he was good in virtually everything he
took took up and he’s known as a
universal genius of course along with
Michelangelo he’s in a stratosphere by
himself these are two painters two
artists angela was mainly a sculptor but
two artists who define art you can argue
about the third greatest artist but not
about the first because they’re tight
you can take them in either order anyway
as one of the two greatest artists you
would think he would be prolific and yet
he’s he painted only about a dozen
paintings among the Dozen are the two
most famous and paintings in the history
of art no one will argue that the Mona
Lisa and the Last Supper are these two
paintings the most famous you can
usually explain ordinary genius you can
say smart parents and smart children
they can be very supportive parents the
children can be that they’re met has to
be many books in the house that’s key
not just one book the Bible I’ll have
lots of books in the house they don’t
have to be all red but they have to be
there the supportive parents can send
their children to into good educational
institutions they might go to Caltech or
Princeton and mathematics or physics and
if they’re really lucky they’ll win a
Nobel Prize that’s a tangible reward but
these you can understand
the Beethoven the Leonardo the
Michelangelo is no explanation for them
these are maybe it’s the way their
brains are wired maybe there’s a
physiological anomaly but there’s no
explanation for these handful of
transformative geniuses
when he was doing anatomical studies for
example he said you have to sketch from
eight different directions for example
the same thing to pre describe
everything so precisely he would apply
the scientific method before the
Scientific Revolution he would observe
first without any any preconceived ideas
when you’re that intelligence it’s
almost better if you don’t have an
education because you’ll be saddled with
the ideas of Aristotle and frankly
fairly poor scientists from the ancient
times there were much better scientist
than our Stalin ancient times Archimedes
Eratosthenes our starkest were much
better but the church accepted what
Aristotle said and that put science
behind Leonardo is really a bundle of
contradictions he was an illegitimate
child born in 1452 on april of 15th
which is tax day here although we know
him for being so prolific producing so
much he thought that he produced so
little that in his deathbed he turned to
an assistant and he asked did anything
get done among the contradictions he was
a pacifist in his life and yet he worked
for almost 20 years in Milan for the
Sforza family as a military engineer
devising weapons this is very much like
Einstein whose famous letter started the
manhattan project that started that of
course led to the atom bomb and yet he
was a pacifist he was left-handed at a
time when the word sinister was still
applied to describe the left-hander
leonardo was a vegetarian he would buy
birds in the market place just to
release them
Leonardo and Michelangelo around 1503
1504 were commissioned to do a pair of
murals on the same very large wall in
the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence they
both started they both made their
drawings or cartoons cartoons a
full-sized drawing however the
Commission felt true Leonardo had
started a little bit earlier and he
started applying a paint on the work on
the wall but it started running it was
an experimental technique that he had he
was using and he tried to draw it with
heat and it red and it was a disaster
nonetheless the underdrawing should be
on this wall 50 years later Mazzarri the
great art historian was a commissioned
to build a to cover this up covering up
the great beginnings of Leonardo
Michelangelo art and since bazaari was
such a great fan of Leonardo it’s
thought that he built a wall in front
and save Leonardo’s on work for future
generation and what sarracenia is doing
is as wonderful he’s applying high
technology in a spirit of Leonardo
Leonardo would have liked this he’s
using neutron activation which is a way
of
of essentially imaging through walls and
you can find something the size of a pin
in a haystack the size of the pyramids
using neutron activation what you do is
you activate the material with neutrons
then you look at the gamma ray spectrum
or their radiation and you see the
signature of the much of the material
and it’s known what paints Leonardo had
been using in his time so that we would
actually be able to see through this
wall to know if there is a painting
behind it so sarracenia is to me a very
noble scientists
and art researcher
took took up and he’s known as a
universal genius of course along with
Michelangelo he’s in a stratosphere by
himself these are two painters two
artists angela was mainly a sculptor but
two artists who define art you can argue
about the third greatest artist but not
about the first because they’re tight
you can take them in either order anyway
as one of the two greatest artists you
would think he would be prolific and yet
he’s he painted only about a dozen
paintings among the Dozen are the two
most famous and paintings in the history
of art no one will argue that the Mona
Lisa and the Last Supper are these two
paintings the most famous you can
usually explain ordinary genius you can
say smart parents and smart children
they can be very supportive parents the
children can be that they’re met has to
be many books in the house that’s key
not just one book the Bible I’ll have
lots of books in the house they don’t
have to be all red but they have to be
there the supportive parents can send
their children to into good educational
institutions they might go to Caltech or
Princeton and mathematics or physics and
if they’re really lucky they’ll win a
Nobel Prize that’s a tangible reward but
these you can understand
the Beethoven the Leonardo the
Michelangelo is no explanation for them
these are maybe it’s the way their
brains are wired maybe there’s a
physiological anomaly but there’s no
explanation for these handful of
transformative geniuses
when he was doing anatomical studies for
example he said you have to sketch from
eight different directions for example
the same thing to pre describe
everything so precisely he would apply
the scientific method before the
Scientific Revolution he would observe
first without any any preconceived ideas
when you’re that intelligence it’s
almost better if you don’t have an
education because you’ll be saddled with
the ideas of Aristotle and frankly
fairly poor scientists from the ancient
times there were much better scientist
than our Stalin ancient times Archimedes
Eratosthenes our starkest were much
better but the church accepted what
Aristotle said and that put science
behind Leonardo is really a bundle of
contradictions he was an illegitimate
child born in 1452 on april of 15th
which is tax day here although we know
him for being so prolific producing so
much he thought that he produced so
little that in his deathbed he turned to
an assistant and he asked did anything
get done among the contradictions he was
a pacifist in his life and yet he worked
for almost 20 years in Milan for the
Sforza family as a military engineer
devising weapons this is very much like
Einstein whose famous letter started the
manhattan project that started that of
course led to the atom bomb and yet he
was a pacifist he was left-handed at a
time when the word sinister was still
applied to describe the left-hander
leonardo was a vegetarian he would buy
birds in the market place just to
release them
Leonardo and Michelangelo around 1503
1504 were commissioned to do a pair of
murals on the same very large wall in
the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence they
both started they both made their
drawings or cartoons cartoons a
full-sized drawing however the
Commission felt true Leonardo had
started a little bit earlier and he
started applying a paint on the work on
the wall but it started running it was
an experimental technique that he had he
was using and he tried to draw it with
heat and it red and it was a disaster
nonetheless the underdrawing should be
on this wall 50 years later Mazzarri the
great art historian was a commissioned
to build a to cover this up covering up
the great beginnings of Leonardo
Michelangelo art and since bazaari was
such a great fan of Leonardo it’s
thought that he built a wall in front
and save Leonardo’s on work for future
generation and what sarracenia is doing
is as wonderful he’s applying high
technology in a spirit of Leonardo
Leonardo would have liked this he’s
using neutron activation which is a way
of
of essentially imaging through walls and
you can find something the size of a pin
in a haystack the size of the pyramids
using neutron activation what you do is
you activate the material with neutrons
then you look at the gamma ray spectrum
or their radiation and you see the
signature of the much of the material
and it’s known what paints Leonardo had
been using in his time so that we would
actually be able to see through this
wall to know if there is a painting
behind it so sarracenia is to me a very
noble scientists
and art researcher
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