Would you believe, that 500 years ago
A man had already designed Helicopter, Tank, and Parachute
And many more of such advanced technology.
But no one took his designs seriously.
A man who was a painter, scientist, mathematician, engineer and physicist.
A man who discovered such secrets of the human body, that science cannot comprehend even today.
A man who was ahead of his time,
But people never appreciated his talents
This man was the famed painter, scientist, and engineer - Leonardo Da Vinci.
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The name of this video is, The Secrets of Leonardo Da Vinci Revealed.
Meaning, decoding the Da Vinci Code.
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Friends, Only a few people in the history of mankind,
Are so talented that they are remembered even after centuries.
Leonardo was a person, whose talents knew no bounds
and whose life was full of mystery.
Firstly, his surname was not Da Vinci.
Leonardo was born in a rich Italian house
but since he was an illegitimate child,
He did not get his father's family name.
Da Vinci means One who belongs to Vinci.
Vinci is a small town in Italy.
Leonardo spent his childhood here.
It's astounding that he was not sent to school,
Yet his knowledge of science and maths was extraordinary
Leonardo's paintings are popular worldwide,
And the most famed is his painting Mona Lisa.
But Leonardo's biggest passion was to fly in the sky.
He used to remember a memory from his childhood.
When he was in the cradle, a bird came through the window and sat on his cradle
The bird then opened Leonardo's mouth with its tail
And Leonardo started playing with its wings.
Leonardo believed this to be an omen from nature.
Maybe that's why he spent years of his life
Researching, how do the birds fly?
He even designed a Helicopter,
A Plane,
and a Parachute as well.
But his designs were ahead of his time
And they were impossible to build back then
His dream to fly was never realized,
But 500 years later, in the year 2000 AD,
Adrian Nicholas built the parachute designed by him
And jumped from a plane with that parachute
The 500 years old parachute, designed like a pyramid.
Flew and landed as well.
From this, you can appreciate Leonardo's knowledge and talent.
Leonardo's mother was a poor orphan
And his father belonged to a wealthy family.
That's why when Leonardo was born, his father's family accepted him
But his mother was paid and married somewhere else
Since his dad was rich, Leonardo's childhood was comfortable.
From here began Leonardo's artistic journey.
One day a peasant came to meet Leonardo's father, Sir Piero, with a wooden shield.
He had made the shield himself
And he wanted Sir Piero to get it painted whenever he went to Florence
The peasant worked really hard for Sir Piero, so he didn't refuse him
But the next day, Sir Piero gave that shield to young Leonardo to Paint
Leonardo started thinking about what could he paint on the shield?
Then he thought that it would be best if he drew something so scary
That the enemy would get terrified and runs away.
That way there won't be any reason to fight.
That's when Leonardo went to his room
where he dissected and experimented with snakes, scorpions and other small animals.
From the ancient myths,
He depicted the decapitated head of Medusa.
But instead of her hair, he drew snakes and she was breathing fire through her mouth.
Leonardo spent a lot of time painting the shield.
Finally when he showed the painting to his father,
then on seeing the shield unaware, his father got terrified.
Leonardo was happy that his painting was getting the reaction he expected.
His father was really proud of his son's talents
He handed the peasant another shield, without telling him that it was a replacement.
And he sold Leonardo's shield to some merchants
at a good price.
Some believe that the shield was a piece of great art in itself.
And after some time, the Duke of Milan purchase it for a handsome price.
Today, no one knows the whereabouts of the shield
But it was Leonardo's first painting
After this, his father sent him to be a student of a great artist
In his time, people in Europe did not pay much heed to science and maths.
Their major attention was on
Religion, Arts, Farming, and Money.
But Leonardo looked at everything with a Scientific view
And tried to understand its true nature.
Leonardo carried a Diary with him everywhere
And as soon as he saw anything exciting
He would dive into investigating and writing about it.
Another fun fact is that Leonardo wrote in mirror style
And he was an expert in writing words in this style.
If you want to read his diary,
Then you would have to read it in front of a mirror.
Some people say, that he wrote this way so that no one could steal his ideas.
But some believe that he wrote this way
Because he was left-handed and it was easier for him to write this way.
Only Leonardo could tell why he chose to write this way.
There is something else about Leonardo, that you might not know.
Some people believe that he was a homosexual.
Even though no one can say it with surety
But some incidents in his life do point towards it.
Once, because of this, he even landed in Prison.
The story goes like this,
a local boy of about 16-17 was modeling for Leonardo's painting.
Some policemen came to Leonardo's studio suddenly,
And caught Leonardo painting the boy nude.
No one knows what was really happening there,
But the laws at that time were very strict regarding homosexuality.
And that's why they locked up Leonardo in Prison.
A lot worse could have happened.
He could have even be sent to the Gallows.
But due to lack of evidence, he was released in a few months.
The time spent in prison had a great impact on Leonardo.
