@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2022.0878, TITLE={Neoplatonic influence and the divine proportion in the works of Leonardo da Vinci}, AUTHOR={Annalisa Di Maria, Jean-Charles Pomerol, Nathalie Popis, }, JOURNAL={Art and Science}, VOLUME={6}, NUMBER={Issue 3}, YEAR={2022}, URL={https://openscience.fr/Neoplatonic-influence-and-the-divine-proportion-in-the-works-of-Leonardo-da}, DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2022.0878}, ISSN={2515-8767}, ABSTRACT={The influence of the neoplatonic Academy of Florence on the work of Leonardo da Vinci is shown. His fascination for the sacred geometry, the flower of life and especially the golden number appears in many Leonardo’s drawings and paintings. We also show that several sages of the Antiquity are portrayed as apostles in the Last Supper testifying that Leonardo was very interested in the culture of the neoplatonic Academy in search of a syncretism between Plato’s philosophy and Christianism. Finally, we show that the Vitruvian man is designed on the basis of two golden rectangles exactly like the ideal horse probably drawn at about the same time. (Cf. Arts et Sciences n°6, 2022, 48-54).}}