Inventor, artist, scientist, engineer, sculptor, anatomist, biologist, musician, architect, philosopher ….. Leonardo da Vinci was all of these things!
Did u know? He was born an illegitimate but because of that he wrote with his left hand and in mirror-image! He was never taught so never corrected on this.
Super impressed at the simplicity of the motivation behind his works and his research. A simple solution to a simple problem! To measure humidity, he used a balance where on one side he placed some wax, and on the other a material that is ultra absorbent of moisture. so when the scale tips, we know that the humidity level has increased! *~tada!~*
I'm truly inspired now~
Unfortunately no photos were allowed but i sneaked 2 shots of the paintings which i had always been excited about~
Many thanks to Pascal Cotte, French scientific engineer and photographer of fine art, invented a 240-million pixel camera to photograph the Mona Lisa in the Louvre, allowing for the most accurate recreation of the masterpiece for the very first time in its original colour and the unveiling of 25 startling revelations.
Did u know? Leonardo da Vinci spent 3 years observing people on the streets to capture the expressions which he could use in the painting.
Did u know? The secret was that Mona Lisa was painted without eyebrows and eyelashes and that had remained a mystery. But they've found now that it could be that the painting deteroriated so much the eyebrows cannot be seen since now they've found traces of the possibility that Mona Lisa was in fact painted with eyebrows.
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