He became an animal lover,
And whenever he would find an animal or bird caged,
he would release them in the wild.
He even turned Vegetarian because of this.
The prison had struck fear in his mind,
which led him to invent the machine to pick locks
and another machine to bend the rods of the prison cell
There is one more truth about Leonardo, that you definitely haven't heard of.
The thing is, that he enjoyed creating funny and indecent paintings.
So much, that he even created an indecent version of Mona Lisa,
Which is today better known as Mona Vanna.
He made the painting with charcoal,
And it was a part of his private collection.
You can search it on Google, and I am sure you will be fascinated.
In this, he made his pupil Andrea Salai pose like Mona Lisa,
And then made his indecent painting.
There is one more of his painting, that's even more indecent.
And even that painting is of his pupil Salai
The name of this painting is Angelo Incarnato.
This painting won't remind you of an experienced and renowned artist,
Instead, it will remind you of a reckless youngster.
This makes some people believe that Leonardo was in love with his pupil Salai.
And that's why they believe him to be gay.
In his lifetime, Leonardo made some friends as well as some enemies.
And his enemy was no less than him.
His enemy was an equally famous and talented artist,
Michelangelo.
You must have heard something somewhere about Michelangelo.
The famous paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican are his creation.
There was always a competition between the two, regarding who was the better artist.
Both hated each other.
Leonardo had dissed about Michelangelo's work in his diary.
Leonardo's teacher was Adrea del Verrochio,
Who was quite a famous artist of that time.
When he made Leonardo his pupil,
He gave him training in all art forms.
He taught him different forms of sketching, painting, sculpting and more.
Leonardo was quite fast,
And he soon mastered all forms of art.
Verrocchio then started giving him small assignments,
which Leonardo would work on with complete dedication.
Then one day, Verrocchio asked Leonardo to paint a small boy in one of his paintings.
This famous painting was - The Baptism of Christ.
Verrocchio was shocked by the work of Leonardo
He had never seen such precise and detailed artistic work before
He thought that even he himself could have created such a masterpiece.
The pupil had surpassed the master.
So Verrocchio decided to never paint again after that.
Today, wherever we go, we use maps on our phones quite often.
Even you must have searched your destination at least once on Google Maps.
With help of satellites its quite simple to generate these maps today
But 500 years ago, when even airplanes did not exist,
Leonardo created one such unique map for his city
Actually, all the maps in those times were made with elevation.
If you were standing on a Mountain top and seeing the city, that was what the map would look like.
But with such maps, you won't get an idea of where you can build roads or buildings.
This caused challenges for city administration.
And if the city is ever under attack,
then it was difficulty to understand the weaknesses in the city's defense.
That's why the city's administrator - Cesare Borgia,
gave Leonardo the responsibility of making a new city map.
Leonardo took detailed measurements of every nook and corner
And with his prowess in geometry made this map.
This Map is called the Map of Imola.
At that time the map was no less than a miracle.
The map in itself was a piece of art.
Leonardo's paintings are popular for his artistic talent,
But they are equally famous due the secret messages he hid in them.
Leonardo hid some secret messages in almost all of his paintings.
Even 500 years after his death,
His paintings talk to us.
But the secrets they hide, still don't let the experts sleep.
Including the famous Mona Lisa.
The smile of Mona Lisa has always attracted curiosity.
But some experts used advance tech, to study Mona Lisa in detail.
And they found letters "LV" inscribed in one of her eyes.
LV could mean Leonardo da Vinci.
Some other symbol was found in her other eye as well.
But no one knows its meaning.
Some believe that Mona Lisa is actually Leonardo himself.
And that it is his self-portrait.
But no one can tell you this with surety.
There is one more of his paintings that's very famous.
And mysterious as well
This painting is "The Last Supper"
The painting depicts Jesus Christ's last meal with his disciples.
The painting itself is in bad condition. But,
Every year lakhs of people come to watch this painting.
If you want to watch this painting as well, then you might need to book in advance.
Some people believe that Leonardo has hidden a lot of secret messages about Jesus in this Painting
The first secret being,
Almost all artists of that time used to depict Jesus as a god,
With a Halo (ring) behind his head.
But Leonardo didn't do that.
He portrayed Jesus like a common man.
No one knows why Leonardo did that.
There are many more mysteries about this painting.
And every expert has his own opinions.
But one expert found out that Leonardo had hidden music notes inside the painting.
Assuming the items kept on the table to be 
 music notes,
He decoded the music hidden inside the painting
Giovanni Maria Pala has put up this music on his youtube channel.
Do listen to this track
And watch Leonardo's masterpiece while listening.
I guarantee that Leonardo will pull you inside his mysterious world.
Friends, Leonardo was definitely a great person.
There are a lot more interesting things about him.
Even I am a big fan of Leonardo
And that's why I like talking about him.
Leonardo was a great artist, scientist and nature lover.
That's all for today though.
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