LEONARDO DE VINCI

Leonardo de Vinci



Leonardo de Vinci

 For the juvenile Florentine decorator, Leonardo de Vinci was rather emphatic with depicting things as they were seen. This naturalism was rather clear-cut in numerous of his early works and conveyed out all through his whole ensemble of parts that are attributed to his name. Leonardo was enthralled with nature. Many of his soonest sketches are of plants, blossoms, and botanicals which are comprised with large minutia and work, striving to give them the attractiveness that he skilled from them. This yearn to depict things routinely, or realistically, conveyed over into his backgrounds, his portrayal of numbers, his draperies, and his numerous other talents; sculpture, sketches, and even producing the pigments of the tints he utilised in alignment to better comprise his numbers more realistically. (Gardner 1970)

Many of these characteristics are glimpsed in one of his soonest paintings, Leonardo's 'Annunciation'. From investigation of this decorating we can glimpse this juvenile painter's yearn to decorate routinely, realistically depicting the numbers, the backdrop, the blossoms, the trees, and the niche in which the Virgin sits. This decorating, whereas some question is completely by the hand of Leonard, displays numerous of his exclusive styles. These methods he may have wise in Verrocchio's workshop, although he made his own renditions to these styles. This is clear-cut in numerous facets of the 'Annunciation' as well.

First, by looking at Leonardo's very very shrewd drapery of the bend and the Virgin we glimpse his vigilance to naturalism. Leonardo made numerous drapery investigations, numerous of which we have today, that are very conspicuously 'redone' in numerous of his works. By matching his drapery investigations to the drapery of the bend and the Virgin, it is rather apparent that they are by the identical hand. This method of drapery became a very Leonardesque ...