Well, I am thinking he is a bit of a genius; went to visit his works at the MOSI at last.
Found out some pretty interesting stuff I never actually realised about his work.
After that lecture we had about him like back last year, I never realised how far one person's mind can expand. Not only was he a great thinker, but he was also an inventor, a scientist who invented stuff that, in the future would be great significance to us now; with the brains to boot.
I shall give you a quick intro:
He had a keen eye and quick mind that led him to make important scientific discoveries, yet he never published his ideas.
He was a gentle vegetarian who loved animals and despised war, yet he worked as a military engineer to invent advanced and deadly weapons.
He was one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance, yet he left only a handful of completed paintings
He's an idol to say the least, he encourages us to use our mind and keep trying. He was born illegitamate, so he couldn't become a doctor or a politician. We see this as an advantage anyway, because he proved to be one of the greatest minds that existed... well in my personal opninion anyway..
In the exhibition there was a whole section about the Mona Lisa which was fascinating, like where it had been, what had happened to it.. etc.
I read that on it's travels it had been kept in secret by a worker at some musuem in Italy who was a builder I think, and had flecked a bit of paint near her eye by accident.. There was some crazy Bolivian who had a thrown a rock at it... and some varnish had been removed by accident. I have seen the Mona Lisa at the Louvre, but I didn't actually look at it as much as I did at the MOSI.. as I had never realised she was wearing veil!... The colour it is today is nothing compared to what it used to look like.. she was so beautiful!... They had used infra-red to give you an idea of in some lights what she would look like. At the time, Leonardo really was a genius.. but I never realised how much of a genius he was, and he would never know how idolised he would become.
'Where the spirit does not work with the wand, there is not art.'
No comments:
Post a Comment