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The list of accomplishments of Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci is, without a doubt, impressive. When we use the term renaissance man in today’s culture, his epic standard is the measuring stick for defining that term.
According to the ubiquitous Wikipedia resource, Leonardo da Vinci was a
…painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer.
(More.)
Mona Lisa
Chief among his accomplishments are a few important pieces of art.
The Mona Lisa is probably his most famous and well-known piece, and a few years ago I tried to give an explanation for her odd and mysterious smile.
(For the uninitiated, we in the U.S. tend to toss around the slang term ‘clam’ as meaning a prominent mistake on a musical instrument. This term plays into the humor of this rendition.)
Vitruvian Man
Stepping away from the topic of clams towards the opposite side of the artistic continuum, we have da Vinci’s work The Vitruvian Man.
The name may not be familiar but the image is world-famous. It has been used in countless contexts (a cropped version of it appears at the top of this article).
Drawn by Leonardo in the late 1480’s, The Vitruvian Man represents a number of Renaissance ideals related to geometric proportion and Man’s relationship to nature. There is a deeper history worth investigating, and here is a terrific site that gives everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask.
‘Photoschlopped’
Along the lines of symmetry and proportion we have a final image. And in the true spirit of invention, I submit the term ‘Photoschlopped’ for what has transpired. (See more Photoschlopping here.)
As always, click the image for a larger view.
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