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Leonardo Da Vinci Mindset
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Live The Thought and Genius Of Leonardo da Vinci And Use it in Your Life
1 Curiosity And Lifelong Learning
Da Vinci carried out revolutionary work in so many areas that people who learn about this experience great admiration...
Because he believed that the endless works of nature were in a unity full of wonderful patterns, and he was curious about all of these works.
His ability to combine the humanities and hard sciences made Leonardo da Vinci the most creative person in history.
DaVinci’s scientific research influenced his art, and his art affected his scientific research.
Leonardo basically saw himself as a scientist and engineer.
He also carried out groundbreaking studies on architecture, anatomy, fossils, birds, flying machines, sculptures... Optics, botany, geology, cartography, music, and weapons.
2 Interdisciplinary Thinking
Leonardo was excelled in multiple disciplines.
• Leonardo da Vinci's works in the field of anatomy caused him to create solid patterns.
• Mathematics and geometry studies caused it to provide temporal depth effect.
• Botanical works have caused nature and plant studies to adapt to the principles of reality.
According to Leonardo, a painter had to be a good anatomist.
When drawing a human being, he would first draw the bones, then the muscles, then the skin. Then he would wrap it in fabrics.
He also investigated how psychological emotions reflected physical movements and was curious about how the nervous system worked.
He took lessons from anatomy experts, especially in Milan.
He studied books and learned how to dissect.
In other words, he cut dead human and animal bodies to investigate the structure of muscles, bones and vessels. He measured body proportions and made lots of drawings.
He also understood that the human brain processes the stimuli it receives through the senses and sends responses to the muscles through the nervous system.
In his notes he jotted down many questions that puzzled him.
For example:
Which nerve causes the eye to move?
Which tendon makes the thigh move?
How does human life begin in the womb? There were hundreds of questions.
Leonardo was not content to just measure every part of the body in every direction. He also studied how the movement of a joint had a knock-on effect on other parts of the body.
To do this, he had his assistants and models in his workshop move, rotate, squat, sit and lie down.
In short, Leonardo's curiosity about anatomy was endless and would be reflected in his art.
3 Appreciation For Nature
Leonardo did not receive a good formal education.
Little Leonardo's school was in the fields, fields and forests around the farmhouse.
Leonardo was taught by his uncle Francesco, who passed on to him his personal theory of nature.
His theory consisted of observations, proofs and verifications, and above all, love for all created things.
He often went with his nephew to the river, walked in the forest and showed him how insects metamorphose.
He was good at geometry, but he was not good at the basic algebra of the time or equations.
He never learned Latin properly either. But his lack of formal education turned him into a lover of experience and experimentation. It made him a free thinker, not a traditionalist. He was thus freed from an education aimed at imposing medieval dogmas.
4 Creativity And Innovation
The spread of the printing press helped Leonardo to study war instruments and develop new ideas after he came to Milan.
He benefited from the books of famous scientists and engineers of the period for some of the ideas he developed.
Some of these ideas were:
1 - a terrifying scythed chariot:
It was a complete killing machine, with its terrifying rotary blades coming out of the wheels and its four-blade rotary shafts that could be attached to the front and back. This drawing by Leonardo did not just depict a killing machine. It was also a work of art of tremendous beauty.
Galloping horses, cloaked consciousnesses, enemies with torn bodies.
2 - The giant crossbow he painted in Milan:
He had made more than 30 drawings and meticulously detailed the gears, screws, shafts, triggers and other mechanisms.
We can see the size of this huge machine, which is 24 meters long, from the soldier on it.
5 Attention To Detail
St. Jerome, now on display in the Vatican Museum.
In this painting we can clearly see his desire to connect the revolutions of the body with the revolutions of the soul.
This work depicts the 4th century scholar St. Jerome in the desert, where he is in seclusion.
The haggard saint, reduced to bones, seems ashamed as he pleads for forgiveness.
St. Jerome is da vinci's painting in which his desire to depict emotion is at its most intense.
This painting is also Leonardo's first anatomical drawing.
For him, it was essential for a painter to know the anatomy of nerves, bones, muscles and tendons.
