Little secret about Leonardo da vinci

Leonardo da Vinci, a genius, a great Italian inventor. Some of his marvels and inventions are known all over the world but there are some interesting facts about Lenardo's life and creativity that are less well known.

Great painter, scientist, engineer and surgeon, one of the best representatives of Renaissance art and science, Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452 in Anchiano village, near the city of Vinci, Italy .

In addition to famous paintings and sculptures around the world, Leonardo genius left handwritten manuscripts on many areas of knowledge.

He studied mathematics, fluid mechanics, geology and natural geography, meteorology, chemistry, astronomy, botany, anatomy and physiology of humans and animals.

Although some of Leonardo's marvels, such as La Gioconda , are well known, there are still some less known facts about his life and creativity.

For example, Leonardo's mother was an ordinary farmer, he received education at home, played a skillful lyre, being the first to explain why the sky was blue, and the moon was shining, being a man. Two-handed and difficult reading.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

1. Leonardo was born in the family of wealthy notary and landlord Piero da Vinci , his mother a farmer named Caterina. He enjoyed good education at home, but he was not able to study Greek and Latin in a formal way.

2. He played the skill of the lyre . When the Milan court tried Leonardo's case, he went to court as a musician, not as a painter or inventor.

3. There is a basis for that, Leonardo is a homosexual. When he studied at the famous artist's studio Verrocchio of Florence, he was accused of abusing the boy to model him. The court tried him out.

4. Leonardo Da Vinci spent about 10 years drawing Mona Lisa's lips.

5. According to one hypothesis, Mona Lisa smiled because she knew she was pregnant, which was still a secret to everyone.

6. According to another hypothesis, musicians and clowns made Gioconda smile while she was working on a model for Leonardo da Vinci.

7. Scientists at the University of Amsterdam and American scientists, studying Gioconda's mysterious smile with a new computer program, found the structure of a mysterious smile. The Mona Lisa's smile contained: 83% happiness, 9% disdain, 6% fear and 2% anger.

8. Leonardo left submarine designs, wind turbines, tanks, artillery, machine guns, weaving machine planes, bearings, field irrigation systems and invented though .

One of Da Vinci's drawings.

9. Leonardo obviously did not leave any self-portraits that could confirm his certainty. Scientists suspect Leonardo's famous brown-lead self-portrait (often thought to be drawn in 1512-1515), and he is not old at all. They thought that it might just be a sketch of an apostle's head in the ' Last Supper' . The suspicion that this is not a self-portrait of Leonardo has been raised since the nineteenth century, who recently raised it as one of the biggest experts on Leonardo - Professor Pietro Marani.

10. Leonardo loves water: he has written instructions for diving underwater, inventing and describing diving equipment, breathing machines to swim underwater. All of Leonardo's inventions are the basis of modern diving equipment.

11. Leonardo is the first to explain why the sky is blue . In the book "About painting," he wrote: "The blue of the sky was born thanks to a thick layer of illuminated air particles in the middle of the earth and black above."

12. Billionaire Bill Gates in 1994 spent $ 30 million buying Codex Leicester manuscript - a collection of works by Leonardo da Vinci. Since 2003, it has been exhibited at the Seattle Museum of Art.

Collection of scientific documents called Da Vinci's Codex Leicester.

13. Another theory is that the Mona Lisa painting is Leonardo's self-portrait.

14. In December 2000, British paratrooper Adrian Nicolas in South Africa jumped from a balloon at a height of 3000m with a parachute following the sketch of Leonardo da Vinci.

15. Leonardo is ambidextrous , using his left and right hand with the same ingenuity. Even people say that he can write different texts simultaneously with two different hands. He suffers from dyslexia - the disease, which is called 'speech blindness ', is thought to be associated with a decline in brain activity in a region of the left hemisphere. As we know, Leonardo wrote and drew a mirror. Most of the works in his famous notebooks, he wrote with his left hand, right to left in reverse writing. Many people said that he did so to keep his research confidential. In another hypothesis, mirror writing is his personal characteristic, even if he thinks that it is easier to write like this than to write in the usual way. There is even a concept of 'Leonardo's writing style'.

16. He was a perfectionist when he left many pictures and destroyed most of his works. Leonardo likes to borrow money, but does not like to do the same work that has begun, so he often changes places.

17. Leonardo is a vegetarian for humanitarian reasons. He likes to buy locked-up birds to release them. He once said: 'If people want to reach out to freedom, why does he confine beasts in cages? . humans are really lords of animals because people are killing them savagely. We live by killing others. We are the graveyards! From a young age, I gave up meat '.

18. The week-long moon observations led Leonardo to one of the most important scientific discoveries - he determined that sunlight reflected from the earth and returned to the moon in the form of secondary irradiation.

19. In 2005, the Louvre Museum spent $ 5.5 million to transfer the famous Gioconda to hang in the common space to a specially furnished room. It was reserved for 2/3 of the state picture (Salle des États) with a total area of ​​840 m ² . The vast room was renovated into a gallery, on a canvas in the far side of Leonardo's masterpiece. The architecturally renovated room of the Peruvian architect Lorenzo Pikeras for nearly 4 years. The Louvre decided to move Mona Lisa into private space because in the old position, this masterpiece was faded between the works of other Italian painters, and the public had to line up to admire. famous picture.

The famous Mona Lisa painting.

20. In August 2003, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece "The Lady with the Pole" , worth $ 50 million, was stolen from the Drumlanrig castle of one of Scotland's richest landowners, Duke Buccleuch. The theft of this painting is included in the list of the 10 most famous art crimes published by the FBI in November 2005. In October 2007, the police recalled the painting. After that, the painting was borrowed and displayed by the Scottish National Museum of Art.

21. Leonardo is the first artist to cut corpses to understand the arrangement and structure of muscles. Leonardo at night crept into cemeteries, stealing corpses to study human anatomy.

22. Being extremely passionate about puns, Leonardo left in Codex Arundel episodes a long list of male penis synonyms.

23 . Da Vinci sleeps for 15 minutes every 4 hours , which is to sleep 90 minutes a day, instead of 7-9 hours as usual.

24. Among Leonardo's passions are cooking and party art. In Milan, for 13 years, he was the host of the royal banquets. He invented a number of cooking methods to lighten the work of chefs. The unique dish called Leonardo with sliced ​​meat and stewed vegetables is very popular at royal parties.

25. When constructing canals, Leonardo da Vinci conducted an observation that later went into the geology under his name as a theoretical principle that defined the time of creating soil layers. He came to the conclusion that the earth is much older than the point of view in the Bible.

26 . The concept of contact lenses made by Da Vinci first in 1508.

27 . The last word before Leonardo da Vinci's last breath was to blame himself and feel that what he did was not enough.