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LEONARDO DA VINCI

Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance artist and engineer, known for “The first time I saw an original work of art by Leonardo da Vinci was
paintings like “The Last Supper” and “Mona Lisa,” and for inventions a field trip to London with my first Art School from Liverpool” Laird
like a flying machine. He was a Renaissance painter, sculptor, School of Art” in 1960 just before I went onto Liverpool College of

architect, inventor, military engineer and draftsman - the epitome of Art. It was called the Leonardo Cartoon and it was only just acquired

a true Renaissance man. Gifted with a curious mind and a brilliant at the National Gallery in London in 1960, The Virgin and Child
intellect, da Vinci studied the laws of science and nature, which with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist,sometimes called The
greatly informed his work. His drawings, paintings and other works Burlington House Cartoon, is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. The

have influenced countless artists and engineers over the centuries. drawing is in charcoal and black and white chalk, on eight sheets of

The Battle of Anghiari is a lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci at times paper glued together. It is now back in Italy.
referred to as, “The Lost Leonardo”, which some commentators As it was just acquired in London it was important for our Art School
believe to be still hidden beneath later frescoes in the Hall of Five to take this special field trip to view the original.

Hundred (Salone dei Cinquecento) in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. We studied Leonardo in my life study, for life drawings, we had to

Its central scene depicted three men riding raging war-horses study the limbs of the body to learn how to do three dimensional
engaged in a battle for possession of a standard. Sometime around drawing. Obviously, he was the master of drawing detail and the
October 1503, Leonardo was commissioned to paint the mural of human body. I particularly liked his drawings in the red pencil. As

The Battle of Anghiari, for the Sala del Gran Consiglio, the recently there is such an enigma behind The Lost Painting, The Battle of

rebuilt Great Council Hall of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, during Anghiari it was more intriguing to paint it; it arouses one’s curiosity
the first years of the city’s republican government. as in the Mona Lisa always captivating with an air of mystery”.

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