Why Leonardo da Vinci was a Scientist, not an Artist 

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If people 500 years later can't decide if you're the best artist or best engineer or best scientist in history, you've led a good life.

Guy is just a total badass, he studied biology, physics, chemistry, and mathematics just to create the perfect painting. On top of that he is an excellent engineer and architect. What more could you ask for?

I cant imagine what it'd be like to be hundreds of years ahead your time at THIS moment in history. What kinds of ideas would you need to think of to be that advanced with our current knowledge?

Also, the mysterious smile isn’t just mysterious because of his knowledge of anatomy. He understood how our eye readjusts the values of a scene depending on where you look, e.g. your periphery is blurry. So he basically played with that concept and created a smile that disappears and reappears.

Vinci was the kid every asian parents want Edit: wow! tnx for all the like..✌️

Science is just a process, art is the outcome. DaVinci was so thorough about science and used the scientific thinking to create art pieces.

The greatest irony in Painting is that the two arguably greatest technically gifted painters - Leonardo and Michelangelo - actually disliked painting and viewed it as a laborious vocation. Leonardo preferred scientific pursuits while Michelangelo preferred sculpting… Also, Leonardo likely never published his scientific work because it likely would have had him excommunicated and branded a heretic by the Catholic Church…which could have had him executed. He studied the cadavers in secret in the middle of the night.

Thank you Cindy. Da Vinci was light years ahead of everyone.

He was an artist , engineer , doctor , scientist , mathematician ... He must have been Jonny Sin of his time .

Artist, Scientist, Engineer all in one. Leonardo of Vinci was truly remarkable.

He was the true genius. My exploration about him was up after I saw Davinci Code movie. He was a scientist, doctor, artist, writer, and a philosopher at the same time. Imagine he lives in today's era, many works of his will be used for humanity.

Before watching the whole video, I already know this will be a good one!

For Leonardo, art was science; science was art.

Davinci's works were so formidable because of his artistic training. There really wasn't a difference between Artist and Scientist during periods like the Renaissance because all of the greatest engineers and thinkers were also some of the greatest artists. That's why STEM is such a weak curriculum because it cuts out the heart of what made the Renaissance thinkers so ingenuitive. STEAM curriculum (Science, Tech, Engineering, Fine Arts, and Math) is a much more fully and accurate concept and curriculum set up as colleges are seeing a nearly 30% dropout rate in STEM related majors because those students never had a fully developed education. The fact that so many people don't understand this is frustrating because it continues to devalue art in society when artists used to be more powerful than royalty.

When I think of Leonardo da Vinci I think of the assassins creed missions man those were some good days

Leonardo may be one of the most diversely gifted geniuses in history

Not going to lie, was totally expecting a comparison between Elon Musk and DaVinci ... and ever so happy when it didn't happen.

the reason i respect him so so much is because when i was in middle school i read a book about him and it said Leonardo was handsome, muscular, good voice, inventor and an artist and much more more. imagine someone being so perfect in every way possible

Another Demigod who graced our planet.. Now that's a brain working at its full potential. What a man!

I beg to differ, he was a polymath, which means he had many different areas of discipline, it is possible to be both you know

He proved that he could make science, mathematics, and engineering fun and turn them into a beautiful kind of art!!!

Video game developers and designers are the new da Vinci. Because they are the one who blends art, music, technology and imagination all together.

Girl, you and those transitions to the sponsored ad are like butter. I was 10 seconds in before I knew it was happening. Good stuff as always!

From what I have heard Leonardo da Vinci during his time as much as famous person he was for his greatness he was also very controversial and I don’t think people of that time the public of that time would be accepting of his methods of dissecting corpses like they were super religious

The Synonym of Genius is Leonardo Da Vinci.

He was both that’s why he was a renaissance man he has multiple talents and skills

I went to the Leonardo da Vinci's Musume in Florence once, it was shocking to see many of his notes and models, he is almost like an engineer.

