![]() Made some wings of the scales of other lizards and fastened them on its back with a mixture of quicksilver, so that they trembled when it walked and having made for it eyes, horns, and a beard, he tamed it and kept it in a box.įor Vasari, these stories show Leonardo’s “marvelous and divine” mind, but they could also be interpreted as showing the instrumental way in which Leonardo thought about nature, as a resource to expand human knowledge and control the environment. In other tales, Vasari tells us how Leonardo, while he was working for Giuliano de’ Medici in Rome, discovered an unusual lizard and promptly Landscape drawing dated 5 th August 1473 by. It is the first artistic work of Leonardo's that is dated and can definitely be attributed to him. Detail of the inscription in Figure 1, saying D de Sta Maria della Neve, a di 5 daghosto, 1473. ![]() The landscape drawing probably shows the view from Montalbano onto the Valdinievole area and the swamps of Fucecchio. In the upper left-hand corner of the drawing, in the earliest known example of his handwriting, Leonardo wrote, Di di santa Maria della neve addi 5 daghossto. Vasari talks of how Leonardo “suffered much in doing it” - but not as much as the other species whose lives were sacrificed for his art. File:Leonardo da vinci, Landscape drawing for Santa Maria della Neve on 5th August 1473.jpg (file redirect) File:Paisagem do Arno - Leonardo da Vinci. Landscape drawing for Santa Maria della Neve on 5th August 1473. Vasari tells a story of the young Leonardo seeking to depict a frightening creature on a shield he had “brought for this purpose to his room, which no one entered but himself, lizards, grasshoppers, serpents, butterflies, locusts, bats, and other strange animals of the kind …” “The smell in the room of these dead animals was very bad, though Leonardo did not feel it from the love he bore to art.” His own quest for knowledge and artistic creativity demanded it. 1500: Drawing of the Torso and the Arms, c. Drawing of the comparative anatomy of the legs of a man and a dog, c. ![]() ![]() Still, Leonardo does not seem to have been particularly concerned about the role of humans in enacting violence against other species. Landscape drawing for Santa Maria della Neve, 1473: Woman’s Head, c. ![]()
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