Leonardo was born in 1452 in the town of Vinci, Province of Florence, Italy son of Ser Piero and Caterina Da Vinci, so his full name is Leonardo di Ser Piero da Vinci means Leonardo son of Ser Piero's home town of Vinci.
In 1476 the defendant to the case with a homosexual male models in their teens named Jacopo Saltarelli. So many years that Leonardo was always under the supervision of the authorities.
Masterpiece, Last Supper (The Last Supper) in 1495 until 1497 were painted on the walls of the monastery of Santa Maria in Milan, has now damaged by time. Another famous painting is the Mona Lisa which is now located in the Louvre museum, Paris. A speculation about who the real Mona Lisa, among others, states that the image of the woman is the custom face Da Vinci himself. Another speculation claimed that the woman was never there, a merchants wife.
Leonardo da Vinci died at Clos Lucé, France, on May 2, 1519, and was buried in the Chapel of St. Hubert at Amboise castle, France.
After his death, suspected very strongly that he never plays a role as the strongest in a secret organization called the Priory of Sion that Knights Templar.
Many facts lead to a suspicion that the Priory of Sion is an organization that is keeping tight-tight secret history of the Christian according to different versions of the gospels circulating in the community. Secret is about who is the real messiah and the possibility of Jesus not enforcing the law of celibacy. In the version that had caused controversy is believed that the true Messiah is St. John the Baptist, it is implied from the frequency of the Da Vinci painted the Saint in the position of the index finger pointed upward to symbolize the 'Son of God'.
The genius of Leonardo visible from many areas which he mastered. He was a painter, sculptor, inventor, researcher, expert per * me * sin * s, anatomist, mathematician, plants and animals, optics, aerodynamics, and even musician reliable. He studied without limits. Of course this is not difficult because he does not work hard, he was just "having fun". To paint a human, he specifically mem * learn human anatomy.
Leonardo is probably the most insane estab * learn. When studying anatomy, he likes to go night-night, disassemble grave, and took the body of an unknown man who had almost rotten and mem * surgical. Sometimes he did it at the hospital who gave him permission. He really wanted to know why it's shaped like a human body. That way, he could make more detail in his paintings.
Some Secrets of the Mona Lisa What You Need To Know
However, his greatest work is the Mona Lisa of course. Beautiful woman painting is the culmination of all the knowledge about the coloring, light, perspective, and do not forget the human anatomy.
In the painting, he uses painting techniques are very high and difficult to imitate, sfumato, a painting technique that makes it look like a foggy, unfocused, with transitions between colors are unbelievably soft and smooth. Monalisa looks so alive, even his smile was inviting curious of all who see it until now.
Why is the Mona Lisa smiling? Why does he look so happy?
Scientists have discovered another mystery of the Mona Lisa is by determining how Leonardo Da Vinci painted her skin perfectly.
By using X-ray techniques, a team of "peeling" the famous painting layer to see how the Italian master painter was passed making it so that almost no visible change in color from light to dark.
The technique used by Da Vinci and some other Renaissance painters to achieve this subtlety is called "sfumato," with decomposition as it allowed the scientists to determine the composition and thickness of the paint layer.
Philippe Walter, a senior scientist at Le Laboratoire, Paris Centre de finely et de Restoration des Musees de France, told CNN: "This will help us to understand how Da Vinci made his painting materials and oil mixture ratio is mixed with pigments, the nature of organic material, which will help art historians. "
Walter and his colleagues used X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry to determine the composition and thickness of each layer of paint from painting the Mona Lisa in the Louvre Museum in Paris, the painting was protected by bulletproof. Art historians believe the painting was painted by Da Vinci in 1503.
They found there were several thin layers, one or two micrometers and that the increase in layer thickness for 3-40 micrometer in the darker parts of the painting. A micrometer is one thousandth of a millimeter.
This marks the presence of a painting technique that uses a layer of ice, has a very thin layer, to build a shadow on the face.
Da Vinci painted his way, "his softened transitions," is a pioneering work in Italy at the end of the 15th century, say the researchers, and is associated with creativity and research to acquire new paint formulations.
Walter said "almost no brush strokes on the Mona Lisa is invisible."
The study, reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie, also saw some other Da Vinci paintings and ultimately can help to determine when and how he painted some of his masterpieces.
However, Walter, adding: "There are still many mysteries surrounding the Mona Lisa is that we do not understand why he painted, about his motivation, just about the material .."
