LEGEND AND MYTH RESEARCH (INDIVIDUAL PART)
Leonardo Di Ser Piero Da Vinci（15/4/1452-2/5/1519）
Italian artist, architect, engineer and scientist Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519). (Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images)
- Italian, grow up in the grange, life in Milan 17 years
-The brilliant Italian was the epitome of the Renaissance ideal, and is considered by many to be one of the greatest geniuses of history.
- An illegitimate son and was in the name of his birth town
- Italian polymath of the Renaissance
- Convinced of science, disgusted with religion
- Universal Genius
- A vegetarian
- Singing well, playing the lyre and playing the flute
- Love painting, passionate about experimenting with different painting techniques, canvas materials, etc.
- Aries, which is a constellation of fire. And these kind of person are always energetic, optimistic, adventurous and full of creativity.
- Like astronomy. He studied the distance from earth to the sun and had a negative view of the traditional ‘center of the earth’. He also believes that the moon itself does not shine, it just reflects the radiance of the sun. His views were raised earlier than Copernicus's "Heliocentric Theory".
- Left-handed
- Used to write backwards from right to left (mirror writing)
- Anatomy of dead bodies
- Like to wear a pink jacket
- Coloring on the beard
- Don't like to deal with women
- Polyphasic sleep
- Like nature, machinery
- Have curiosity about mystery
- Convinced of science, disgusted with religion
- ‘Codice Atlantic’: "In order to earn money (by accepting additional commissions), I have to force myself to interrupt the work that adults have given me, but I hope to earn enough money in a short period of time to be able to calmly satisfy the adults. I recommend you to yourself; if you think that I have money, then you are deceived because I have to feed six people for 36 months, and I only have fifty Dakot coins."
Narcissu
A 16th century CE oil painting by Caravaggio depicting Narcissus the handsome youth of Greek mythology who fell in love with his own reflection. (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome)
Narcissus, which defined a beautiful youth in Greek mythology who pines away for love of his own reflection and is then turned into the narcissus flower.
The myth of Narcissus comes in two different versions, both Conon the Greek and Ovid, the Roman poet, wrote the story of Narcissus, enhancing it with different elements.
According to Ovid, Narcissus was born in Thespiae in Boeotia, the son of Cephissus (the personification of the Boeotian river of the same name) and the Liriope. He was distinguished for his beauty. Metamorphoses , Book III, Narcissus's mother was told by the blind seer Tiresias that he would have a long life, provided he never recognized himself. However, Narcissus cruelly refuses the advances of the Echo or (in Conon the Greek version) of the young man Ameinias drew upon him the vengeance of the gods.He fell in love with his own reflection in the waters of a spring and pined away (or killed himself); the flower that bears his name sprang up where he died.
The content of the two stories is not much different. They have traditionally been interpreted as a warning against pride and self-love. The key factor in the whole story is water. Because water has the effect of reflecting light like a mirror, Narcissus will see his own reflection. The light and shadow changes in the legendary are very interesting, we know any human body liberated by the confinement of gravity feels displaying a brighter mirrored image than the original one. So finding the right and dynamic equilibrium, to be secure and yet to dissociate.The legend also embodies the power consciousness (self-love) and human aesthetics, which is the characteristics of ancient Greek architecture.
Point:
-The myth of Narcissus comes in two different versions, the Greek and the Greco-Roman version, as both Conon the Greek and Ovid, the Roman poet, wrote the story of Narcissus, enhancing it with different elements.
- Narcissus was born in Thespiae in Boeotia, the son of Cephissus (the personification of the Boeotian river of the same name) and the Liriope.
- He fell in love with his own reflection in the waters of a spring and killed himself.
- The flower that bears his name sprang up where he died.
- Ancient Greece: Carving Art, Corinthian Column
- Daffodil: The double-sided sloping roof of the building is decorated with mountain wall before and after the building
- Water & Reflection: Mirror
- Ripple
- Light and shadow changes
- Any human body liberated by the confinement of gravity feels displaying a brighter mirrored image than the original one.
- Find the right and dynamic equilibrium, to be secure and yet to dissociate.
- The sense of rights, self-love: the primary and secondary, harmonious and elegant
- Human aesthetics, buildings are scaled according to the style of each part of the human body
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Cartwright, M. 2017, 'Narcissus', viewed in 5 Nov, 2018,
<https://www.ancient.eu/Narcissus/>
Greek Myths & Greek Mythology 2018, 'The Myth Of Narcissus', viewed in 5 Nov, 2018, <https://www.greekmyths-greekmythology.com/narcissus-myth-echo/>
Kim, Eric 2017, '30 LESSONS LEONARDO DA VINCI HAS TAUGHT ME ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY, ART, AND LIFE', viewed in 11 Oct, 2018, <https://www.diyphotography.net/30-lessons-leonardo-da-vinci-taught-photography-art-life/>
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