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What makes Leonardo da Vinci (1471-1528) so unique is his wide range of research of different subjects while providing unseen solutions to hardly imaginable problems. Read about an alternative interpretation of his famous artworks like Mona Lisa or Vitruvian Man
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Mona Lisa
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SHATTERED IMAGES OF MONA LISA (story of a portrait)
The only reliable explanation of the 'mysterious Mona' lies within the painting itself. A painting created by a philosopher and an artist like Leonardo is not merely a beautiful image for decorating a 'Medicean saloon', but the painter's statement-his word. Leonardo literally encrypted his view of t...
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MONA LISA - Sol and Anima
Nobody knows for certain whom Leonardo’s Mona Lisa represents. Is Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo looking at us, or is it Leonardo’s girlish lover, his mother, or is it a compound image, perhaps even a hermaphrodite, representing several persons at the same time? No one knows that for certain...
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Vitruvian Man
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Vitruvian Man
Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of Vitruvian Man is one of the most popular world icons. There have been countless attempts over the years to understand the composition of Leonardo's illustration of Vitruvius' principles, but so far, the only solutions provided have been unnecessarily complicated. ...
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Origins of VITRUVIAN MAN
Vitruvius mentions that the proportional canon he describes was already used by "the ancients" without stating whom he had in mind. An example of such canon is found on the Egyptian wooden board in British Museum...
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