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Leonardo Da Vinci Discoveries

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I chose to investigate the discoveries made by Leonardo da Vinci on the aspects of creating an appealing painting, for example, perspective, light, shadow, and color. Da Vinci defined painting as a science, and backed up this claim with credible evidence. Light and shadow are two important aspects that da Vinci studied, and developed into the idea of "chiaroscuro", which is the contrast between light and dark. His treatment of light in his painting the Mona Lisa changed the way that artists perceived and used light. The careful usage of light and shadow is how "modelling" (the three-dimensional illusion) is created. Prior to da Vinci's studies, painting and artwork tended to look flat, or two-dimensional. Da Vinci made discoveries about how

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