Just amazing, Animations,editing,picture quality,language,voice everything... Underrated channel

Misleading title. Da Vinci was an artist at heart. Through careful observation and a need to understand the truth of what he was recreating he made discoveries which at the time were scientifically progressive. From a technical aspect, capturing the world around us is one of the essences of being an artist. Perhaps because of the ignorance of the general public at the time these observations would have been seen as scientific since the aforementioned skill is attributed to it as well. But da Vinci was undoubtedly very smart and talented. And what does it mean to be an artist? Science and art are two branches of the same tree. Don’t put them against each other like in the title.

A very educational video now that we have spent three decades questioning his inventive genius in science and his inconstant character. Leonardo was also a great draftsman and anatomist. What is moving is not Leonardo but your persistent LOVE for Leonardo. It is not the kiss on the mouth or on the neck of the couple that one can look away from, but the complicity and the fact that they are literally glued all the time in a superhuman way. I'm talking about love, I'm not talking about descriptive style or sensuality, that's what irresistibly marks great works.

always been fascinated by the life of da Vinci great video!

I always wait for your videos Cindy! They are a joy to watch! This came as a pleasant surprise since I was expecting a video on Jeff's recent space success. Love how you are focusing on Engineers!

Brilliant content. Already love this channel. Keep up the good work!

important learning - Keen observation and record keeping is key to the mastery of all fields of study.

he was 500y ahead of his generation n still ahead of us too

I can watch about Leonardo da Vinci all day long... Great video... He was truly way beyond his time

4:25 This is south France where I live with the flag of Occitanie. We have a lot of these locks in the "canal du midi". I didn't know this was Da Vinci!

Damn, the more I learn about him the more he souns like a Anime Protagonist.

This video is perhaps the only one that blew my mind. Other videos on YT are predictable, but this one just...shocked me more and more as we went ahead.

The thumbnail was dope!!

The editing of your videos is really good.

Leonardo DaVinci is soo inspirational :)

I feel like liking this video 20 times over Thanks cindy for this mind-blowing exposure

Damn. My respects continues to grow for this legend. Excellent video!

Da Vinci to Everyone : *I am 4 parallel universe ahead of you*

Cindy pom your voice is just so awesome and soothing. It makes the narration so much better and engaging 🧡

The character we see in the famous portrait at the Louvre is not that of Lisa del Giocondo or Mona Lisa, but that of Isabella of Aragon and Sforza, the daughter of the King of Naples Alfonso II of Aragon. Isabella married her cousin Gian Galeazzo Sforza, the heir to the Duchy of Milan, to strengthen ties between the Kingdom of Naples and the Duchy of Milan. Leonardo da Vinci was at that time in the service of Ludovico Sforza, Gian Galeazzo's uncle who was regent at the court of Milan. Isabella's young husband died prematurely at the age of 25 without having been able to exercise power, said to have been assassinated on his uncle's orders. The German historian Maike Vogt-Luerssen tells us that after her widowhood, Isabella and Leonardo formed a secret couple and had 5 children. So it is the portrait of his beloved that Leonardo da Vinci made, which explains why he took it to Amboise in France and kept it until the end of his life, as we keep a family photo nowadays. So there was an emotional bond with Isabella that did not exist with Lisa del Giocondo whose portrait was just a commission. The research I have done myself on the landscape indicates that it is based on an authentic place, which would confirm Maike Vogt-Luerssen's theory, as it probably pays tribute to Isabella of Aragon's family origins. It seems obvious to me that the identity of the character in this portrait has been confused between an order actually received, that of the silk merchant's wife, and the portrait of Leonardo's companion which is the one we see today at the Louvre. All of this is probably well known today to the so-called specialists of Leonardo da Vinci, who do not want to recognize the inconsistencies of the official version, because they have spent their whole life defending a version they know today is outdated. As Mark Twain said, "It's easier to fool people than to convince them they've been fooled".

