Decoding da Vinci | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS

What a fascinating video! Thank you!

Mona Lisa is the best in the world and I like it so much and I have a good idea about how it is good.

No reasonable person would conclude that Leonardo's machines and paintings happened without Leonardo's input, direction and creative design.

Leonardo is held in awe for his creations, rightly so, however the Creator of all things is disdained by many educated persons. Many of Leonardo's works are "copies" of what he saw in the world around him.

This documentary it’s full of lies. Leonardo didn’t decide to use linseed oil. The use of oil paints was attributed to Jan Van Eyck in the 15th C. The way that Leonardo painted it’s on the Vasari book On technique, explains how he used binding oils and colors. Sfumato it’s a thing layer of blue wash to create atmosphere, it’s used in landscape. Between one point on the landscape and the foreground there’s air , this is sfumato to make you believe the distance is greater of the object. People just make things up without knowing how to paint. Those who are born with this ability of drawing and painting are subject of collective jealousy pretending to decipher the gift that they don’t have.

Mona Lisa is not smiling, she has dimples on both sides of her mouth.

The most overrated,unnecessary piece of 'art'.

Very informative.

WHY DONT YOU TRY AND DECODE THE PLANET,,,,,,,,

Clean her up and she looks like Vladimir Putin lol But i'd rather say he looks like her.

If Mona Lisa hadn't been stolen, and found again, few generations would idolize it, as now. When it was in the Louvre before WWII, it was among the many wonderful works of art, but it was not until it was stolen, did he become an icon. As if any of that matters?

Intriguing film. Thank You! ❤

Leonardo da Vinci was the one that built the first pyramid in egypt. I never once sought out rich people. That was my dad seeking rich people for our works.

Engineering has to do with engines, architecture is constructions and buildings

Not likely 1/4th of what I have penned if you arent including Edgar Allen Poe.

Verrocchio was my dad's name at the time, and I was the master artist of Verrocchio as well as a better engineer. I am technically still his apprentice in plumbing and mechanics but I was the master artist and musician. We are both still alive. Verrocchio and da Vinci.

At least yall got my dad's name right and the fact the he made the sculpture of me.

I walked, no horse or mule.

Berries and oil and flower pedals is what I used to mix the paint.

It was indeed done by da Vinci, under the name bacchus. The man wasn't named bacchus, that is what da Vinci was going by when the painting was done. My dad and I used different names all over Europe, we were using many names to give people names for their children. San Antonio, Texas is and was my home town. I just lived for a time in Florence as well as all over Europe under various names as an artist and musician. My time with the monks of Tibet, they knew my name to be Buddha. I didn't dissect any bodies until I dissected a frog in the 1990's in science class, also a goat eye. my anatomical drawings were done by feeling my own body and drawing what I felt. I didn't dissect people. Or animals. Other people did to prove or disprove my drawings. I studied oxygen for it's density and the effect it has called gravity. Oxygen density causes gravity....

I was da Vinci and the Mona Lisa is the lady shown in Space Force, her future self. The one that showed up for one episode in the purple dress. That is who Mona Lisa is. The cards were miss catageorized when people stole my castle. They didn't even let me finish painting her eyebrows. The Mona Lisa card was for a different painting, but got placed with that painting. The background was a scene in italy that has since been developed. I painted the scenery hundreds of years before "Mona Lisa" was added on top of the scenery. There was no comission, and I wasn't painting a merchants wife. The painting began in the 1300's in Italy, and moved to Spain, where I started "Mona Lisa". Before being moved to my castle, I was almost finished in the 1500's. It was a painting of a scenery that would exist in the future, did for a brief time, got developed over, then I painted a woman that would exist in the future, in her older age and now she does, and it is the lady from that one episode of space force. She just isn't old enough to be recognized yet. The sculpture was indeed da Vinci. da Vinci isn't gay. Though I did say I was gay once to get a single room in a mental health ward once. That way I didn't have to share a room with anyone.

What I think we should give appreciation to is his influence. Leonardo trained with many other great artists who shaped him into the artist he was.

I bet he found himself some Florentine mountain ditch weed

No way.

You guys got it all wrong. You will see those hidden messages, on a certain level of intent.

Lets be honest this should have been called decoding the monalisa...

There are no contemporary historical sources proving Leonardo's homosexuality, so don’t definitely say he is gay .

Never knew about her peripheral smile thing. For the amateur astronomers here, using 'averted vision' really makes it pop!

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I didn’t expect this animal fight to end in such a dramatic way. Nature always surprises me.

Positive thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery!

Leonardo was a genius, and it’s so heartbreaking that he’s just widely known as the person who painted The Mona Lisa, because the majority of people aren’t even capable of understanding his level of genius.
The Mona Lisa in itself shows so much of his brilliance.

I AM the hidden Smile I have the hidden messages NMMR . The mirror 🪞 is not the clue in the hidden relms.... in the Smile, but if you wish to know what the Real meaning is...find me NMMR

Mona lisa is u , whosoever is watching

Mona lisa is u , whosoever is watching

gr8 film, tho i never understood the fascination with mona.

Hi, awesome efforts and well documented hats off.
Some how i have a strong belief that MONA LISA was none other than Leorando himself. He is good at mirror image painting + a gay. Seeing his sculpture done by his master i have no doubt, because they have lots of similarities.
Greetings from India 🙏
Rgds

He copied many of his ideas from Archimedes.

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I'm bothered by all this because.
I need someone to convince me of why we rejected the Aether as fundamental energy potential and the non tangible substrate to all matter.
Seriously, all I can find is tests showing Ether was not detectable. That's not the same as proving it is not real.
Why is there so much bitterness against this modeling because it combines relativity and quantum into one elegant solution. Is it all just peer ego and funding pressure?
Someone please speak up!

Rzym będzie wył.

Rzym będzie płakał.

Not funny but sad how most tourists go to the Louvre and only see the Monalisa and forget the other four paintings.

FABULOUS DOCUMENTARY!!

From science behind the art to the art behind science, just perfect 💯

'The Last Supper' is another one of his great paintings.

Could you make a similar video on a different topic?

I love the painting. As a painter myself I appreciate the beautiful work he has created.