萊昂納多•達•芬奇是一個怎樣的天才
來聽今天的講解:
A: I've just finished reading a great book. The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown.
我剛看完《達•芬奇密碼》,這本書不錯,是丹•布朗寫的。
B: I've read it, too. It got me really interested in Leonardo Da Vinci, so I started doing some.
我也看了。它真的使我對萊昂納多•達•芬奇產(chǎn)生了興趣,所以我就開始在這方面做些研究。
A: Mc too! What did you discover?
我也是!你有什么發(fā)現(xiàn)?
B: Well, it sounds like he was a strange. but very gifted man He was a painter, inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician and philosopher.
是這樣,他看上去很奇怪,但很有天賦。他既是畫家,也是發(fā)明家、建筑師、工程師、數(shù)學家和哲學家。
A: Yes, a genius the world has never seen the like of again so far. He was born in 1452, in Anchiaro, probably in a farmhouse.
是的,一個迄今為止世界上再也找不出來的天才。他1452年生于安基亞諾村,可能是存一個農(nóng)舍里出生的。
B: But his father didn't marry his mother, because she was the daughter of a farmer and nor from a wealthy family.
但他父親并沒有娶他母親,因為他母親是個農(nóng)夫的女兒,不是富家小姐。
A: Today, all we know about her is her name, Catarina. When he was five years old he moved to a nearby town called "Vinci".
今天我們只知道他媽媽的名字叫凱特暇安。達•芬奇5歲時,他搬到了附近一個叫“芬奇”的小鎮(zhèn)。
B: It sounds like he was a precocious child, his teachers despaired about all the questions he asked and doubts about the world.
聽起來他好像是個早熟的孩子,他的老師們都被他提出的問題難住了,也無法向他解釋他對周圍世界的疑惑。.
A: It seems that many geniuses asked too many questions during childhood! When he was fourteen he moved to Florence where he began an apprenticeship in the workshop of Verrocchio.
好像很多天才童年時都喜歡問很多的問題!達•芬奇14歲時,搬到了佛羅倫薩,在那里他開始在韋羅基奧的畫室當學徒。
B: At that time Verrocchio was the most gifted artist in Florence. There's no doubt that Verrocchio had a great influence on Leonardo.
那時韋羅基奧是佛羅倫薩最有天份的藝術(shù)家。毫無疑問他對達•芬奇產(chǎn)生了巨大影響。
A: He worked with lots of other famous artists, too. Such as Botticelli, Perugino and Lorenzo di Credi..
達•芬奇還跟許多其他有名的藝術(shù)家工作過.如波提切剩、佩魯賈和洛倫佐•迪•克勒迪。
B: Really? So he was definitely in the company of some great people. their talents must have rubbed off on him.
真的嗎?那就是說他一定經(jīng)常接觸一些偉人,他們的天才肯定也影響了一他。
A: In 1472 Leonardo became a member of the Painters Guild of Florence, so he ended his apprenticeship. But he continued to work in Verrocchio's workshop.
1472年,萊昂納多成為了佛羅倫薩畫家協(xié)會的一員,也因此結(jié)束了他的學徒生涯。但他仍然留在韋羅基奧的畫室工作。
B: I read that his first known work was a pen and ink drawing of a valley next to the river Arno. It's drawn from an aerial perspective, this style would later become known as "the perspective of disappearance .
我知道他的第一幅名畫是關(guān)于亞諾河附近一個山谷的鋼筆畫。這幅畫是用空間透視法畫的,這種風格就是后來人人皆知的“明暗漸進法”。
A: After c.hat he created many famous works, The Baptism of Christ, The Annunciation and of course The Mona Lisa.
此后,他又創(chuàng)造J,很多有名的作品,如《基督受洗圖》,《天使報喜》,當然還有《蒙娜•麗莎》。
B: With all of his paintings and inventions, like the first flying machine, it will take us a long time to research everything!
他所有的繪畫作品和發(fā)明創(chuàng)造,就像第一架飛行器一樣,要想每樣都研究得花我們很長時間。