A presentation describing the multiple abilities of Leonardo da Vinci, the perfect example of the Renaissance man. A genius with a brilliant mind which manifested a talent for anatomy, engineering, painting, sculpturing, drawing, music, literature, and even cooking

1. LEONARDO DA VINCI,
A BRILLIANT MIND
Daniela Chueke
Lenin Berrueta
Stephanie Perry
Juliana Bermudez Yacaman
Tony German
Jamie Appelt
Jonathan Rios
Zachary Ugartemendia
Natalie Aquilia
Deondre Grays
Vincent Fazio

2. Leonardo di Ser Piero da Vinci Date of
Birth: April 15th, 1452 Place of Birth:
Anchiano (near from Vinci) Date of
Death: May 2nd, 1519 (67 Years old)
Place of Death: Cloux
The best example of the Renaissance man. His genius was
manifested in a variety of fields such as drawing, painting,
sculpture, engineering, anatomy, and some not so known as
cooking, music or literature

3. INTRODUCTION
• The illegitimate son of Ser Piero da Vinci and Catherina.
• From childhood he showed a great ability for the arts.
• It is known that he was a vegetarian for ethical reasons.
• He was famous for his mirror writing.
• (1466) He was was admitted to the workshop of Andrea del
Verrocchio.
• (1476) He was accused of maintaining homosexual relationships.
• (1482-1499) He established his own workshop.
• (1498) He moved to Mantua, then to Venice and finally to Florence,
where he worked for Cesare Borgia.
• (1513-1516) He worked in Rome.
• (1516) He worked for King Francis I until he died.

4. HIS 7 CREATIVE PRINCIPLES
1. Curiosita
2. Dimostrazione
3. Sensazione
4. Sfumato
5. Arte/Scienza
6. Corporalita
7. Connessione

5. HISTORY OF INTELLIGENCE
Simply put, human
intelligence is the
intellectual capacity
of humans as seen
in the following
mental phenomena.
Intelligence has been defined
many ways throughout history,
in terms such as:
• Capacity for logic
• Abstract thought
• Understanding,
• Self-awareness
• Communication
• Learning
• Emotional knowledge
• Memory
• Planning
• Problem solving
Through our intelligence,
humans possess the
cognitive abilities to:
• Learn
• Form concepts
• Understand
• Reason
• Recognize patterns
• Comprehend ideas
• Plan
• Problem solve
• Use language to
communicate

6. PSYCHOMETRICS
The first
psychometric
instruments
were designed
to measure
intelligence
1905 :
Binet-Simon IQ test is
developed by the French
Psychologist Alfred Binet
with the help of his
research assistant,
The field of study concerned with
the theory and technique of
psychological measurement.
Involves the objective
measurement of skills, knowledge,
abilities, attitudes, personality
traits, and educational
measurement
Composed of two major research tasks:
I. The construction of instruments and
procedures for measurement
II. The development and refinement of
theoretical approaches to measurement

7. INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT
(IQ)
An intelligence quotient, or IQ, is a score that comes from one of several
standardized tests designed to show intelligence. Approximately 95 percent
of the population scores an IQ between 70 and 130. IQ scores are used as
predictors of educational achievement, special needs, job performance and
income. Scores on IQ tests have been rising at an average rate of three IQ
points per decade since the early 20th century. This is called the effect.
There is a wide variety of IQ tests. Some tests are visual, some are verbal,
some tests only use abstract-reasoning problems, and some tests
concentrate on arithmetic, spatial imagery, reading, vocabulary, and memory
or general knowledge. Despite the environmental effects on IQ, heritability
still plays a bigger role in determining overall IQ. Genetics play an 80% factor
in what you will score. factors can mean the loss or gain of a few points here
or there, but it pales in comparison to what you're born with.

8. FUN FACTS
Contrary to popular belief, the higher your IQ, the more likely you're
socially smart
Junk food diets for kids under three can lead to lower IQs
Breastfeeding can increase a child's IQ by three to eight points
Summer vacation can drop your IQ
People with a lower-than-average IQ (between 75 and 90) are more
likely to drop out, go to jail and live in poverty

9. GARDNER’S THEORY OF
MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
As opposed to standard IQ tests, Howard
Gardner came up with his own theory of
measuring intelligence.
In 1983, Howard Gardener
publishes Frames of Mind:
The Theory of Multiple
Intelligences. Initially, there
were six intelligences,
which they have now
developed into nine (and
there may potentially be
more).

11. Although most psychologists prefer Gardner's test, educational
systems undergo class placement utilizing the Stanford-Binet
IQ test.
Gardner opposes the idea of labeling learners to a specific
intelligence. Each individual possesses a unique blend of all
the intelligences. Gardner firmly maintains that his theory of
multiple intelligences should "empower learners", not restrict
them to one modality of learning.

12. LOGICAL-MATHEMATICAL
Leonardo had a grasp for higher mathematics but he did not
know how to how to express it in the academic form of
numbers we recognize in mathematics today. but even
when leonardo learnt the language of mathematics he
preferred computing through geographical shapes to
calculate equations, which also enlisted his artistic abilities.
leonardo’s main pursuit in mathematics remained the
exploration of the world of proportionality and spatial
mechanics.

13. Leonardo preferred drawing maths because pure maths
inexplicable qualities of reality that are better replicated with
a drawing. math is only a tool to produce an outcome but
leonardo preferred drawing as his primary tool to execute
his studies of proportionality and spatial awareness, which
are used in his engineering designs.

