Name: 達文西最棒的畫作（竟然不是蒙娜麗莎）！ (Leonardo da Vinci's Best Painting (Is Not The Mona Lisa))
Uploaded: 2026-01-28T17:02:54.000Z
Duration: 9 min 13 s

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Hey everybody, Before I start the video, I just want to tell you about something that I've been working on for the past year and a half.

大家好，影片開始之前，我想先跟大家說一件我過去一年半以來一直在努力的事情。

Those of you who've watched my show since the beginning know that it's been my dream forever to write and publish a book.

早期就看我節目的觀眾都知道，寫書、出書一直是我長久以來的夢想。

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I cannot believe I'm actually saying this right now, but

我真的不敢相信我現在說出口，但是

I wrote a book and it'll be coming out this spring in real thick physical copies that you can hold in your hand and buy at bookstores if you can't tell.

我寫了一本書，今年春天就會出版實體書，厚厚一本，你可以拿在手裡，在書店買到，如果你還沒聽出來的話。

I'm extremely excited about this and I'm also excited to show you something.

我對這件事感到非常興奮，也很高興要跟大家分享。

We just finished working on the book cover Introducing Escape into Meaning, a book of essays not unlike the Nerdwriter, but

我們剛完成書封的設計，介紹這本《Escape into Meaning》，這是一本散文集，有點像 Nerdwriter，但

in which I go more in depth about really the biggest obsessions in my life.

我會在裡面更深入地探討我生活中真正最著迷的事情。

The pre order links are live now and you can find them in the description below.

預購連結已經上線了，你可以在下方的說明裡找到。

You'll judge for your yourself when you read it, but

你們讀了之後就會自己判斷，但是

I think this is the best thing I've ever done and I'm so thrilled to finally tell you about it after all this time.

我覺得這是我做過最好的作品，能終於告訴大家，我真的太開心了。

for now I just want to say thank you for watching and thank you for reading.

現在我只想謝謝大家的收看和閱讀。

All right, the video for all his influence and prestige, Leonardo da Vinci didn't really make that many paintings of his total output, which is impossible to know exactly, only about 20 paintings survive to the modern day, and

好的，關於李奧納多·達文西的影響力和聲望，他總共的作品其實沒有畫很多，確切數字很難知道，現存的只有大約20幅畫，

Of these 20 or so two, the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, are arguably the most famous and second most famous paintings in the world.

在這20幅左右的作品中，蒙娜麗莎和最後的晚餐，可以說是世界上最有名和第二有名的畫作。

But there's a less well known canvas, one that was painted around the same time as the Mona Lisa, that I think may be an even better example of Leonardo's genius.

但有一幅較少人知道的畫，大約和蒙娜麗莎是同一時期畫的，我認為那可能更能展現李奧納多的天才。

It's called the Virgin and child with St.

it depicts the infant Jesus and a small lamb huddled with his mother, the Virgin Mary and his grandmother St.

畫面描繪了嬰兒耶穌和一隻小羊，依偎著他們的母親聖母瑪利亞和外婆聖

Anne, in front of a craggy mountainous landscape.

Okay, so what's the first thing you notice in this painting?

好的，這幅畫第一個讓你注意到的是什麼呢？

The first thing I see is the composition of the bodies in a triangle or a pyramid, a shape that was popular for group compositions in the Renaissance, but

我第一個看到的是人物身體組成的三角形或金字塔形，這是文藝復興時期團體構圖常見的形狀，但

which was executed most spectacularly by Leonardo himself 20 years earlier in the Virgin of the Rocks, which had a major influence on other painters like Raphael, for example.

卻是李奧納多自己二十年前在岩石聖母中，以最壯觀的方式呈現的，這對拉斐爾等其他畫家產生了重大影響。

As you can see in these paintings, the pyramid is a shape of stability and strength and it unifies the figures in a greater whole.

你看這些畫作，金字塔形狀代表穩定與力量，並將人物融合成一個更大的整體。

Triangular shapes are also effective tools for getting the eye to move around the canvas.

三角形狀也是引導視線在畫布上移動的有效工具。

The Viewer can't help but glance from corner, corner to corner, and

觀賞者不禁會從一個角落瞥向另一個角落，

Leonardo accentuates this movement with eye lines.

李奧納多用眼神線條來強調這種移動感。

Our attention naturally gets drawn to the apex of the pyramid, where St.

我們的注意力自然會被吸引到金字塔的頂點，也就是聖

Anne looks with a Mona Lisa like smile at her daughter, who looks down at her son, who meets her gaze and sends you back up in the opposite direction.

