da Vinci
Tuscan town origin
Da Vinci refers to Leonardo da Vinci, the Italian Renaissance polymath renowned as painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist.
The name means "from Vinci," his birthplace near Florence.
His works include the *Mona Lisa* and *The Last Supper*.
Da Vinci has become shorthand for universal genius: He's no da Vinci, but he's creative.
Renaissance portrait, famously inscrutable
- Vitruvian ManCanonical proportions illustration
- chiaroscuroContrast technique in painting
- painterOne who applies pigment
- portraitureArt of depicting people
oil paint · canvas · brushwork · composition · perspective · fresco · palette · Annunciation
Anatomical cutting and examination
- cadaverBody for dissection
- musculatureArrangement of muscles
- skeletonInternal supportive framework
- human bodyCorporeal self
organs · physiology · anatomical drawings · autopsy · tissue · vascular · nerves · embryology
Person of rare brilliance
- intellectMental reasoning capacity
- curiosityDesire to learn
- notebooksBound blank pages
- codexAncient bound manuscript
mirror writing · observation · experimentation · interdisciplinary · scientist · engineer · architect · musician
Aircraft of any kind
- ornithopterMachine flying by wingbeats
- helicopterRotary-wing aircraft
- parachuteDrag-creating descent device
- tankLarge storage vessel
submarine · diving suit · blueprints · mechanisms · prototypes · engineering · machinery · hydraulics
Tuscan capital city
- MediciFlorentine banking dynasty
- MichelangeloFlorentine sculptor and painter
- RaphaelRenaissance painter from Urbino
- BotticelliQuattrocento painter from Florence
humanism · patronage · frescoes · classicism · Uffizi · Vatican · rebirth · quattrocento
Mona Lisa
Renaissance portrait, famously inscrutable
- Vitruvian ManCanonical proportions illustration
- chiaroscuroContrast technique in painting
- painterOne who applies pigment
portraiture · oil paint · canvas · brushwork · composition · perspective · fresco · palette · Annunciation · unfinished works
dissection
Anatomical cutting and examination
- cadaverBody for dissection
- musculatureArrangement of muscles
- skeletonInternal supportive framework
human body · organs · physiology · anatomical drawings · autopsy · tissue · vascular · nerves · embryology · comparative anatomy
genius
Person of rare brilliance
codex · mirror writing · observation · experimentation · interdisciplinary · scientist · engineer · architect · musician · mathematician
flying machine
Aircraft of any kind
- ornithopterMachine flying by wingbeats
- helicopterRotary-wing aircraft
- parachuteDrag-creating descent device
tank · submarine · diving suit · blueprints · mechanisms · prototypes · engineering · machinery · hydraulics · gears
Florence
Tuscan capital city
- MediciFlorentine banking dynasty
- MichelangeloFlorentine sculptor and painter
- RaphaelRenaissance painter from Urbino
Botticelli · humanism · patronage · frescoes · classicism · Uffizi · Vatican · rebirth · quattrocento · High Renaissance
- Italian ArtRenaissance art, Futurism, Mannerism, High Renaissance, Roman mosaics
- Renaissance ItaliansBotticelli, Raphael, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Donatello
- art museumspaintings, The Louvre, galleries, permanent collection, exhibitions
- art historyart history, Renaissance, Baroque, Impressionism, modern art
- Early ModernRenaissance, 1500s, 1600s, Reformation, sixteenth century
- RenaissanceMichelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, Mona Lisa, Last Supper
da VinciFrancis Bacon
Edvard Munch · Marcel Duchamp · Jackson Pollock · El Greco · Hieronymus Bosch
da Vinciidiot savant
Disabled person with remarkable ability
specialist · one-trick pony · monomaniac · Mark Rothko · savant