Art and science are two dimensions that in Leonardo it are not possible to separate: so how he drew the ideas for his inventions from nature, so his works of art are born by the same observation of the world which was surrounding him. For Leonardo art must imitate the nature reproducing its complexity and its pulsating life through a series of technical expedients that he developed during his life. The chiaroscuro becomes for instance one of the principal fields of experimentation, in which Leonardo tests a technique in which the bodies were piercing from the shades to the lights through a series degrees which transmitted the sense of reality of the subject.
The man, according to Leonardo, is a phenomenon to be studied, and the most perfect of all others: he studies in depth people's rites and their physical strokes: every portrayed person in fact had to reveal his emotions trough the expressions and the gestures. His personalities are never completely static, but move according to pyramidal strength lines, rushes and continuos torsion, since imaging a body or an expression in movement and ascent is like to reveal his internal life. Leonardo left us many preparatory drawings also for his artistic works; this proves that every masterpiece was studied with love even in the most little details.

Leonardo's Last Supper

The monument to Francesco Sforza

Hall of Asse