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‘s science is not a solid body of knowledge, rather, it can only be understood without his art, and vice-versa.

Studying Leonardo... will not only allow us to recognize his science as a solid body of knowledge. It will also show why it cannot be understood without his art, nor his art without the science.

’s painting is both an art and a science.

For Leonardo, painting is both an art and a science... Fritjof Capra, The Science of Leonardo (2007), Introduction, p. 3

was like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the others were all still asleep.

He was like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the others were all still asleep.

conceived it to be the painter's duty not only to comment on natural phenomena as restrained by law, but to merge his very mind into that of nature by interpreting its relation with art.

He conceived it to be the painter's duty not only to comment on natural phenomena as restrained by law, but to merge his very mind into that of nature by interpreting its relation with art... The whole world was full of a mystery to him, which his work reflected. The smile of consciousness, pregnant of that which is beyond, illumines the expression of Mona Lisa.

is an artist whose every painting represents an almost cosmic meaning which is only able to be represents.

There has to be a reason why the Mona Lisa has such a hold on the imagination of countless millions of people in the world, most of whom have seen only reproductions. Why is this so? I suggest that it is our response to the fact that Leonardo is 4.4 degrees initiate, almost a Master. One senses that he is no longer working in the three worlds, physical, astral and mental, in which average humanity lives. His painting represents the beauty of Reality in a spiritual or even a cosmic sense which finds expression through the activity of the 4th and 7th rays — that is, through the relationship between colour and form... In The Virgin of the Rocks, in London and Paris, there is an extraordinary complexity of composition expressing Leonardo’s abundance of 7th ray. It is the 7th-ray ability to design and organize the material which creates such a unity throughout the whole, intricate composition. But Leonardo has too much 4th ray to compose in a hard or dry manner.

is an artist whose genius as a painter came through unfolding the mystery of life.

The genius of Leonardo as a painter came through unfolding the mystery of life..."Look at the grace and sweetness of men and women in the street," he wrote. The most ordinary functions of life and nature amazed him most. He observed of the eye how in it form and colour, and the entire universe it reflected, were reduced to a single point. "Wonderful law of nature, which forced all effects to participate with their cause in the mind of man. These are the true miracles!" Elsewhere he wrote again: "Nature is full of infinite reasons which have not yet passed into experience."

is the classic Renaissance man; a painter, sculptor, architect, natural scientist, military inventor.

Leonardo da Vinci was, by any measurement, an extraordinary man. He was a painter, sculptor, architect, natural scientist, military inventor — the epitome of the Renaissance man. He had an enormous influence on his time... He was engaged by the authorities of Florence to design the fortifications and ensure the freedom of the city state. Needless to say, he had traveled a little way along the initiatory path and was the most advanced of all the painters we know — 4.4 degrees initiate. Five degrees makes you a Master, and so he was all but a Master... He could be nothing other than the highest type of artist in whose work both colour and form are perfectly realized at the highest level... It is not possible to say more than he is saying in each painting. It is as if each one communicates an almost cosmic meaning which is only able to be represented through the radiance of that painting. They take hold of our imagination and impose their extraordinary sensuous but abstract beauty on our minds.

is the hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for ourselves.

Leonardo is the hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for ourselves.

Leonardo da Vinci, n.Definitions

Leonardo da Vinci