Leonardo da Vinci (3/5): Origins of "The Last Supper" and architectural works

Описание: At the age of 45, Leonardo has reached his artistic maturity, but he still has a dream: to create a great pictorial work.

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Due to the outbreak of a plague in Milan, Leonardo draws sketches of an organic city, inspired by blood circulation and organized in channels and streets at different levels so as to ensure the welfare of its inhabitants and the fluidity of the network of roads. He goes to Venice, as a military engineer to design weapons and means of defense against the Turkish invasion. He invents and tests all these weapons but then removes them because he thinks that since they were secret, the enemy had no defense against them. At the request of Cesare Borgia, Leonardo da Vinci left Venice. Borgia appointed him architect and military engineer. Leonardo da Vinci re-invented weapons, but did not make them because he conceived them "as a means of defence against tyranny, not as a means of support".

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** About the series **
Who was Leonardo da Vinci? The genius behind paintings like "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper"? The self-taught painter, architect, engineer, sculptor, geographer and inventor who lived his life in solitude? This documentary series relates to the purpose of narrating and illustrating the personal life of Leonardo da Vinci through the places where he lived and created all his original work, as well as reading and analyzing his writings, drawings and paintings.

Original title: Léonard de Vinci - 500 ans | Episode 3
A film by Vittorio di Girolamo

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