The Science On The Paintings

Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest artists in the Renaissance, and he successfully combined the science with painting and created the unique style of artworks. From the scientific techniques in painting, the article learns his scientific research and its application.Although Leonardo was well-known for his paintings, his scientific contribution gave support to his art. In the process of art development, the relationship between art and science passed three periods: division, combination and division, while Leonardo is significant. His scientific study mainly covered the perspective science, anatomy and imitation.In perspective science, Leonardo proficiently operated this technique and gave an insight into the spirit. After his practice, he creatively proposed new concepts and parts of his theory are coherent with the modern concepts. Apart from this, it is most important that he put efforts to the paintings, such as The Last Supper.In anatomy, his contribution is divided into two parts: one is for the art expression, the other is for the development of Medicine. He firstly took on dissection at the end of 1580s. Through the body anatomy, he further knew physical structure and took down with paintings and words. With the observation, he gained many anatomical findings even if they were contrary to the authority, such as Hippocrates, Galen, especially about the neuroscience. Leonardo innovated in the anatomical methods.As a painter, Leonardo knew more about the theory of imitation, he proposed creatively the related theory, such as "The Second Nature". Leonardo made the nature as painting standards and strove to make his paintings conform to it. While his studies about perspective and anatomy boosted the scientificity of paintings. But he didn't completely imitate the nature, he believed that painters should verify their paintings according to the nature, which was very important in the Renaissance.