Leonardo da Vinci’s Sculpture

When you think of Leonardo da Vinci, certain images automatically come to mind, such as The Mona Lisa, The Vitruvian Man, and The Last Supper, just to name a few. These are some of da Vinci's famous art pieces. However, not only did da Vinci have a talent for art, but he also had a flare for sculpture. Leonardo da Vinci’s sculptures may not be as easily identifiable as his artwork, but you may be surprised to find that you are actually familiar with the sculptures described in this video.

To comprehend Leonardo da Vinci's work and influence on Italian visual arts requires an understanding of his relationship with sculpture. In this video, Marietta Cambareri will go through some aspects that help us understand more about Leonardo's sculptures, such as Donatello's influence on Leonardo's works, Leonardo's relationship with his teacher and his close colleague Rustici, and the stories behind Leonardo's sculptures.

Chapters:
04:29 The Relative Merits of Painting vs. Sculpture
11:45 Learning to look: Leonardo and Florentine Sculpture

27:50 Learning to look and to Make Leonardo and Verrocchio

40:13 Thinking Like a Sculptor

46:49 Leonardo's Sculptures

55:02 Leonardo and Glovanni Francesco Rustic

Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452–1519) was a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer (military, civil, and aeronautical), inventor, anatomist, cartographer, theoretician, and musician. His instinctive curiosity led him to numerous discoveries and achievements, some of which we are still only beginning to comprehend from the thousands of pages of his surviving handwritten notes and drawings.