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to. subscribe. documentary to. hello and a very warm welcome to this special edition of arts and culture special because we are concentrating on one subject indeed one man none other than leonardo da vinci who painted the most famous picture in the world the mona lisa this year is the 500th anniversary of his death he's still considered the greatest painter of all time and yet perhaps only around 15 or so paintings of his have survived to this

day this is extraordinary when you think of the influence he has had on the artistic world since then this important anniversary is being marked in many different ways throughout the world. leonardo di said pietro da vinci borne an illegitimate child on april 15th 1452 in and ciano italy a tuscan polymath was a man a head of his time and his discoveries in art and science change the course of history and 500 years on the world is celebrating. digital onto a with the giants of the renaissance. was always a visionary. he anticipated things that were only invented years after his death. i believe that if you were alive today he would have developed many of his

inventions using digital techniques. and maybe he would have projected a new holographic flying machine into this or that more said about it like here at the fabric of dell the poor a museum in milan leonardo da vinci 3 d. even let's visit his meet the man himself the immersive exhibit links the past with the present and gives views the opportunity to experience many of da vinci's creations all under one roof. the exhibition at the queen's gallery in london draws together the threads of the renascence man's feverish curiosity these drawings gave davinci room to explore the universal laws he believed underpinned all of creation. the drawings show that leonardo was a serious practitioner of sculpture architecture engineering. scientist in many different fields he saw himself as a fully rounded figure drawing is the activity that pulls it all together. the

collection has been together since the artist's death and provides an insight into the masters in workings. weaving davinci this tapestry woven purely of silk with gold and silver thread is inspired by davinci as the last supper to mark the anniversary the vatican museum hosted a study day to coincide with the conclusion of a year and a half of restoration work on the 500 year old cloth between the it's probably one of the earliest interpretations of the great last supper of leonardo in milan. one of the earliest but it certainly wasn't the last the last supper is the most reproduced painting of all time. to vinci italian artist daddio gum bought and took 8 hours ploughing lines and curves to complete the portrait the work measured 27 square kilometers but it didn't last

long it was dug under a few days later. and are joined by the author of that revolt melissa holroyd 500 years after 500 years what is the most. he's most remembered as an artist and also as an inventor as a scientist his work in anatomy was hundreds of years ahead of its time also what he has told us in terms of flight yeah that was only really explored at the start of the last century they also are very very important questions he asked why is the sky blue how does the hot work how does the valves in the hopwood what is a sneeze what is a your own why do we shiver when my cold never seemed to be no stopping them i'm ready yeah i'm also because he was such an insatiable polymath he also told us

a lot about the integration of these different disciplines and to think that this was all 500 years ago. ok but here we are 500 years ahead and there has been a discussion of that he was such a genius and he maybe had a t.h.d. this attention deficit hyperactivity disorder but you think. i think he's sure he frustrated a lot of people who commissioned him to do work he sometimes he took years to finish things sometimes he never finished things he even got you know got slack from the pope the pope got on his case he was employed for 3 years by the vatican and then after 3 years they said that's enough and the pope said of him alas this man will never do and never do anything for he begins by thinking of the end of the work before the beginning so he was in that he was in the torrijos extensive plan a starting and not finishing he was also left handed and there's also evidence to

suggest that he was dyslexic and both of these things are associated with 80 h.d. ok but despite all this frustration from people things don't get finished he did get loads of commissions though didn't he because he was so good i mean he wasn't a rich man but he was constantly working and he was working on a huge of a of thing. from designing pageants to designing people's bathrooms as far as his inventions go some of that is disputed a fair amount of that is still disputed while his artistic work is well documented his some of his scientific stuff is not so well documented a german author mathias called he doubts whether he was responsible for all the inventions that are tributed to him and he also says that they didn't all work there is a tank for example which functions by a crank and and says that the crank actually means that the wheels turn in the

wrong direction ok so let's find out about this more about this side of leonardo. as something that was tension in the 1920 s i am wrong in for. it was in the early 20th century that the image of later nardo as inventor which he himself never claimed to be 1st emerged driven by benito mussolini to support his fascist ideology the dictator recast davinci as a universal genius and a leading figure of italian creative strength was done and was initiated an exhibition not just initiated he ordered it to be and it was done and for that exhibition models were created from the vinci sketches for the 1st time. models that simply ignored errors in the original sketches the exhibition travelled from milan to the u.s. and then to japan where it was destroyed in an air raid. amazingly the exhibition

is gone you need is gone is gone. colts the cult of leonardo the inventor has remained mute this if enough leonardo is complete and that mythology continues to this day. now melissa we don't know how many paintings is this i said 15 or so you think it could be 20 there's lots of discussion about that but he did have these books notebooks 7000 pages of drawings and inventions and all that stuff and he's not really still known as a painter yeah and still there is some doubt about some of those his famous painting the savant so bottle monday has had a long history and for a long time it was lost and then it was found again and some experts doubt whether it's a real devinsky they sought the position of the of the city and they also cite the lack of landscape in the background some say it's probably from the division she

workshop and the davinci might have had his hand in that he might have said he might have painted the harrell something. a real davinci novel it's still sold at a whopping $450000000.00 at auction mazie i mean your name davinci just adds no stood so the price of anything doesn't yeah it sure does and some experts say that that is partly because of the timing with davinci and things being able to be copied at the time that sort of has also contributed to how well we know him and his fame ok now let's have a look then at his most famous work of course we're talking about the priceless. mona lisa. léonard davinci spent more than 3 years painting portraits of the young woman art historians still don't know exactly who she was. her contours are soft and undefined vinci called

this technique. which means in the manner of smoke. her eyes seem to fall of the viewer her smile is but the slightest suggestion. her hands rest patiently one on top of the other. they can make big division she's brilliant technique and his ability to contrast light and dark when the piece life. mona lisa sits upright is what you get the sense she is about to smile so we can put all the opposite that she's closing her mouth we don't know one senses that she might want to say something and communicate through. the original is on show in paris france has been on permanent display at the luther museum for more than 200 years. she's house on the 1st floor in room 6 of the den only protecting my think pain of bulletproof glass. i don't know what if we measure. the mona lisa as the one

painting in the louvre that everyone wants to see more sexual now every day between 203-0000 sometimes 50000 people will come to see her or at least trying to see her . with 50000 visitors you have to be pretty patients try and get a close look up or ship to ship. her secrets smile is timeless and mona lisa has become a modern icon of western art her face never goes out of style. and she's got to be the most famous woman in the world yet people still don't know who she is exactly and why she was painted she has this mystical. secret aura and i think that's part of the reason why she's so compelling pete the people who use the images image advertises and what have you i think they don't want to find out the

secret behind the mona lisa it's also a great image because there's an element of promise there it's like she's coming full she's not sort of coming forward and she's not really going back there is something in between that we're looking at the great to tune. the environmentalist he she is out of as mona lisa i think they chose her because they probably think that his lot is a little bit like mine elise is small but i think greatest smile is much sweeter than mine and lisa's ok melissa holroyd it's been very interesting thank you very much for joining us and thank you for choosing into our special edition of arts and culture on a man who despite all the mess a non-answer questions about him is undoubtedly one of the greatest minds who have graces and i hope you'll be able to see an event or exhibition about him big or small wherever you are in this special anniversary year we leave you with mona lisa once again but with twists to the original goodbye.

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