聖安妮帶著蒙娜麗莎般的微笑看著她的女兒，女兒低頭看著她的兒子，兒子迎向她的目光，又將你的視線引導回相反的方向。

The lamb, which is also on that line and which the infant Jesus grapples with aggressively, is the one point of tension in this otherwise peaceful grouping.

小羊也在此線上，嬰兒耶穌正用力地與牠搏鬥，這是這幅原本寧靜畫面中唯一的張力點。

This sacrificial lamb symbolizes the eventual sacrifice of Jesus on the cross.

這隻祭祀用的小羊象徵著耶穌最終在十字架上的犧牲。

Moving from the apex of the pyramid to its bottom right corner is actually a trip through time, from the past to the present to the future.

從金字塔的頂點移動到其右下角，實際上是一趟穿越時空的旅程，從過去到現在再到未來。

And that timeline also extends along a three dimensional axis.

而這時間軸也沿著一個三維軸延伸。

The lamb is in front of Jesus, who's in front of Mary, who's in front of Anne.

小羊在耶穌前面，耶穌在聖母瑪利亞前面，聖母瑪利亞在聖安妮前面。

But on this axis, it goes even further behind Anne.

但在這個軸線上，它甚至比聖安妮還要後面。

We were launched into the geological past.

These mountains, these bones of the earth, suggest a deep time.

這些山脈，這些大地的骨骸，暗示著悠遠的時間。

So deep that it conflicts with the Christian sense of the age of the world.

所以，這深度甚至與基督教對世界年齡的認知產生了衝突。

That reflects a larger conflict in the Renaissance between religion and a growing appreciation for natural science, which is embodied in no person more than Leonardo da Vinci, the insatiably curious polymath.

這反映了文藝復興時期宗教與日益增長的自然科學欣賞之間的一種更大衝突，而這種衝突在沒有人身上比在達文西身上體現得更淋漓盡致，他是一位求知慾永不滿足的博學家。

Oh, and the Z axis goes in the other direction too.

哦，還有 Z 軸也往另一個方向延伸。

In front of the lamb, deep into the future, is you looking at the painting Leonardo made 500 years ago.

在小羊前面，深入未來，就是你看到達文西 500 年前所繪製的畫作。

But so far I've only talked about composition and design.

但到目前為止，我只談了構圖和設計。

One of the great joys of a Leonardo painting is seeing his extraordinary powers of representation.

達文西畫作的一大樂趣，就是看到他非凡的表現力。

He had a deep first hand knowledge of form and texture and light.

他對形態、紋理和光線有著深刻的第一手知識。

He had personally dissected human cadaver, so he knew precisely how muscle laid on bone and flesh laid on muscle.

他親自解剖過人體屍體，所以他精確地知道肌肉如何附著在骨骼上，以及皮肉如何附著在肌肉上。

You can see that knowledge in Mary's foot and Jesus arm.

你可以在聖母瑪利亞的腳和耶穌的手臂上看到這種知識。

He knew exactly how different fabrics draped and folded.

他精確地知道不同布料如何垂墜和摺疊。

He rendered the lambswool so real, it's as if you can feel it.

他把羊毛畫得栩栩如生，彷彿你可以觸摸到它。

He knew that in the far distance, colors become less vivid and objects become, become hazy.

他知道遠方的顏色會變得不那麼鮮豔，物體也會變得模糊。

I mean, just look at the detail in this pebble and now look at how small it is in relation to the whole canvas.

我是說，看看這顆小石頭的細節，再看看它在整幅畫布中的比例有多小。

Leonardo's obsessiveness is one reason he produced so few works and why he failed to finish many of the ones he started, like this one.

達文西的執著是他作品產量稀少的原因之一，也是他為何未能完成許多畫作的原因，就像這幅一樣。

He embarked on this painting sometime around 1500, we think as a commission from the King of France.

我們認為他大約在 1500 年左右開始畫這幅畫，是受法國國王委託。

But he never delivered it and was still tinkering at the time of his death in 1519.

但他從未交付，直到 1519 年他去世時仍在修改。

But his perfectionism also gives us something like his signature technique of Sfumato, which removes harsh outlines by blending light and dark areas across several gradations of tone and color to better reflect how our eyes actually see.

