The Italian Renaissance: Leonardo Da Vinci

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You will be learning from this website about the true Renaissance man: Leonardo Da Vinci. By
using this graphic organizer and the link above, you will learn about Leonardo Da Vinci as the
artist, the inventor, and the scientist. In each section, answer the questions provided;
1. A summary of the section
2. The impact of one selected item
3. How it relates to the ideals of humanism
Students should work individually to answer each of the sections. Three bullet points of 1-2
sentence will be enough to answer the sections

Davincis success as
an artist stems from his
ability to create lifelike
and realist portraits of
Summary nature and people.
The Vitruvian man
of the utilizes the
mathematical golden
Content ratio perspective to get
perfect proportional
Da Vinci drawing.
Impact of Da Vincis painting
the selected work displayed the humanist
value and ideology of
Artist depicting realism and
humanity as it is and
not through religious
metaphors or icons.
Humanism
 Da Vinci became a
successful inventor simply
by learning the exact
mechanics of certain
Summary inventions, deconstructing
them, and reapplying his
of the modifications. Through
sketches, he detailed what
Content his inventions looked like
Leonardos invention
Da Vinci journal was noted for being
Impact of written backwards. By
the selected work writing backwards, it
allowed for people not to
Inventor copy his work.
Da Vincis passion for
innovation is central to
humanist belief of humans
advancing and trying to
Humanism create a better world .
 Influenced by the Greeks and
Romans, Da Vinci relied on
studying nature to seek answers
through experimentation and not
Summary rely on religious text for answers.
His research influenced the fields
of the of zoology, biology, and
aerodynamics
Content His study of the cervical vertebra
Da Vinci and close written details from all
perspectives created the
Impact of
the selected work
systematic study of sciences of
having a hypothesis, testing
Scientis results, collecting data, and
publishing results.
t Da Vincis inspiration from Greek
and Roman text influenced him to
search for natural truths and
Humanism scientific reasoning were
essential of the individualist
humanist ideology that did not
rely on the Bible for answers