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Volume 3: A blow of destiny, the king appears Chapter 90: Da Vinci

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    One of the Demon Guardians - Darcy

    Leonardo Darcy (1452-1519), also translated as Leonardo da Vinci, was a polymath during the Italian Renaissance: in addition to being a painter, he was also a sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, and engineer  , inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer.

    His talent was perhaps higher than that of other figures of the same period, which made him a representative figure of humanism during the Renaissance, a typical artist of the Renaissance, and one of the most famous painters in history.  Michelangelo and Raphael are known as the three great masters of the Renaissance.  Asteroid 3000 was named Leonardo.

    Darcy is often described as a typical polymath, a man of unquenchable curiosity and an extremely active creative imagination.

    He is widely regarded as one of the greatest painters of all time, and perhaps the one who possessed the most diverse types of talent of any person.

    According to art historians Helen and Gardner, his interests reached an unprecedented scope and depth, and his thoughts and personality seemed to be beyond ordinary people, but he was mysterious and alienated. Rosci proposed that although there are already  Many speculations have been made about Darcy, but his worldview was essentially logical rather than mystical, and the empiricist approach he used was unusual for that period.

    Darcy was and still is primarily known as a painter, and is known for the realistic and influential nature of his paintings.

    Of his works, the Mona Lisa is the most famous and most imitated portrait.

    The Last Supper is considered the most copied religious painting of all time, rivaled only by Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam.

    The painting "Vitruvian Man" is also considered a symbol of civilization and has been reproduced on a variety of items such as euros, textbooks and T-shirts.

    15 of his paintings have survived.  The reason for this small number is due to his continued, frequently disastrous experiments with new technologies and his consistent procrastination in painting.

    In any case, his works, together with his notebooks containing drawings, scientific illustrations and his thoughts on the quality of drawing, made him one of his contemporaries, equaled only by Michelangelo, and influential to subsequent artists.  Artist of great influence.

    Darcy is revered for his technical ingenuity.  He had a wide range of ideas that exceeded those of the time. Among his famous conceptual inventions are: helicopters, machine guns, robots, tanks, solar focusing applications, calculators, double-layer shells. He also outlined the basic theoretical framework of plate tectonics.

    But only a handful of Darcy's paintings have survived, plus manuscripts including paintings, scientific diagrams, and notes scattered in various collections.

    Most of Darcy¡¯s inventions were advanced.  At the time, only a few of the designs were built at the time, and most were unfeasible at the time.

    But some of Darcy¡¯s little inventions, such as an automatic bobbin winding machine, a machine for testing the tension of metal wires.  These inventions heralded for the first time a world of manufacturing.

    He made important explorations in anatomy, civil engineering, optics and fluid mechanics, but because he did not make his discoveries public, these discoveries did not have a direct impact on subsequent scientific progress.

    Darcy was born in a small mountain town in western Tuscany, near the valley where the Arno River flows. At that time, this place was the territory of the Republic of Florence under the rule of the Medici family.

    Darcy¡¯s father, Serpiero Darcy, was a notary in Florence and was therefore very wealthy.  His mother, Caterina, was a peasant woman.  Darcy is their illegitimate child.

    Darcy does not have a real last name.  His full name means: Leonardo, son of Messer Piero of West Town.  The r in his name only shows that his father was a gentleman.

    Darcy did not formally study Latin, geometry or mathematics.  Later, Darcy recorded two minor accidents as a child.

    Once, a kite hovered over his cradle, and its tail feathers brushed his face.

    One more time.  While exploring in the mountains, he discovered a cave. Although he was afraid that a monster might be hidden inside, he finally went in to explore it out of curiosity.

    Darcy¡¯s childhood has become a historical mystery.  The 16th-century Renaissance biographer Vasa wrote of a local farmer who made a shield.  Darcy's father Piero was asked to paint on the shield.

    Son Darcy drew a monster with tongues of fire on it.  This painting is so lifelike and terrifying.  Piero sold it to an art agent in Florence, who in turn sold the painting to the Duke of Milan.

      Then Piero used the money he earned from selling the painting to buy the farmer a new shield, with a red heart pierced by an arrow painted on it.

    The earliest known dated work by Darcy is a 1473 painting made with Arno Valley pen and ink.

    Between 1476 and 1478, Darcy accepted two painting commissions, and it is assumed that he had a studio of his own at that time.

    Around 1482-1498, Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, hired Darcy and allowed him and his apprentices to open a studio.

    This location is where the Duke of Milan attempted to save Milan from being ruled by Charles VIII of France in 1495. He cast 70 tons of bronze into weapons, and these materials were originally intended by Darcy to make a horse sculpture - Gran Camelot.

    In 1498, when France returned to the rule of Louis XII, Milan surrendered without a fight, and the Sforza family was overthrown.  Darcy remained in Milan for some time until one morning he discovered that a life-size clay model of Grancamelo was being used as target practice by French archers.

    With his close friend and assistant Salai and Luca Pacioli, the first friend to describe double-entry bookkeeping, Darcy left Milan for Mantua and arrived in Venice two months later.

    In Venice, Darcy was hired as a military engineer.  Then returned to Florence in 1500.

    In Florence, Darcy entered the department of Caesar Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, as a military architect and engineer, and traveled throughout Italy with Caesar Borgia.

    In 1506, Darcy returned to Milan, where Maximilian Fowl was restored after the Swiss mercenaries were expelled from France.

    Between 1513 and 1516, Darcy lived in Rome. At that time, famous painters like Raphael and Michelangelo were active in Rome, but Darcy did not have frequent contact with these artists.

    ¡°Yet he was the key figure in the relocation of Michelangelo¡¯s masterpiece David to Florence, possibly against the artist¡¯s wishes.

    In the last three years of his life, Darcy was invited by Francis I to move to Amboise, France.  Fran?ois I gave Darcy the Chateau de Clos Luce as a residence, and Darcy designed a double spiral staircase for the Chateau de Chambord.

    Darcy died of illness in 1519 and was buried in the Saint-Hubert chapel of Amboise Castle.

    Artistic Renaissance - There are no mutually exclusive extremes between science and art.

    Darcy¡¯s studies in the fields of science and engineering are as memorable and outstanding as his works of art.

    The approximately 13,000 pages of notes and drawings in the manuscript are a record of mixed art and science.  These records were created by observing the surroundings during Darcy's trip to Europe.

    Being left-handed, he wrote in a mirror image throughout his life.  For left-handed writers, it is easier to pull the quill from right to left than to push it from left to right without blurring the newly written words.  Therefore, his diary is full of mirror words.
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