That's why he made dissections on cadavers and put his anatomical discoveries on paper.
6 Intellectual Fulfillment
Leonardo Milano was also interested in music.
His notebooks contained no musical compositions, but were full of original, fantastic instrument designs.
Instead of playing notation or writing lyrics, he improvised during his performances at the Sforza Palace.
He developed his own original design.
This was a kind of lyre that was held like a violin.
He sang exquisite songs accompanied by this instrument, miraculously entertaining all the princes...
When Leonardo visited Venice in 1500, there were nearly a hundred printing houses in the city and a total of 200 million books had been printed.
Thanks to Gutenberg's printing technology, which reached Italy, he was able to broaden his interests.
In this way, he became the first great European thinker to have a serious knowledge of Science, even without a formal Latin or Greek education.
In 1492, Leonardo owned nearly 40 books.
He had access to many sources such as military machines, painting, architecture, agriculture, music, surgery, health, Aristotelian science, and the works of Arab physicists.
In 1504, 70 more books would be added to this list, bringing his library to a total of 40 scientific works, nearly 50 poetry and literature, 10 art and architecture, 8 religion... and three mathematics books.
So the old Leonardo was gone, replaced by a Leonardo hungry for knowledge from books. He finally realized that it was more useful to combine experiment and theory.
7 Resilience And Perseverance
One of Leonardo's most famous drawings: The Vitruvian Man.
Marcus Vitruvius Polia was an engineer who served in the Roman army under Caesar.
What made Vitruvius' work so attractive to Leonardo was its emphasis on the relationship between the human microcosm and the macrocosm of the world.
Leonardo was deeply committed to this analogy in both his art and science.
He wrote these famous lines at the time. The ancients called man a small world. This expression is apt because the human body is like the earth.
Vitruvius applied this analogy to the design of temples and wrote in the introduction to his third book.
The design of a temple is based on symmetry. There must be a perfect relationship between its components, as in a human being with a shaped body. These descriptions inspired Leonardo.
And Leonardo set about compiling a similar set of measurements as part of his anatomy studies, which he began in 1489. This led to Leonardo's version of the Vitruvian man.
8 Emotional Well-Being
"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death." L. DA VINCI
When Leonardo was painting his last supper, people would come and sit quietly in a corner, just to watch him work.
Leonardo would usually arrive early in the morning to paint, climb the scaffolding, and from sunrise to sunset he would not put down the brush, forgetting to eat or drink, working non-stop on the painting.
But sometimes, after one or two brush strokes, he would quit and spend the whole day idle. Because he knew that creativity and inspiration were not always upon him.
Ludovico was impatient, but he knew not to interfere too much with the painter's work. Patience paid off and the result is one of the most fascinating and expressive paintings in history, incorporating the most diverse elements of Leonardo's daia.
9 Problem-Solving
When Leonardo landed in Milan, the city was under the rule of Ludovico Sforza.
Leonardo immediately wrote a letter to the Duke to get a job.
In this letter, he emphasized his claim to be an expert in military engineering rather than his artistic personality.
Because he knew that the Sforzo dynasty, which seized power by force, could face the constant threat of internal rebellion or French invasion.
That way he could attract Ludovico's attention.
While living in Florence, he drew some cleverly designed instruments of war. One of these was a mechanism developed to knock down the ladders of enemy soldiers trying to climb the castle wall.
Those defending the castle had to pull large arms attached to rods coming out of holes in the wall.
Another idea he developed in connection was a propeller-like device used to cut down enemies who managed to get to the top of the castle wall.
He benefited from the books of famous scientists and engineers of the period for some of the ideas he developed.
One of these ideas was a terrifying scythed chariot.
It was a complete killing machine, with its terrifying rotary blades coming out of the wheels and its four-blade rotary shafts that could be attached to the front and back.
This drawing by Leonardo did not just depict a killing machine.
It was also a work of art of tremendous beauty.
Galloping horses, cloaked consciousnesses, enemies with torn bodies. All of them demonstrated a mission and modeling worthy of being exhibited in a museum.
As a result, Leonardo entered Ludovico Sforza's entourage not as an architect or engineer, but as an empresario, that is, a show producer.