Great video, love it...I just extremely happy that it's not another Tesla/SpaceX video.

I agree 100% he had a relentless inquisitive mind always wanting to figure out how things worked

A century or two before Leonardo da Vinci, Wang Chen, fl. 1290-1333) was a Chinese mechanical engineer, agronomist, inventor, writer, and politician of the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368). He was one of the early innovators of the wooden movable type printing technology. His illustrated agricultural treatise was also one of the most advanced of its day, covering a wide range of equipment and technologies available in the late 13th and early 14th century. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci[b] (15 April 1452 - 2 May 1519) simply improved the many drawings of Taccola. Mariano di Jacopo (1382 - c. 1453), called Taccola ("the jackdaw"), was an Italian polymath, administrator, artist and engineer of the early Renaissance. Taccola is known for his technological treatises De ingeneis and De machinis, which feature annotated drawings of a wide array of innovative machines and devices. Taccola's work was widely studied and copied by later Renaissance engineers and artists, among them Francesco di Giorgio, and Leonardo da Vinci.[2] Coincidentally, Taccola's many drawings look very similar to those compiled by Wang Chen's Nong Shu, an encyclopedia compiling centuries of Chinese inventions. See Gavin Menzies book 1434, how this Nong Shu encyclopedia may have reached Florence artist scientists at the onset of the Renaissance.

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Goddamn man, he truly was the most fascinating person to ever exist. He had it all, people say Einstein is the smartest guy ever, but Einstein could only write his brilliant thought on paper, da Vinci did the math, then did the inventing, and then did the experiments Was probably an awesome thing to witness if you were his neighbor in those days lol. There’s crazy Leo always thinking up a new invention every other day.

Good narration and well researched script.. thank you

I very much enjoy your channel. Thank you.

Who is our current DaVinci that we have yet to appreciate? Not me for certain!

What a great man. ❤❤

@Newsthink - the name da Vinci is an indicator of birthplace, not a family name; the artist is properly referred to by the given name, Leonardo. ❤️

Very very good video. Thank you🔥🙏

Thank you so much. This is very interesting.

The guy breaks the saying,Jack of all trades,Master of none,cus he is the master of all😂

This video deserves more views

He was also a good friend to Ezio,he decoded codex's for him,he also repaired the hidden blade

Thankyou for showing me 😊

I love this guy

The backwards writing is a form of dyslexia! Had a teacher that used to do it and explained it to us! His brain doesnt process that its upside down and backwards why he wrote it! He can still read it perfectly most people could too if they still wrote cursive!

very informative

Wow this video was well done. I’ve watched this 2 times already in 1 sitting 😳 now go to 3rd time.

6:10, that's the most matured baby I've ever seen

Art & Science are mind and body. Everything which has to do with the body;creating,seeing,hearing,speaking e.t.c is art and the Mind(brain) is science. Therefore, he was both.

It the pronunciations of the french words for me, so marvelously done.

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I can be whatever I want to be. If I want to be an artist: I’m an Artist! If I want to be a scientist: I’m a Scientist! If I want to arm one of the greatest assassins in history then as god as my witness I’ll do it!

Science is a part of philosophy Philosophy is just understanding of abstract concepts of reality And reality is physical manifestation of an Higher from of art So yeah an artist is technically a scientist

