Artists and Inventors

Art at its best, when practiced with its deepest intent, is pure invention

Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived

 Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452 in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci Leonardo had no surname in the modern sense, da Vinci simply meaning of Vinci: his full birth name was "Lionardo di ser Piero da Vinci", meaning "Leonardo, (son) of (Mes)ser Piero from Vinci Little is known about Leonardo's early life.

 In 1466, at the age of fourteen, Leonardo was apprenticed to the artist Verrocchio Leonardo would have been exposed to both theoretical training and a vast range of technical skills[17] including drafting, chemistry, metallurgy, metal working, plaster casting, leather working, mechanics and carpentry as well as the artistic skills of drawing, painting, sculpting and modeling. Much of the painted production of Verrocchio's workshop was done by his employees.

 Leonardo's earliest known dated work is a drawing in pen and ink of the Arno valley, drawn on August 5, 1473.

Last Supper
Leonardo's most famous painting of the 1490s is The Last Supper, painted in Milan. The painting represents the last meal shared by Jesus with his disciples before his capture and death.

Mona Lisa
Among the works created by Leonardo in the 16th century is the small portrait known as the Mona Lisa or "la Gioconda", the laughing one. In the present era it is arguably the most famous painting in the world. The shadowy quality for which the work is renowned came to be called "sfumato" or Leonardo's smoke.

Mona Lisa

Vitruvian Man 1485

The drawing is based on the correlations of ideal human proportions exemplifies the blend of art and science during the Renaissance

 Leonardo's studies in science and engineering are as impressive and innovative as his artistic work These studies were recorded in 13,000 pages of notes and drawings made and maintained daily throughout Leonardo's life and travels, as he made continual observations of the world around him.

 Leonardo's writings are mostly in mirrorimage cursive. Since Leonardo wrote with his left hand, it is probable that it was easier for him to write from right to left.

Stretching Device for a Barrel Spring 1498

Ornithopter Flying Machine

Flying Machine 1488

Machine for Storming Walls

Eight Barrelled Machine Gun

Armoured Car

Rube Goldberg
Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 December 7, 1970) was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer and inventor. He is best known for a series of popular cartoons depicting complex gadgets that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways. These devices, now known as Rube Goldberg machines

Egg Cracker

Flying machine

Rube Goldberg
YouTube - MythBusters Rube Goldberg Machine : www.HumorKick.com

Assignment
Design a Goldberg machine Machine must include 10 unique steps The steps will be labeled Rolling down a hill is not a step Be creative Machine will be colored with colored pencils