Da Vinci de Leonardo : Partie 1 des animaux de Leonardo de 2
Da Vinci de Leonardo : Partie 1 des animaux de Leonardo de 2
Par Melanie Light
Le da Vinci de Leonardo a été soutenu en 1492 à une ferme toscane dans Anchiano, Italie, près de la ville de Vinci où il a dépensé la majeure partie de son enfance. Il était le fils de Ser Piero et une fille a appelé Caterina qui travaill pour lui. Après que Leonardo soit né, le père et la mère ne sont pas restés ensemble. Ayez tout récemment les groupes de la mère de la naissance de Leonardo émergent. En 2002, Alessandro Vezzosi, directeur du musée de Vinci de da de Leonardo en Vinci, Italie, a dit la pression qu'ils avaient trouvé les ™s substantiels de Leonardo†de preuve la mère était une fille slave et pas une fille rurale, car précédemment believed.(1) Vezzosi a continué pour signaler que le père€ de ™s de Leonardoâ était un artisan qui a possédé un Caterina appelé slave femelle Moyen-Oriental. Et, selon leur découverte, quelques mois après que Caterina ait donné naissance à Leonardo, elle a été mariée au loin à un des ouvriers.
Leonardo a habité dans Anchiana et en Vinci jusqu'à ce qu'il ait été huit années. Après, il s'est déplacé à Florence avec son père. Quand Leonardo avait 14 ans, il est devenu un apprenti sous le sculpteur et le peintre célèbres Andrea del Verrocchio à Florence. Dans cette période, Verrocchio était le principal artiste florentin. Avant que Leonardo ait été entre 21 et 23 années, il était devenu un peintre très habile. Verrocchio a permis à Leonardo d'aider avec une peinture importante, le baptême du Christ (galerie d'Uffizi, Florence). Leonardo a peint le fond et l'ange d'agenouillement. On lui dit que quand Verrocchio a vu que Leonardo pourrait peindre mieux que n'importe qui il l'avait jamais vu, y compris se, a abandonné la peinture pour de bon. Verrocchio a décidé qu'il se concentrerait sur la sculpture.
On a dit que le da Vinci de Leonardo a un grand amour pour des animaux, et ses journaux illustre plus loin ceci. Il était un végétarien, au moins dans la dernière partie de sa vie (nous n'avons pas la preuve définie qu'il était un végétarien strict dans sa vie tôt). He wrote, “The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.” He also remarked, “The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”
In the 1480s, Leonardo painted Lady With The Ermine. The Lady in the painting is Cecilia Gallerani, the 17-year-old mistress of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan. She carries an ermine for three reasons. First, for the Duke of Milan, having been appointed to the Order of the Ermine by Ferdinand I of Naples, the ermine was the symbol of heraldry on his coat of arms. Second, the ermine was considered to be a symbol of virtue and purity. And finally, it was a play on Cecilia Gallerani’s name since the Greek name for ermine is “galee”.
In Leonardo’s notebooks, he wrote that the ermine eats every other day. Most likely the ermine, an animal related to the sable and weasel, stayed in the studio while the painting was being completed. In the Renaissance period, soft-hair paint brushes were made of ermine tail tips. Brushes were also made from squirrel fur and fastened into goose or hen feathers – another reason the ermine might have been at home in the studio.
Leonardo da Vinci included cats in many of his sketches. On one sheet of animal sketches in his notebook, the artist portrayed more than twenty cats, and one dragon. He drew cats in different poses, alone, with other cats, and being cuddled and held. His sketches are lively and reveal the solemn affection he had for felines.
Throughout the mid to late 1470s, Leonardo worked on a series of different studies relating to the theme of the Madonna and the Christ Child, holding a cat. It was originally thought that no paintings existed beyond his initial studies for these paintings. Recently; however, Madonna with the Cat, which is in the collection of industrialist Carlo Noya in Savona, Italy, was discovered to be a painting by none other than Leonardo.(2) The painting is based on a legend about a cat being born at the same moment as the baby Jesus.
Other sketches for paintings that feature animals and are based on a legend or myth is that of Leda and the Swan. Although no actual paintings exist, there are countless drawings. The story is that Leda was seduced by the God Zeus in the form of a swan and bore two eggs, which resulted in the creation of Helen of Troy with Clytemnestra, and Castor with Pollux.
Although there are countless studies and sketches made by Leonardo, only 13 or 14 actual paintings exist today. One of these is Madonna and Child with St. Anne, painted from 1508 to 1510. The figures depicted all relate to one another, and the baby Jesus is shown tightly holding a little lamb. Da Vinci painted the lamb with sensitivity and detail. The lamb is symbolic of Jesus Christ’s sacrificial death for mankind. Leonardo’s animal subjects are based on reality and are filled with vitality.
Sources:
1.http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,810926,00.html
2.http://www.lairweb.org.nz/leonardo/cat.html
Submitted 9/12/2006
Melanie Light is an artist and art educator. She is site owner of ArtZpet at www.artzpet.com and Petz Classic Dog Art at www.cafepress.com/petz. You will find more artwork, gifts, and information on these sites.
M. Light’s art portfolio site can be found at www.mlightart.com/.
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