Leonardo da Vinci si ritrasse come genio nell’Uomo Vitruviano e come mago nell’Autoritratto conservato a Torino. Il genio ha sempre qualcosa di misterioso nella sua genesi e nelle sue manifestazioni. Quello di Leonardo da Vinci si esprimeva spesso attraverso processi inclusivi, speculari. Il moltiplicarsi all’infinito dell’immagine di un oggetto posto tra due specchi piani paralleli, ne è una tipica situazione. Effetto ottico che i geni, specie quelli artistici, in vari modi, ricreano nelle loro opere. Questo modo di operare in Leonardo si riscontra nei suoi scherzi, esperimenti, scritti e soprattutto nei quadri. Come il mago, per mezzo di forze occulte incide sulla materia, e l’alchimista la trasforma per mezzo della pietra filosofale. Così per Leonardo, le sue attività private, non sottoposte a committenza esterna, sono sostanzialmente opere di trasformazioni. Leonardo è un mago alchimista tecnologico. Paradigmatica per Leonardo è la trasformazione della luce in ombra. Trasformava i volti umani mediante caricature. S’interessa di trasformazioni di solidi con volumi identici, di trasformare un cerchio in un quadrato, trasforma due uova di struzzo nel primo mappamondo in cui è raffigurato il continente americano, con due lenti progetta il primo cannocchiale e con due ruote di legno la prima bicicletta, si occupa della trasformazione di materiale organico in nuovi composti inorganici, e di trasformare materiali inorganici in materia vivente. Progetta l’uomo artificiale tramite i suoi prototipi di robot, con le sue macchine volanti vuol rendere l’uomo un uccello e con quelle subacquee un pesce. Studia di trasformare i corsi dei fiumi e il territorio. Come un veggente, mago e profeta si vedeva nel passato e nel futuro e trasformò la sua immagine adulta, in alcune sue opere pittoriche, in un autoritratto da bambino e da anziano. Nel Cenacolo coglie la trasformazione più vertiginosa, rappresenta anche l’istituzione dell’Eucarestia, la trasformazione della materia nella divinità. Nella Battaglia di Anghiari nella furia della lotta trasforma uomini in cavalli o destrieri in uomini. Trasforma il suo famoso Autoritratto nel volto della Gioconda. Nella sua opera pittorica più libera da commissioni, la Gioconda, trasforma la morte nella vita, se come validamente ipotizzò il linguista Mario Alinei, la Gioconda è anche il ritratto di una donna morta con gli occhi aperti, come se fosse viva. Leonardo che dipinse molte Madonne con il Bambino, nella Gioconda ha raffigurato la sua ultima Madonna. Una apparizione mariana. La sua ultima magia è stata la realizzazione della Sindone di Torino? www.amazon.it/genio-Leonardo-Vinci.../dp/B09FFSC815/

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I find it funny that people call him the greatest artist of all time and he didnt even finish most of his paintings 😂 true mastermind

The early stage of the science was an art

You can be both an artist and a scientist. Both are amazing things.

lets talk about how smooth that paid promotion was incorporated

He's my favorite person in history.

🙏 Thank You So Much Master Leonardo da Vinci for marrying Science with Arts in the Renaissance! 🕯🌷🌿🌍💖🇮🇹

soo inspirational

Da Vinci was not a slow painter, he was intricate.

His art was a science & his science was an art.

I half-expected something about the "woodpecker's tongue". 😉

He litteraly stated that he learned all of these knowledges in sciences... Just for his paintings, the title is a total nonsense considering da vinci's philosophy of art

💡We finally understand DaVinci's smile ... it's the "smile" of a corpse! And maybe this explains why Italian men were so muscular in statues and paintings ... it was anatomy and art!

Brilliant video.

Amazing 😮

easily the smartest dude ever

I have a correction for that party when she said the people dressed up as planets, viewers. When she said they dressed up as planets, in Leonardo’s time, the people probably dressed up as different colored stars which represent planets.

Master of them all! We're failing in our individual subjects 🥲

Correct, Master of them all...and there are still many things to discover about Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci had a burning 🔥 desire to be a perfectionist.

A True Genius

The art also allowed for eccentricity that would be readily accepted by the society at large- in this way, his curiosity could really soar❤

There's a test tomorrow in mu school of social studies and computer and I've no idea why I'm watching this .

Da Vinci was hundreds of years ahead of his time,a genius of science

And you just figured that out 😂 The teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were named after the 2 artist Michael Angelo & raphael. And 2 scientists Leonardo devinci and donatelllo. Devinci was a philosopher as well