{"id":9125,"date":"2005-06-20T23:54:19","date_gmt":"2005-06-20T20:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=9125"},"modified":"2005-06-20T23:54:24","modified_gmt":"2005-06-20T20:54:24","slug":"not-stealing-ideas-from-leonardo-de-vinci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/20\/not-stealing-ideas-from-leonardo-de-vinci\/","title":{"rendered":"Not stealing ideas from Leonardo de Vinci"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I feel a bit stupid and confused now. It seems that I have stolen an idea from Leonardo de Vinci without even knowing it. Let me show you something.<\/p>\n

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Back in March, when my mother was here, I took a picture of her. She had Maxim in her hands and she was looking down at him with lots of love and tender. When I saw the resulting image, I decided to crop Maxim out and leave just my mother in the squared picture. Here is how it looked.<\/p>\n

Zinaida<\/a><\/p>\n

You can see more pictures from the same day here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some time ago, my mother went to the exhibition<\/a> in Moscow, where alongside with some Russian artists were pictures of Italian masters. Among these pictures, was one by Leonardo de Vinci. <\/p>\n

Head of girl<\/a><\/p>\n

Mother translated the title as “Head of girl”. I wanted to see a bigger version of the image, so I went for a quest. While trying to find the better copy, I understood that the original name was somehow different. I kept stumbling upon “Mona Lisa”, but it was totally different from what I was looking for.<\/p>\n

Suddenly, I got on the right track. In this gallery<\/a> I found an image captioned “Study for the Head of Leda, c. 1505-7 (156k)”. Here is a local copy just in case.<\/p>\n

Study for the Head of Leda<\/a><\/p>\n

By “Study for …” I understood that it was a draft and not the final picture. So, I went on and tried to find the final picture. I found one here<\/a>. Here is a local copy again.<\/p>\n

Head of Leda<\/a><\/p>\n

What do we see here? The Grand Master was using a woman that looks down at children with love and tender as a model. And here I am, snapping some family pictures on my digital camera.<\/p>\n

Now I don’t know if I should be glad or sad. On one hand, I’ve used a famous idea and basically copied the Grand Master. On the other hand, I didn’t know about this idea at the time. What do you think?<\/p>\n

Perhaps, I should go study some art before touching my camera ever again…<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

I feel a bit stupid and confused now. It seems that I have stolen an idea from Leonardo de Vinci without even knowing it. Let me show you something.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[2416],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-9125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photography","tag-thoughts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t