LEONARDO DA VINCI GENIUS OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE CHAPTER ONE 4 Many people can do one thing well Some people can do many things well Leonardo da Vinci was a person who was good at many things He was a talented artist who created paintings draw ings and sculptures He was also a great mind in the field of science WHO WAS LEONARDO DA VINCI Leonardo da Vinci is one of the world’s most famous artists
5 Leonardo lived in Italy in the 1400s during a period of time called the Renaissance The word Renaissance means rebirth in French It was called this because there was a rebirth of interest in ancient Greece and Rome The Europeans of the Renaissance took the ideas of the ancient people and built on these ideas to develop their own The work of artists became more true to Leonardo’s painting of John the Baptist now hangs in the Louvre museum in Paris WHO WAS LEONARDO DA VINCI
6 LEONARDO DA VINCI GENIUS OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE life They designed beautiful buildings They made colorful paintings They carved SCULPTURES of impor tant people Artists scientists and inventors were encouraged in their work It was a time when new ideas had a chance to grow The Renaissance was also a time when people began to invent machines that changed the way people lived and worked For example the printing press was a new machine that made it easier to print books Leonardo stood out as one of Italy’s greatest artists of the Renais sance period His style of painting was unlike any other artist Today his Other famous artists of the Renaissance period are Michelangelo and Raphael Quick Fact SCULPTURES are pieces of art usually made by carving clay metal or stone Vocabulary Box
7 WHO WAS LEONARDO DA VINCI The Mona Lisa always attracts a big crowd of visitors to the Louvre works the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper are two of the world’s most famous paintings But Leonardo was much more than just a painter He studied many different subjects and was talented in all of them Today someone like that is known as a Renaissance man Leonardo watched humans and animals and made drawings to show how they moved