14. An academic scholar that leonardo studied traditional
mathematics from and later worked with was Luca Pacioli
whom Leonardo later contributed in producing a book with in
the 1490’s. Leonardo created drawings of geometrical
shapes that had a mathematical significance in engraved
plate form, which were then to be used in printing presses.
The work produced was published in 1509 call Divina
Proportione.
-Tony

15. MUSICAL
He knew how to play the flute and the lyre, which was a stringed instrument well
known for its use in Greek antiquity. And according to Historian Vasari who knew
Da Vinci, said that “he sang divinely without any preparation.” We even have a
few manuscripts that contain some original musical compositions that still exist
today is believed that Da Vinci probably had written more music but it was never
found.
There is little doubt that music played an influential role in the development of Da
Vinci’s mind. Though Da Vinci is most known for being an exceptional painter, he
acknowledged that music was only second to the supremacy of vision.
Leonardo wrote, “Music may be called the sister of painting, for she is dependent
upon hearing, the sense which comes second…painting excels and ranks higher
than music, because it does not fade away as soon as it is born…”

16. • When Da Vinci painted, he always sought musical accompaniment to
stimulate his senses. He believed that when all his senses were awake,
the mind could be better nourished and more productive. Probably all
the masterpiece paintings that we all enjoy looking at were given birth
with musical notes flying through the air.
• Listening (music, sounds, and silence) was second on his list of
senses, and he wrote a lot about the importance of developing all the
senses in harmony to achieve the highest levels of consciousness.
According to Da Vinci, the two were indivisible and necessary to
achieve understanding of the logic and beauty of the world.
• Music is a human need that cherishes beauty, and underneath that
blanket of beauty, lie the details, the precision, the logic, and the code
of organized sound. See more at: http://www.themusiconomy.com/da-
vincis-code-of-music.html#sthash.jocYlcS9.dpuf

17. Other interesting facts
• In 1472, the Guild of St. Luke, a prestigious guild of artists and doctors of
medicine, accepted Da Vinci as their master.
• Da Vinci and Michelangelo were contemporaries and arch rivals. They are
recorded to have shared such a bitter relationship that they had even
insulted each other in public.
• Leonardo Da Vinci took as long as ten years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
• He was one of the first few Italian artists to have used oil paints for
painting, instead of egg tempera.
• Apart from being a Renaissance polymath, Da Vinci was also one of the
alleged grandmasters of the Priory of Sion, a secret society that was
formulated for the protection of the race of Christ.

18. SPATIAL
What is it?
It is the ability to vividly imagine.
Your mind allows you to see things in steps.

19. How to identify it?
People with strong spatial intelligence are visual
learners.
Spatial intelligence is more common in men than in
women.
Usually a strong spatial intelligence works well arts
and science

20. How to enhance your spatial intelligence?
Visualize
Create
Practice

21. LINGUISTIC
Leonardo's writings are mostly in mirror-image
cursive. The reason may have been more a practical
expediency than for reasons of secrecy as is often
suggested. Since Leonardo wrote with his left hand,
it is probable that it was easier for him to write from
right to left.

22. His notes and drawings display an enormous range of interests and
preoccupations, some as mundane as lists of groceries and people
who owed him money and some as intriguing as designs for wings
and shoes for walking on water.
These notebooks—originally loose papers of different types and sizes,
distributed by friends after his death—have found their way into major
collections such as the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, the Louvre,
the Biblioteca Nacional de España, the Victoria and Albert Museum,
the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan which holds the twelve-volume
Codex Atlanticus, and British Library in London which has put a
selection from the Codex Arundel (BL Arundel MS 263) online.

23. The Codex Leicester is the only major scientific work of
Leonardo's in private hands. It is owned by Bill Gates and is
displayed once a year in different cities around the world.
Leonardo's notes appear to have been intended for
publication because many of the sheets have a form and
order that would facilitate this. In many cases a single topic,
for example, the heart or the human fetus, is covered in
detail in both words and pictures on a single sheet. Why
they were not published within Leonardo's lifetime is
unknown.

24. NATURALISTIC
What is a Naturalistic view?
Da Vinci’s interest in his work is what motivated him
to enable his artistic abilities to shine.
Da Vinci found painting to be absolutely beautiful
when imitating nature in his works.
How did this benefit his works?

25. Da Vinci drawing of Virgin and Child and With
a Cat; expresses his fascination with the
quality of the beauty of human nature.
There was also a movement that he was
trying to draw the creature’s mental attitudes
and to uncover their emotional interactions
with each other.
This is important because it really helped
planning the composition of the drawing to
determine how the figures will fit mentally and
physically in the work.
How can we relate this to artwork today?

26. BODILY-KINESTHETIC

27. CONTROVERSY: THEORY OF
MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE VS
THEORY OF INTELLECTUAL
QUOTIENT
Theory of Multiple Intelligence Criticisms
All seven forms of intelligence are not of equal importance and value.
Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences is not legitimate because
there are not specific tests to measure the seven intelligences.
Gardner’s theory is incompatible with g.
Gardner’s theory expands the definition of intelligence beyond
usefulness.

28. The Theory of the Intellectual Quotient (IQ)
Criticisms
Intelligence tests fail to measure underlying processes.
IQ tests are biased against ethnic minorities.
Knowledge of their IQs may inhibit children’s level of
aspiration and affect their self-confidence.
Intelligence tests limit our understanding of intelligence
and sample only a limited number of conditions under
which intelligent behavior are revealed.