HISTART 62 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Cecilia Gallerani, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Vitruvian Man
16 Nov 2016
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Leonardo da vinci"s writings and artistic heritage suggest that individual thought, a creative spirit, and objective, scientific knowledge are not mutually exclusive, but rather interdependent. The sfumato and other features in leonardo"s style depend on his conviction that all our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. For their rich visual and intellectual complexity, it is worthwhile to de-familiarize world-renowned works such as leonardo"s mona lisa. The discussion around an artistic paragone would become increasingly influential long after leonardo"s death; despite his advocating of one art over the others, he practiced all of them. Most of leonardo"s work has not published in any form during his lifetime. Some or most of it might not have been written for anyone but himself. In the following generation, a thinker and scientist such as. Giordano bruno was burned for defending his cosmological studies and beliefs under the inquisition for heresy .
