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Leonardo da Vinci painted this portrait of Ginevra de' Benci, a young Florentine noblewoman who, at the age of sixteen, married Luigi Niccolini in 1474. The work may have been an engagement or wedding portrait, or it may have been commissioned by Bernardo Bembo, the Venetian Ambassador to Florence and Ginevra'sclose friend and admirer. On the reverse side of the painting, a wreath of laurel and palm encircles a sprig of juniper and a scroll bears the Latin inscription, "Beauty Adorns Virtue."
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In 1476, during the time of Leonardo’s association with Verrocchio’s workshop, Hugo van der Goes arrived in Florence, bringing the Portinari Altarpiece and the new painterly techniques from Northern Europe which were to profoundly effect Leonardo, Ghirlandaio, Perugino and others. In 1479, the Sicilian painter Antonello da Messina, who worked exclusively in oils, travelled north on his way to Venice, where an older painter, Giovanni Bellini adopted the media of oil painting, quickly making it the preferred method in Venice. Leonardo was ... later to visit Venice.
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Vitruvius, a Roman engineer of the first century B.C., influenced Leonardo da Vinci's work in architecture and ... his drawing of the human figure. One of Leonardo's drawings is called the Vitruvian Man. It is based on a model of ideal proportions which Vitruvius established.
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In 1466 Leonardo was apprenticed to one of the most proficient artists of his day, Andrea di Cione, known as Verrocchio. The workshop of this renowned master was at the centre of the intellectual currents of Florence, assuring the young Leonardo of an education in the humanities. Among the painters apprenticed or associated with the workshop and ... to become famous, were Perugino, Botticelli, and Lorenzo di Credi.
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Dr. N. Ventor, scientist-extraordinaire and inventor of a time machine, [I]s ... a big fan of Leonardo da Vinci. To thank you and your friend Carmine Chameleon for testing her time machine, she is showing you her collection of Leonardo's works.
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Leonardo's exploration of patterns, interconnecting phenomena from a vast range of fields, can now be recognized as an early precursor of today's theories of complex living systems. This pioneering scientific work was virtually unknown during his lifetime and remained hidden for over two centuries after his death, during which time Galileo became known as the "father of modern science." One cannot help but wonder how science would have evolved had Leonardo's Notebooks been known and widely studied soon after his death.
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