Leonardo da Vinci and The Renaissance

Thesis Statement

The paper focuses on Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. The paper discusses the style of Leonardo da Vinci. The paper depicts the style that Leonardo wants to convey through his art. The paper describes the impact of Renaissance on the work of Leonardo da Vinci. The paper also describes his painting portraying Jesus and Christ as a last supper. The paper ends with my personal view on his work and style.

His art work

The Renaissance, however, is not an atheist but it is pervaded by a religious nature, God is in nature that man wants to rule out or resorting to magic. This explains the anxiety of perfection in the investigation of nature that Leonardo da Vinci, the prototype of the Renaissance man, with all its contradictions. Leonardo wants to find God and know him in the perfection of nature and art that imitates wonderfully. Leonardo was fascinated by water and air, mobile and vital elements from which he tries to steal the secret of life. For the same reason, fascinated by the perfect mechanism of the human body that studies, dissects and draws vital to discover the gears. Assists to death without suffering a poor old Centenary hospital in Florence, but his human compassion is overwhelmed by the desire to understand and will soon after that body to pieces to discover the secrets of that sweet death (Mathews 2010, 347).

Characteristics of his artistic style

The works of Leonardo, many of which remained unfinished, are not numerous, but for their extraordinary changes have exerted a great influence on the painting of subsequent centuries. In early paintings Leonardo adhered to the style of Verrocchio, but also resented the influence of Flemish art in the rendering of light and developed a particular interest in the representation of nature, to conceive of painting as a real science, which is useful for understanding and accurately depict the natural phenomena. Adoration of the Magi introduced a new kind of composition, with very complex articulation of the scene, in which the variety of events is coordinated through movement and gestures of the figures.

The novelty of the style of Leonardo is even more evident in the Upper Room, where the traditional theme of the Last Supper made ??in a whole new way. The painter painted the apostles three at a time, in dynamic compositional units around the image of Christ, who, isolated in the center, announces that one of them will betray him. The serenity of the excitedly Christ contrasts with the expression of all the other characters, who react excitedly to the Master's words. The representation of the environment in which the event occurs through the illusion of real space which is placed within the painting (Genoni 2010, 2).

The portrait of the Mona Lisa is famous for the virtuosity of the performance, both for the mystery of the smile of the woman portrayed. In the realization of the portrait Leonardo made ??use of two basic techniques of painting, which is considered ...