TTC Video - Leonardo da Vinci and the Italian High Renaissance

In the grand history of the Western world, there is no single individual whose name is more synonymous with inventiveness, curiosity, and creative genius than Leonardo da Vinci. His life and works would not just remake the Renaissance in Italy—they would go on to inspire developments and innovations in our own world.

Leonardo has always exerted an extraordinary fascination. For unlike his artistic peers, such as Michelangelo and Raphael, who were known solely for their artistic accomplishments, Leonardo was the very epitome of the Renaissance man, whose skills and influences touched on nearly every aspect of human endeavor.

• As an artist, he helped develop artistic techniques of perspective, classical composition, and naturalism in works such as The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa.
• As an engineer, he devised marvelous inventions that aimed to transform the way people thought about warfare, transportation, and even plumbing.
• As a scientist, he exposed to everyday eyes the previously mysterious workings of human anatomy, the biology of various flora and fauna, and the properties of optics.
• As a thinker and writer, he advanced ideas and theories about art, mathematics, and science that would guide generations of other great minds.
• As a mentor, he inspired and prodded the techniques and careers of artists like Bramante, Michelangelo, and Raphael, who would go on to become masters of High Renaissance art and architecture as well.

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Course Lecture Titles

1. Introducing Leonardo da Vinci
2. Who Was Leonardo? Facts and Fictions
3. Leonardo’s Artistic Origins
4. From Apprentice to Partner
5. Annunciation—Leonardo’s First Commission
6. A New Kind of Portrait—Ginevra de’ Benci
7. Leonardo’s Early Madonnas
8. Scandal, Reprieve, and the Penitent St. Jerome
9. Inventing Early Modern Classical
10. Arrival in Milan—Madonna of the Rocks
11. Leonardo at Court—Portrait of a Musician
12. Leonardo and the Ladies
13. Threats to the Italian Renaissance—The 1490s
14. Leonardo the Inventor and Engineer
15. Vitruvian Man, Perfection, and Architecture
16. Leonardo the Military Scientist
17. Leonardo and Flight
18. Drawing Human Figures and Caricatures
19. Colossus—The Sculpture for Ludovico Sforza
20. The Making of The Last Supper
21. The Meaning of The Last Supper
22. Mantua, Isabella d’Este, and Venice
23. Return to Florence—Sfumato and an Exhibition
24. Leonardo, Cesare Borgia, and Machiavelli
25. Michelangelo and Leonardo
26. Mona Lisa—La Gioconda
27. Raphael and Leonardo
28. Leonardo in Milan and Pope Julius II in Rome
29. The Anatomical Drawings—His Greatest Works?
30. In Praise of Painting—Leonardo’s Manifesto
31. Leonardo and the Medici in Rome
32. High Renaissance Art from Rome to Venice
33. Last Years—Leonardo in France
34. Renaissance Man and Man of the Renaissance
35. The End of an Era
36. The Legacies of Leonardo da Vinci







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