SPOTLIGHTS: LEONARDO DA VINCI

* Leonardo Da Vinci was born in 1452 in Italy. Born out of wedlock, he could not get education. Because of Italian law at that time children who are out of wedlock did not have the right to education and inheritance.
* Leonardo da Vinci has lived his life as a scientist, artist, architect, painter, sculptor, inventor, engineer and botanist against all these negativities. Even though it was forbidden at that time, he worked on human bodies in the morgue in the evenings. The paintings he made about human anatomy in that period were taught as long courses in medical faculties.
* Leonardo da Vinci is often credited with the first conception of the idea of contact lenses in 1508,
* He found that the atmosphere appears blue with the reflection of the lights reflected from the sun,
* The artist, who drew out a botanist aspect
* examined the rivers and winds.
* Leonardo da Vinci was born in Vinci, as the name seems to suggest.
* It is said that the woman who was in the famous Mona Lisa painting of Vinci was formed by the merger of two sides. There are many rumors about Vinci’s painting. It is known that this table is visited by the artist for about 35 years and is said to have ended in this period.
*In Mona Lisa’s painting, the woman’s facial expression blends happiness, anxiety, frightened and angry feelings. According to many art interpreters, Mona Lisa is actually an interpretation of the artist himself.
* The artist has designed battle tank, machine gun, helicopter, calculator, parachute and underwater diving equipment. These machines were not understood at that time. But da Vinci’s drawings have survived to the present day. In this period, all the machines that was designed, worked flawlessly.
* In notebooks where Da Vinci draws their designs, encrypted articles were found. In the researches, it was understood that the artist wrote these writings as mirror reading.
* There are 15 known pictures of the great artist. Many pictures are half or incomplete