrose of the intestine and its Gefabsystems oil painting

Painting ID::  38535

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Gekrose of the intestine and its Gefabsystems
mk137 ca.1506 feather and India ink traces of black chalk 19.3x14.3cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci The organs of the woman oil painting

Painting ID::  38536

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Leonardo Da Vinci
The organs of the woman
mk137 ca. 1509 feathers and ink uber charcoal and traces of Rotel with dark brown India ink 46.7x33.2cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle.
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci You branching of the Blutgefabe, anatomical figure with heart kidneys and Blutgefaben oil painting

Painting ID::  38537

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Leonardo Da Vinci
You branching of the Blutgefabe, anatomical figure with heart kidneys and Blutgefaben
mk137 ca. 1490 feathers and brown India ink uber of black chalk 28x20cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Anatomical studies of the basin of the Steibeins and the lower Gliedmaben of a woman and study of the rotation of the arms oil painting

Painting ID::  38538

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Anatomical studies of the basin of the Steibeins and the lower Gliedmaben of a woman and study of the rotation of the arms
mk137 ca.1509-1510 feather and brown India ink and black chalk 28.6x19.3cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci The embryo in the Uterus oil painting

Painting ID::  38539

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Leonardo Da Vinci
The embryo in the Uterus
mk137 ca.1510-1512 feather and ink with India ink uber Rotel 30x21.5cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci The Fotus in the Uterus oil painting

Painting ID::  38540

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Leonardo Da Vinci
The Fotus in the Uterus
mk137 ca.1511-1513 feather and ink 30.5x22cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Madonna with a Flower oil painting

Painting ID::  40970

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Madonna with a Flower
mk159 Oil on cnvas Transferred from panel 49.5x31.5cm
   
   
     

 

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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.