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After watching the video Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance, I am able to understand the impact the Renaissance had on da Vinci and how da Vinci have an influence on the Renaissance. Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452, on the 15^th of April, which was in the midst of the Renaissance. From a very early age he began to show desires of comprehension and studies nature, human movement, and the motion of the soul. He was the first to make a landscape the focal point of a painting. Da Vinci goes from the fine arts to mechanical arts, studying machines in order to make them better. He illustrated the machines and its parts then builds them. Da Vinci was able to be a complete artist, learning drawing, painting, sculpture, and mastering mechanics. Music also played an important role within da Vinci’s life. I found this movie insightful and allowed me to get into the mind of a Renaissance artist. Leonardo da Vinci was an incredible man with many talents which he expressed through every medium. I found this movie gave me the inspirations and muses that the Renaissance artists used during this time. Hearing personal accounts straight from the writings of da Vinci allowed me to understand what type of person he was and how he was able to conceive such a large collection of writings, paintings, and blue prints. I picked this video to watch because I have always been interested in da Vinci and his life.

In the video The Drawings of Michelangelo, went through the drawings that Michelangelo did in order to start his master pieces. These drawings were the beginning stages of his master pieces, however they reveal more than the finished pieces of art. Michelangelo destroyed many of his drawings because he was a perfectionist and he did not want anyone to see his hesitations and mistakes. Through his drawings I am able to see the influences and similarities Michelangelo had with other artists of his time. The drawings open up the mind of Michelangelo. They show how he thought, prepared his works, and how he liked to draw. This video related to the chapters because it discussed the ideal body, the preparation and execution of a piece of art, and how the artist was influenced by many people and cultures when training and producing art. I picked this video because like da Vinci I am very interested in Michelangelo’s work because he was such a talented man. He was able to draw, paint, and sculpt a human body so life like as well as taking careful consideration about where the sculpture will be placed and the light that will hit the piece.