Yay! Leonardo Da Vinci is in Town!

2009-10-19T07:16:00.000-07:00

Finally! The exhibition is in KL.Yippey! I've been longing to go to THE EXHIBITION since I first saw

it in the

newspaper!

Well, how much do you know about Da Vinci?

A little? A lot? or A Pro?

How much you know won't matter! Just read on if you're interested.

Now, let me enlighten you on this interesting subject! I hope you won't fall asleep;D

An Introduction of "Da Vinci, the Genius" from the knowledgeable Wikipedia!

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci , April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath,scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter,sculptor,architect, botanist, musician and writer . (Wow he sure is a man with many talents!) Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention.He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote".

Born the illegitimate son of a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, at Vinci in the region of Florence, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter, Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan. He later worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice and spent his last years in France, at the home awarded him by Francis I .

Leonardo was and is renowned primarily as a painter. Two of his works, Mona Lisa and The Last Supper , are the most famous, most reproduced and most parodied portrait and religious painting of all time, respectively, their fame approached only by Michelangelo's Creation of Adam . Leonardo's drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also regarded as a cultural icon, being reproduced on everything from the Euro to text books to t-shirts. Perhaps fifteen of his paintings survive, the small number due to his constant, and frequently disastrous, experimentation with new techniques, and his chronic procrastination. Nevertheless, these few works, together with his notebooks, which contain drawings, scientific diagrams, and his thoughts on the nature of painting, comprise a contribution to later generations of artists only rivalled by that of his contemporary, Michelangelo.

Leonardo is revered for his technological ingenuity. He conceptualized a helicopter, a tank, concentrated solar power , a calculator, the double hull and outlined a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics. Relatively few of his designs were constructed or were even feasible during his lifetime, but some of his smaller inventions, such as an automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire, entered the world of manufacturing unheralded.As a scientist, he greatly advanced the state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy,civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics.

Want to know more? HOw about heading to the exhibition in KL's Pusat Sains Negara! This is your chance to witness the works of this extraordinary man in Malaysia, go now or you'll regret it later :D

Here’s a Google Earth’s view of the Pusat Sains Negara!

Pusat Sains Negara, Kementerian Sains, Teknologi dan Inovasi, Pesiaran Bukit Kiara, Bukit Kiara 50662 Kuala Lumpur. Tel:03-2092 1150 Fax:03-2092 1250

That's all, hope to see you there!

*I can't wait to go :)*

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Yay! Leonardo Da Vinci is in Town!