leonardo

This segment of video[1] progresses from Leonardo DaVinci's flying machines to a relativistic space craft in about 7 minutes.

One example, widely misattributed to Leonardo da Vinci: Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Instead, he sells his prospective employer on what Leonardo can do for him.

Jeremy Avigad (CMU) and Leonardo de Moura (MSR), with help of many contributors.

Did Leonardo only use paintbrushes to write in his notebooks?

I don't think the Leonardo has BLE [1] nor does wireless firmware flashing?

What you ougth to do, in order to not be beheaded by the king, is to be sure that Leonardo and the other painters has everything they need, of best possible quality and there is not a single obstacle on the horizon.

Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance.

Also, I'm interested in what you would say about the difference between art created by a single person (say Leonardo da Vinci, or any great painter) or art created by a whole army of people (say Pixar, or any of the movie/animation studios).

Imagine Leonardo "going Agile" on Mona Lisa in order to speed up the process.

But the point isn't the literal words, it's that "sophistication" is a modern concept that would have seemed strange and probably repugnant in Leonardo's time.

Sidenote: While Hogarth observes this as an important regulating idea in the work of Michelangelo, he explicitly complains the lack of any notion thereof in Leonardo's contemporary "Trattato della Pittura".

> One example, widely misattributed to Leonardo da Vinci: Whoever believes that in the first place is also mistaken that such concepts/wording as "sophistication" actually existed at the time.

Leonardo existed in an age where the key players were few and everyone of import knew each other.

During the scene where Kate Winslet poses topless for Leonardo, the artist, I was sitting next to a couple with their 8-or-9-ish year old children.

Leonardo da Vinci - An independent self learner who was accomplished in art and engineering.