Analyzing Leonardo Da Vinci's Painting

Leonardo da Vinci clearly displayed this idea through his new techniques and styles of portraiture, clearly seen in the Mona Lisa, allowing the evolution of medieval art into modern day artwork. Leonardo da Vinci used things such as Chiaroscuro and sfumato to create a natural landscape and 3D form, first used by him. He used these techniques to create a smooth transition from the figure to landscape, using oil paint and idealism to give the painting a more realistic feel. He used the pyramid design and pillars on either side to focus the viewers on the woman in the portrait, while also using the light and dark tones on the figure to give the background depth. The new colours used as well as the shading and blending of paint give the painting a new sense of realism and

Support of how Vermeer had such vibrant paintings was the 3D glowing “working-up” which made his paintings so bright and lifelike. However true this may be Vermeer used a technique called underpainting or “working-up” which used much more paint than usual, but also added volume and gave his paintings more of a 3D feel. He would lay an initial layer of paint to the canvas, which served as a base for subsequent layers of paint. He then slowly built up the paint layers using multiple paint colors, rather than the more common method of building up the image using neutral or gray. This gave his paintings even more depth and a feel of reality. He had a very expensive pallet and used hand-ground paints and a glazing technique which was mostly used

"The Last Supper," by Leonardo Da Vinci is a fresco painting, meaning that it is directly painted on a wall. The "Last Supper" is fascinating to me in several ways. Maybe because I am Catholic and being familiar with it by hanging in our dining area at home. Most of my friends and acquaintances have a picture of it in their home as well.

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The work of Leonardo da Vinici is full of perspective, light, colors, and shadows. He was very young when he started paining and his paintings were the first in his time period to really capture the new technique of perspective. By the time Leonardo da Vinici was in his early twenties he was already famous in the art world! Leonardo da Vinci’s art was very significant because he used realistic elements that represent the world. The people around him were intrigued by his painting because they were new and eye opening. The time before Leonardo da Vinici was a very religious time and the paintings were of interesting religious beliefs. It is said that, “Leonardo went beyond his teaching by making a scientific study of light and shadow in nature.

“While some may deem Leonardo da Vinci paintings tame in their total effect on our society’s modern sensibilities, his development of techniques that immersed the viewer in the world of the painting, and the impact of those techniques cannot be understated.”1

The objective of this work examines the how Leonardo Da Vinci's work is reflective and definitive of the Renaissance period and as well, describes some of Da Vinci's art. This work will discuss the use of line, form, color, texture, and materials as found within one of his works and will state reasons this time period was chosen to examine in this work and why it is found to be appealing.

Leonardo da Vinci liked to use different forms of religious symbolism in his works. The most not able being “The Last Supper”. In it he uses four sets of three apostles to represent the four gospels and the trinity. He also placed Christ in front of a large window where the sky and clouds can be seen. This has importance because generally clouds represent the unseen God. He also tries to capture the confusion created when Jesus tells his apostles that he is going to be betrayed. He also added 3 windows and two sets of four door ways to represent the gospels and the

I learned that Leonardo da Vinci was a pioneer at painting. He used logic and math to try to understand the way shadows work. He also tried to understand how the sun could help see other primary colors and he tried to understand this by using the sun and a white wall. This is when he used angles and coloring to try to understand how this colors could reflect according to the position of the sun. As he started painting and integrating oil paint, he found that he was also able to build up the consistency of the paint and make the paint more realistic. I think what Leonardo was found as he started painting was that he could utilize light and shadows to make his works stand out and represent real life. I think he also

During Leonardo da Vinci’s time, art was consisted mostly of religious paintings that 2 dimensional appearance. I found it to be interesting that people did not understand how to paint with shadows to portray a 3 dimensional image. You would think that any artist of any time would know how to do this. IF you look at the art before his time much of it lacks physical depth.

Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Super is one of the greatest masterpieces of the High Renaissance in Italy’s 15th century. This artwork was commissioned by Ludovico de Sforza for the refectory of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, which was located in Milan. It is remarkable artwork, due to the fact that it was painted in the fresco seco, not the predominant buon fresco that was standard during this art period. Unfortunately, Da Vinci’s innovation is the main reason of the poor condition of the painting. The tempera vivid colors and subtle motion are other characteristics of the Italian Renaissance. Unfortunately, the painting very fast deteriorated, but it was restored. Furthermore, this artwork is a good example of the period because Da Vinci’s utilized orthogonals (Cunningham, p.421) to display focus in Jesus Christ. This is an excellent example of

While looking through the different topics I found myself curious on the work of Leonardo da Vinci with perspective, light, color, shading in paintings. While investigating this discovery, I learned so much. Leonardo da Vinci was interested in the natural world, so much that it led him into the field of optics and astronomy. At first while increasing his understanding he took the theories of the day as fact, but as he increased his knowledge he started to question what they had originally thought, not only did he question them, but also his own beliefs on the matter. As his understanding of how optics worked and the reflections that he observed from the sun on other planets and stars his paintings themselves began to adapt bringing more life

Leonardo Da Vinci’s work on shadows and art was motivated by the lack of explanation for the early of drawings on the walls. Pliny, a scientist before Da Vinci, theorized that the drawings were based off of the light that hit the bodies and the shadows that was cast because of the light and bodies. Leonardo Da Vinci, who was obsessed with shadows, theorized that the light that hits the human body or lack thereof was part of the whole picture. Some of Da Vinci’s first paintings used shadows and different tone of color, representing the way the sun hit the human body at different times of the day, to make beautiful paintings. Da Vinci asked questions like; how can we replicate the light that bounces off of our skin in a painting. Also what does the shadows look like on paintings.

I chose to research Leonardo Da Vinci's paintings and why he painted the way that he did. I chose this because I wanted to learn more about how and why Leonardo painted what he did. He was so famous for his works and he changed the face of art and how people looked at art. He was the first artist to use value constantly across his colors and paintings. He changed the way that people also looked at light and color. They are now related in a way that approximates and also describes their scientific and natural behavior. In one of his paintings he introduces a broader range of luminance that is seen. He uses it to make dimensions that he shows with his use of light and dark. It is called Chiaroscuro "a style of shading that dominates the tone

Leonardo’s scientific studies resulted in the paintings of rocks, plants, light and atmosphere. We can see hills, fields and the sky in the tree windows behind Christ. This is in a classical style, shown by the coffered ceiling which was introduced by ancient Greek and Romans and re-introduced again by Alberti. The orthogonals run from the coffered ceiling, the table and windows and from the disciples and their gestures which all then centres on Christ. The use of foreshortening in this painting is to emphasize the drama of the scene and to keep the figures in harmonious groups. As we can see on the third figure on the right, St Philip tries to deny that he would be the betrayer and to show this, his arm is foreshortened. While St Matthew, the fourth figure on the right, has his arms outflung which was made by foreshortening. This gesture was to help portray his horror, as well as his mouth opened talking to the 3 men to the left of him. There are other gestures that helped depict the idea of betrayal, as we can see on the left side of the painting where St Peter whispers to St. John’s ear while pushing Judas forward. All these gestures lead the viewers’ attention to the centre, where Christ is positioned. Behind Jesus, we can see the window where the natural light comes in which frames Christ’s head, like a halo. Christ’s position in the centre allowed him to be in front of the three windows, which symbolizes the Trinity. As well as that, we can see that he