daVinci Thursday

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This week concludes our "Tribute to the Masters" in honoring Leonardo daVinci.
We proclaim today to be "daVinci Thursday" at Renderosity!

The earliest known dated work of Leonardo's is a drawing done in pen and ink of the Arno valley, drawn on August 5, 1473. It is assumed that he had his own workshop between 1476 and 1478 , receiving two orders during this time.

Leonardo started to discover the anatomy of the human body at the time he was apprenticed to Andrea del Verrocchio, as his teacher insisted that all his pupils learn anatomy. As he became successful as an artist, he was given permission to dissect human corpses at the hospital Santa Maria Nuova in Florence . Later he dissected in Milan at the hospital Maggiore and in Rome at the hospital Santo Spirito (the first mainland Italian hospital). From 1510 to 1511 he collaborated with the doctor Marcantonio della Torre (1481 to 1511). In 30 years, Leonardo dissected 30 male and female corpses of different ages. Together with Marcantonio, he prepared to publish a theoretical work on anatomy and made more than 200 drawings. However, his book was published only in 1680 (161 years after his death) under the heading Treatise on painting . Leonardo also dissected cows, birds, monkeys, bears, and frogs, comparing their anatomical structure with that of humans.

Leonardo was well educated in a wide variety of fields including anatomy, architecture, sculpture, engineering, mathematics, music, science, and painting. He has been widely acknowledged as the "Renaissance man". He was endlessly inquisitive and constantly inventive. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time. His genius was not fully realized until his inventions proved feasible long after his death. Leonardo is among most intelligent and capable men to ever have graced the planet.*

For more information and interesting facts on Leonardo daVinci, one of the Great Masters of all time, please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DaVinci

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