Leonardo Da Vinci Raphael And Michelangelo The Great Maste

Leonardo da Vinci , Raphael and Michelangelo they form the traditional trinity of great masters of the High Renaissance

Leonardo da Vinci remains the single most powerfully creative and historically influential figure in human history. Leonard Shlain an associate professor of surgery at University of California in his a remarkable book, Leonardo Vinci\u2019s Brain: Understanding Da Vinci\u2019s Creative Genius, embarks on an astounding investigation into da Vinci\u2019s brain. A posthumous study of Leonardo Vinci\u2019s neuroanatomy is unlocking the secrets of how his astonishing brain was able to function at such a superhuman level. Slain reveals how the \u201cundereducated, left-handed, nearly ambidextrous, vegetarian, pacifist, gay, singularly creative Renaissance male\u201d was able to \u201cattain a different state of consciousness than practically all other humans.\u201d Leonardo da Vinci together with Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (known as Raphael) and Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (known as Michelangelo), they form the traditional trinity of great masters of the High Renaissance period.

The Medici family, also known as the House of Medici, first attained wealth and political power in Florence in the 13th century through its success in commerce and banking. Beginning in 1434 with the rise to power of Cosimo de\u2019 Medici (or Cosimo the Elder), the family\u2019s support of the arts and humanities made Florence into the cradle of the Renaissance, a cultural flowering rivaled only by that of ancient Greece. The Medicis produced four popes, Leo X, Clement VII, Pius IV, Leo XI,