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Leonardo da Vinci
(b Anchiano, nr Vinci, 15 April 1452; d Amboise, nr Tours, 2 May 1519). Italian painter, sculptor, architect, designer, theorist, engineer and scientist. He was the founding father of what is called the High Renaissance style and exercised an enormous influence on contemporary and later artists. His writings on art helped establish the ideals of representation and expression that were to dominate European academies for the next 400 years. The standards he set in figure draughtsmanship, handling of space, depiction of light and shade, representation of landscape, evocation of character and techniques of narrative radically transformed the range of art. A number of his inventions in architecture and in various fields of decoration entered the general currency of 16th-century design.
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- Leonardo da Vinci... (cont.)
- performance art
- pupils
- reproductions in stained glass
- reproductive prints by others
- restorations by others
- sculpture
- Bode, Wilhelm
- Equestrian monument, §2: Early Renaissance
- Italy, §IV, 3(ii): High Renaissance sculpture, c 1480–c 1530
- Pollaiuolo, §I: (1) Antonio Pollaiuolo, §2: Small bronzes
- Statuette, §II, 1(ii)(a): 16th century: Florence and Rome
- Trivulzio, Gian Giacomo
- stage design
- tapestries
- teachers
- writings
- Allegory of art, §1: Inspiration
- Giotto, §III: Critical reception and posthumous reputation
- Italy, §III, 3(i)(a): Early Renaissance painting, c 1400–c 1500
- Italy, §XVII, 1: Historiography, 14th–16th centuries
- Perréal, Jean
- Treatise, §I, 1: Architectural: Italy, France and Spain
- on colour
- on crayons
- on decorum
- on expression
- on istorie
- on metalwork
- on painting
- on perspective
- Perception, §II, 2(i): The picture as situated object
- Perception, §II, 2(ii): Effects of non-canonical viewpoints
- Perception, §II, 2(iii): Deliberate distortions within the picture
- Perspective, §II, 2(i): Linear: Orthodox scientific
- Perspective, §III, 3: Non-linear: 16th–17th centuries
- on proportion
- on sculpture
- translated
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