Donatello (Sculptor) and
Leonardo (Inventor, Artist,
and Scientist)
Born in Florence in 1386; died in 1466
 Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi
 Made sculptures in bronze and marble
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Donatello’s Biography
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Statue of
Donatello in
Florence
Started doing stonecarving around 1400
in a Florence cathedral
 Created two marble statues
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 “St. Mark” and “St. George”
Donatello’s work
St. Mark
 2.36 meters high
 In a Florence
Church
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St. George
 2.09 meters
High
 In a Florence
Church
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It was once said a blind man could touch
one of his statues and know what it was
feeling
 He did some work in bronze on the tomb
of Pope John XXIII
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He did a lot of work with Filippo
Brunellesci (later became rivals)
 Cosimo de Medici was one of Donatello’s
friends and patrons
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Born in 1452 near Florence and died in
1519 in France
 Some feel this is a
Self-portrait
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Bio
He painted the “Mona Lisa” around 1506
 It can now be found
at the Louvre in Paris
 Mona was a polite way
of saying “Madame”
 In climate controlled,
bullet proof display
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His Work
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He painted the “Last Supper” in 1498
(Church in Milan)
Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
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From 1482-1499, he lived in Milan
1499-1519
 Mantua (1500)
 Venice (1501)
 Florence (1501-1506)
 Milan (1506-1513)
 Rome and Florence (1514)
 Pavia, Bologna and Milan (1515)
 France (1516-1519)
Da Vinci’s “Nomadic Period”
He created over 13,000 pages of notes
and drawings
 Lacked formal education in Latin and
Mathematics
 Tried flying in 1496, but failed
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Doing Da Vinci
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Leonardo also thought of early blueprints
for weapons of war (against war)
 Machine guns
 Tank (driven by humans or horses)
 Submarine
 Flame thrower
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Leonardo’s tank design
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Leonardo also wrote from right to left and
was left-handed
 Maybe to make his notes harder to read
 Would not smear the ink
 Would pull the pen instead of pushing
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Write Like Leonardo
Try Writing Like Da Vinci
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Leonardo’s tomb in France
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YOUTUBE
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Geekologie
Making of the Mona Lisa Video