Conceptions of Leonardo Da Vinci
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Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the great artists, architects, inventors, and revolutionary thinkers of all time, and for many people Leonardo da Vinci is the Renaissance. When we speak of a Renaissance man as someone who is able to do a lot of different things well, we are thinking of Leonardo. Leonardo died in 1519, but he revived in 1919 and looked at the world that had been created in the 400 years of his "sleep." He would certainly set out to learn all he could about this twentieth century, just as he had tried to learn all he could about his own time when he was first alive. He would be intrigued in particular by the new conception of the self that had emerged from the nineteenth century and the beginning work of Freud on developing an understanding of the human mind, and he would be interested in the new conceptions of architecture that were then being developed, notably by men like Walter Gropius and Otto Wagner. Leonardo would find that the twentieth century had a different conception of reality than did his fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In some ways, the twentieth century was more like what men of the Renaissance were groping for as the moved away from the medieval conceptions of the world, but in other ways the change would be so great as to be disconcerting. What would Leonardo think of this century and its new conceptions of the relationship between the human being and the world? To consider this question, it is first important to analyze what Leonard
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tities with trading and banking systems that were the most sophisticated in Europe and that owed much to the lavish patronage offered by an increasingly secularized papacy (Lucie-Smith 173). The Renaissance was a period that questioned what had been accepted doctrine in the medieval period, and it is this spirit of human inquiry that Leonardo would find still strong in this century.
Leonardo would find an even more secularized world in this century as well. He would also find a new conception of man, a conception more separated from the idea that human behavior is determined by God. Instead he would find the mind described in terms of a clash of forces. Sigmund Freud developed a theory of the dynamics of the human kind and gave birth to psychoanalytic theory and practice as a way of analyzing human behavior and addressing human problems. Freud's approach indicates that there are certain innate processes at work, but there is also a dependence on the family structure for the specific moral framework which is imparted to the child and which the child learns and incorporates into his or her psychological structure. Freud developed his theory at the end of the nineteenth century at a time when Darwin had demonstrated that huma
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