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Leonardo, (1452-1519) - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Rely on works of authoritative ancient masters
    - - Artists were not so limited, they could just try, observe and start anew
  - - - every detail in the picture matters
        
        optical illusion which was based on some empirical experience, not on theoretical knowledge
        
        Analysis
    - - it’s someone who observe the reality through his work, who is an engineer. Art can stand at the same level as poesy or mathematics.
      - Synthesys
      - The picture is not claimed to be part of vision but is indeed the artist's construction, an expression in paint
  - - - created the linear perspective and introduced antique order system to the architecture in Florence.
        
        Mathematic principles
        
        He used antic principles but made new combinations out of them
    - - studied antique architecture and art, popularized them
      - On painting , 1435: the dead
        Meleager is carried... , every part of his body appears
        dead..., anyone able to portray every part of a body as
        lifeless will be an excellent artist
        
        The death of Meleager, detail from sarcophagus
        reliefs, 2 AD,
  - - - to study drapes showing the silhouette of the body or to study parts of the human body
      - Colleoni sculpture - expressive, learning anatomy
    - - studied the inner structure of the body and was passionate about the form without paying much attention to the subject
    - - many quotations of ancient Roman culture
    - - More of abstraction, it refers to texts
- - - - sketches – a play of light, childs and cats’ spontaneous unpredictable movements
        
        Visual research
        
        Lines should't be determined - it's an active seeing - sfumato
        
        Shadows help to show the unstability and changing character of life
        
        He tries to catch the moment