但他的完美主義也造就了我們看到他標誌性的暈塗法，這種技法透過在多層次的色調和色彩中融合明暗區域，消除了生硬的輪廓，更能反映我們眼睛的實際視覺。

He achieved this by laying down lots of extremely thin layers of translucent glazes, each with the faintest hint of color.

他透過疊加許多極薄的半透明釉彩層來實現這一點，每一層都帶有極其微弱的色彩暗示。

Research using X ray fluorescent spectroscopy on a glaze layer in Jesus Cheek found that less than 8% of it was an earth colored pigment.

使用 X 光螢光光譜儀對耶穌臉頰上的釉彩層進行研究，發現其中不到 8% 是土色顏料。

And the glaze thickness ranged from 30 to 55 micrometers in the dark areas to just a few micrometers in the light areas, never exceeding 80 micrometers altogether.

釉彩厚度在陰影區域從 30 到 55 微米不等，在亮部區域則僅有幾微米，總厚度從未超過 80 微米。

To give you a sense of that, a human hair is, on average 70 micrometers thick.

這樣說好了，一般來說，人類的頭髮厚度約為 70 微米。

That means Leonardo applied up to 30 layers within the thickness of a hair, with each layer of glaze taking from several days to several months to dry.

這表示達文西在一根頭髮的厚度內塗了多達 30 層釉彩，而每一層釉彩乾燥就需要數天到數個月的時間。

Well, maybe you can see why these paintings went unfinished.

嗯，也許你現在能明白為什麼這些畫作會未完成了吧。

Leonardo used similar techniques to create atmospheric effects like you can see in the distant, missing misty mountains.

達文西也用了類似的技法來創造出像遠方那層朦朧山巒般的空氣感效果。

Anne's face beside this rock formation, I see a painter trying to unify the natural and the spiritual with his art.

安妮臉龐旁這塊岩石時，我看到一位畫家試圖用他的藝術來統一自然與靈性。

I see the same when I notice these folds in the Virgin Mary's dress repeated in the earth just behind her.

當我注意到聖母瑪利亞裙子的皺褶與她身後大地上的紋理互相呼應時，我也看到了同樣的巧思。

Then I look at the grouping again, and the symbolism falls away.

然後我再回頭看這個構圖，象徵意義就顯現出來了。

I see a child goofing around and a mother concerned and a grandmother smiling with the wisdom of having gone through the same thing with her daughter not so long ago.

我看到一個玩皮的孩子、一個擔憂的母親，還有一個帶著過來人智慧的奶奶，因為她不久前也和女兒經歷過同樣的事。

It's that smile brought to life by the delicacy of Leonardo's technique, placed at the peak of the pyramid, the top of the mountain, that suffuses the canvas, the family, and

是達文西細膩的筆觸讓這個笑容栩栩如生，置於金字塔的頂端、山峰之巔，這份神韻瀰漫在畫布、這個家庭，以及

With love, of course, that love doesn't solve the mysteries that consumed Leonardo.

當然，愛是存在的，但愛無法解決困擾達文西的謎團。

It would be a few hundred years until we answered the questions he wrestled with.

還要再過幾百年，我們才能解答他苦苦思索的問題。

Questions about optics, anatomy, engineering, and so much more.

這些問題關乎光學、解剖學、工程學，還有更多更多。

But we are infinitely fortunate that Leonardo da Vinci was born before his time, because it was those mysteries, the incoherences of life, that drove him with such faith, fanatical energy to attain a perfect harmony in his art.

但我們非常幸運，達文西生在了他的時代之前，因為正是這些謎團、這些生命中的不協調，驅使他懷抱著如此堅定的信念和狂熱的精力，在藝術中追求完美的和諧。

Hey, everybody, thank you so much for watching.

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如果你不知道，你可以用 Squarespace 來製作各種你需要的精美網站。

A personal site, a wedding website, a site for your business or portfolio.

個人網站、婚禮網站、公司或作品集網站。

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而且只要幾個點擊，你就能擁有一個上線運作的網站。

Their design team has crafted beautiful templates that work on computer browsers and on mobile, switching perfectly between the two.

他們的設計團隊打造了許多精美的範本，無論是在電腦瀏覽器或手機上都能完美運作，兩者之間切換自如。

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你只要幾個點擊就能整合自己的照片和影片，而且

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你甚至可以連結你的社群帳號，這樣你就能在 Squarespace 裡自動發布到 Twitter 和 Facebook。

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前往 squarespace.com 獲得免費試用，而且

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當你準備好要上線你的網站時，前往 squarespace.com nerdwriter，你的首次購買可享 10% 折扣。