25 Fascinating Leonardo da Vinci Facts You Won't Find in 'The Da Vinci Code'
Leonardo da Vinci was one of the great movers and shakers of his time. These days, though, most people only remember him for a few...
Published 11 months ago in Wow
Leonardo da Vinci was one of the great movers and shakers of his time. These days, though, most people only remember him for a few paintings.
The REAL life and times of Leonardo da Vinci is likely to blow your mind. Keep reading to learn all about it!
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Leonardo Da Vinci's "The Last Supper" as it exists today is largely a modern reconstruction. The painting was already severely deteriorated within sixty years of being painted, and has since suffered flooding, bombing, French revolutionaries, a scratchy curtain and use as a prison cell.-u/Nihil-Novi
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Leonardo da Vinci wrote “all the branches of a tree at every stage of its height when put together are equal in thickness to the trunk”. In 2011 Christophe Eloy investigated and found that trees that followed Leonardo's rule would be the best at resisting wind-induced fracture.-u/jamescookenotthatone
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Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" was sold at auction in 1958 for £45, and again in 2005 for under $10,000. In 2011, it was authenticated as a Leonardo original. It was then sold in 2013 for $75 million, sold again for $127.5 million, and later sold at auction in 2017 for $450.3 million.-u/malalatargaryen
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Adoration Of The Magi is an unfinished work by Leonardo da Vinci commissioned by a Florentine monastery in 1480. Consistent with his proneness to abandon projects, he eventually grew bored with it, simply left, and moved to Milan. The monastery paid Filippino Lippi to complete it instead.-u/SojourningCPA
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