Leonardo Da Vinci

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One of his artistic innovations was the creation of Vitruvian Man. This painting was the first of its kind because it outlined how the human body should be correctly proportioned when painted or drawn. Before Leonardo created Vitruvian Man, artists depicted the human body in an unrealistic, unbalanced not proportional way. From his drawing, Leonardo was able to create a guideline which immediately became a guide for all artists to use in their works in order to create more realistic works and it is still used today.
The creation of the Vitruvian Man drawing was only possible because of Leonardo�s fascination with the human body. In his spare time, he would secretly dig up bodies and dissect them, just so he could observe and record his findings to then be able to use in his works of art. This was the foundation of a brand new science called anatomy. Leonardo�s research became a very important source for medical purposes, because they laid out the human body�s bone and muscle ...

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picture was made called Mona Lisa Smile. Both of these techniques have greatly influenced modern art, literature, and movies.
Da Vinci had developed a way to cast a bronze monument on a mass scale. He studied cannon and bell makers and watched them pour the bonze to come up with his new way to pour it. He planned to make a twenty-four foot bronze horse that was supposed to be the symbol for the aristocratic House of Sforza that would have been the biggest bronze monument ever to be cast. He only made the pre-model for the horse made out of clay and never casted the horse in bronze. The new way to mass cast bronze led to bigger monuments being made even though the horse was never ...

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