Highlight Notes:
As a draftsman, instead of defined lines. He chooses to lose the edge to direct focus to where he wants - the features.
First artist to apply a method to dissection in anatomical study. Done in the basement of the Santo Spirito church (just a few blocks away from the location the lecture is given!).
Compared with progression of style taken from previous last supper paintings. compositional differences.
groupings of three, center line. Feet were destroy during a sandblast in WWII, wall was miraculously saved.
Lessons from his style wasn't implemented until Raphael, founding ideas of Venetians school, and influenced Titian.
"In large works, Leonardo said it was the hands gestures that guide the viewer through the painting more so than, and even before face expressions register."
Felt inferior because of a modest upbringing in comparison to Michelangelo whose father was a nobleman with connections to the Medici.
Took from other artists, the stairs in perspective.
Revolutionized with changing from the High Renaissance style he was trained in of equally describing in detail separate objects and subjects in a painting to later developing chiaro scuro and mapping paintings out according to light and dark groupings. Master of directing focus in his compositions but also with the use of light.
he did not make a lot of paintings in his life time due to his innovative spirit and wandering mind.
as a teenager he gained notarity for his idealized figures, "a sense of classical [in the portraits] and a sense of nature [drapery]."
In the painting of angel, displays his love botany, understanding of atmospheric perspective.
Drapery study.
