LEONARDO Da VINCI: The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything

LEONARDO Da VINCI: The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/leonardo-da-vinci/

Parts 1-6 (film 1)

1. What is Leonardo da Vinci best known to the world for?

2. When was Leonardo da Vinci born? What fact connected with his birth was to shape his future life?

3. Why is Leonardo called “the first modern mind in history”?

4. What was his idiosyncratic peculiarity in which Leonardo da Vinci worked?

5. What was Leonardo obsessed with as a child?

6. How do we come to know about what was on his mind? What is the source of the present-day evidence?

7. What is known as ornithopters? What did Leonardo’s drawings depict which has been considered his precocious ideas of modern flying machines?

8. What is so unbelievably surprising about Leonardo’s idea of using a parachute? When was the first parachute used successfully?

9. When did Leonardo’s childhood end? What background breakthrough events did he witness that shaped him as a pioneering scientist?

10. What was Leonardo’s attitude to rage and violence which were typical of his times? What inventions is his aggression associated with?

11. What factors predetermined Leonardo’s becoming an artist and not choosing any other profession to embark on?

12. What do we come to know about Leonardo’s apprenticeship? When did he get his big chance? What was so revolutionary in the method that he applied? What is the effect achieved by the application?

13. What scandal was Leonardo involved in? How did the incident change him?

14. What drew Leonardo da Vinci to Milan? What made Ludovico interested in Leonardo? What was Leonardo commissioned to do in the castle of the Dutch and the Dutchess?

15. Which areas were in the scope of Leonardo’s scientific observation why he was working for Ludovico? Enumerate the projects he was working at? What did he offer Ludovico to satisfy the latter’s vanity?

16. Do you share the opinion expressed in the documentary that Leonardo, being a genius, might have intentionally made the designs of his forerunner of a modern tank wrong?

17. In what way did Leonardo decide to make his “Last Supper” different from other works depicting the last supper of Christ with his disciples? How did he work at the masterpiece? What solutions did he come up with in order to compensate for his slow approach?

18. What happened to the “Last Supper” that it was almost lost and forgotten?

LEONARDO Da VINCI: The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/leonardo-da-vinci/

Parts 7 – 12

1. What medical accomplishments enumerated in the preview to this part of the documentary is Leonardo da Vinci known for?

2. What makes the genius of Leonardo da Vinci so outstanding in comparison to such eminent people as Newton and Einstein?

3. Why was Leonardo’s triumph as a painter on finishing the “Last Supper” followed by dismal times? Where did he move?

4. What kind of weapon and strategy for attacks did Leonardo offer the Venetian doge and the council?

What materials were used to reproduce Leonardo’s design?

5. Why was Leonardo’s design of an underwater suit tested? Did he receive any remuneration for his idea?

6. Apart from his inventions what was Leonardo preoccupied with?

7. Why did Leonardo get in touch with Cesare Borgia? What was the latter known for? What did Cesare Borgia do for Leonardo? What, allegedly, persuaded Leonardo to leave Borgia’s service?

8. Why was his sojourn in France so much important? What kinds of obsessions was he liable to in that period?

9. What do we learn about the feasibility of the glider Leonardo worked out?

10. How did Leonardo’s obsession with investigation lead him to breaking the rules? What was at stake? What idea did Leonardo come up with which combined his interest in human anatomy and in mechanics? What did Leonardo’s designs exert an impact on which is an advanced technology even nowadays?

11. Why was Pope Leo the 10^th rather critical of Leonardo?

12. What was Leonardo searching for in his medical study? In what context does the notion of cholesterol come up in the programme? Why did it happen so that all Leonardo’s findings in anatomy did not prove useful?

13. What was the greatest legacy that Leonardo da Vinci had already created by the time to leave to the world?

Date: 2015-12-11; view: 1338