Light
It is affected by the distance and direction from which light falls.
What is influencing the brightness of the light?
For Leonardo, the world was full of energy and natural forces.
What was the world for Leonardo?
His favourite note is on page 19.
On which page Leonardo have his favourite note?
Leonardo never painted perfect faces.
How so Leonardo wanted to show the realistic of characters faces painted by him?
Leonardo started to cut bodies of dead people
What did Leonardo start to do to learn the anatomy?
Leonardo examined humans and animals eyes.
How did he want to understand sight?
According to Leonardo, to experience and study nature in the fullest way, you need to be alone.
According to Leonardo, what do you need to experience and study nature in the fullest way?
The wind coming back hit the water and lifted it up, making a big hollow. I saw this on the sand in the river. The sand was hollowed out deeper than the height of a man.
How Leonardo describes storm on the River Arno?
Leonardo wanted to make the model's facial expressions more real.
That's what da Vinci was able to organize the whole party for?
He thought his drawings showed more clearly than words
What did Leonardo think showed things more clearly than words?
His painting would make you imagine a real experience. For example, things get bluer but also less sharp if they are farther away from you.
Why did Leonardo want to copy the way that humans see lights and colour?
Emotions themselves interested him because as an artist Leonardo wanted to be able to understand how they affected people's faces and movements.
Why did emotions interest Leonardo as an artist?
The Codex Leicester is all about the forms and power of water.
In which book Leonardo write about the forms and power of water?
He wanted to do it because in his opinion everyone expresses their emotions differently.
How so da Vinci wanted to each of the figure in the painting "The Last Supper" have a different expression?
He called them 'trees'
What did he call the shape of the veins in bodies?
Leonardo positioned things so he could examine them in a controlled way.
How did Leonardo examine how light makes shadow as it comes?
He wanted to show feelings and thoughts in his paintings and sculpture.
What did Leonardo want to show in his paintings and sculpture?
He painted room in Milan for Ludovico Sforza.
For who Leonardo painted room?
"When Leonardo wanted to draw or paint a figure, he first thought about what kind of person they were. Then, when he had decided, he went to the places where he knew people of that kind could be found. [...]"
How Leonardo's friend described the steps involved in his painting of the figures?
Leonardo met an old man who was almost dead
What happened in Florence after Leonardo started to cut bodies?
Your view on items is affected by the way light falls on them. Colour is affected brightness of the light and the darkness of shadows.
What helps the paint to bring some items into view or make them look disappear?
Leonardo showed many kinds of plants in his drawings and paintings.
What kinds of plants did Leonardo has shown in his drawings and paintings?
He wanted to use these studies in two ways - his paintings and to control the movement of water.
In how many ways he want use his studies?
He cut up more than 10 bodies
How many bodies did Leonardo cut up in 1507?