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Monday, December 05, 2005 Da Vinci ain't get no Ph.D History channel is playing a documentary about Da Vinci. I thought he was most famous for his painting, but hack, that’s something he’s got so bored that he would rather be sued by his patrons than finish his commission. To escape the boredom he left for Milan and started his phase of military design for Duke Sforza. This is one of his designs that were so beyond his time that it was not realized until 400 years later. However, Duke Sforza was more interested in using Da Vinci’s artistic talent to serve his own pleasure and build his own legacy. So poor Leonardo had to paint such uninteresting objects as the Duke’s Mistress (The lady with the ermine) or the “last supper”. Because he tried to experiment some news painting material which turned out not that successful, ‘Last Super’ had been dampened and disintegrated within the first decade of its completion. Sforza horse, the tribute to Sforza was destroyed by French while it’s still a clay mold. Fleeing from Milan, his military innovation, including the Diving suit, paddle boats, or semi-submersibles on water was not particularly interest to Duke of Venice neither. Finally appointed by Cesar Borgia as the Chief General Engineer (sounds not very artistic), Da Vinci however was repelled by his cruelty and left for Florence to explore gentle side of human nature. While Mona Lisa forever a work in progress, he switched his interest again to designed wings for human being, which by the way was the prototype of today’s airplane. And of course he did not make one it because he develop another new profession-autopsy… As a tribute to the Great Da Vinci, I left this post unfinished… Poor Leonardo, he could’ve never get his Ph.D becourse he had nothing complete for his committee. Have I mentioned that he was blogging too (kinds of, he kept 15000 pages of notes, whose contents ranges from his design and the laundry he’d done) and they were in “mirror writing”? posted by lmeimei @12:52 AM| permanent link| | |
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