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Moreover, he came to Venice not as a famous artist who came to admire Venice, but practically as a military engineer.<\/strong><\/p>\n After the fall of Milan in 1499, Leonardo, together with Luca Pacioli, travelled from Milan via Mantua to Venice.<\/p>\n He didn't stay in Venice for long\u2014about a month. His presence here is well documented. March 13, 1500<\/strong>By April he was already in Florence.<\/p>\n And here's the most interesting part.<\/p>\n At that time, the Venetian Republic was seriously afraid of an attack by the Ottomans. Leonardo was brought in specifically as an engineer<\/strong> - he studied the defensive capabilities of the territory, especially the direction towards Friuli and along the Isonzo.<\/p>\n He even prepared proposals for fortifications and defense against the Turkish offensive.<\/p>\n Leonardo found himself in Venice not so much as an artist, but as a man who knew how to see space like an engineer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n There is another wonderful detail: in Venice Leonardo is practically I didn't paint<\/strong>.<\/p>\n He found himself here precisely in his guise as a man who looks at the world differently:<\/p>\n how water works, For him, Venice was more than just a city of palaces and canals. It was a complex system that could be studied, measured, and transformed.<\/p>\n I was with him Luca Pacioli<\/strong> - a mathematician with whom Leonardo was very close.<\/p>\n And before Venice they stopped in Mantua Isabella d'Este<\/strong>It was there that Leonardo made his famous drawing of her portrait, which is now in the Louvre.<\/p>\n Venice did not greet Leonardo as a great artist. Leonardo in Venice. He came to Venice not as a famous artist who came to admire Venice, but practically as a military engineer. After the fall of Milan in 1499, Leonardo, along with [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iskusstvo"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nVenice didn't expect paintings from him.<\/h3>\n
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The city through the eyes of an engineer<\/h3>\n
how to defend the city,
how people and troops move,
How can you change the space?<\/strong><\/p>\nAnd Leonardo didn't come alone<\/h3>\n
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She saw in him an engineer\u2014a man capable of reading the city as a system.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"