Leonardo da Vinci is one of the greatest minds in history. He is highly skilled
             and has complete mastery in art, science, and engineering. In an era filled
             with other Brilliant minds, the achievements that he has made in his lifetime,
             in the fields of science, and art was inconceivable and too advanced for his
             time period, and was not thought of again until modern times.
             Leonardo da Vinci is one of the great masters of the Renaissance.
             Celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist, he
             revolutionized how the modern man thinks, and paved the way for modern
             Leonardo was born in the small town of Vinci, in Tuscany, near
             Florence. He was the son of a wealthy Lawyer and a peasant
             woman. Leonardo was given the best education that Florence, a major
             intellectual and artistic center of Italy, could offer. He rapidly advanced
             socially and intellectually. He was persuasive in conversation, and a fine
             In about 1466, he was accepted as an apprentice to Andrea del
             Verrocchio, the leading Florence painter and sculptor of his day. In
             Verrocchio's workshop Leonardo was introduced to many activities, from the
             painting of altarpieces and panel pictures to the creation of large sculptural
             In 1478 Leonardo became an independent master, and where upon,
             he moved to Milan, to work for the duke, Ludovico Sforza. Leonardo, there
             boasted, to the duke that he could build portable bridges; that he knew the
             techniques of constructing bombardments and of making cannons; that he
             could build ships as well as armored vehicles, catapults, and other war
             machines; and that he could execute sculpture in marble, bronze, and clay.
             He served as principal engineer in the duke's numerous military campaigns
             and was active also as an architect.
             While in Milan, from about 1495 to 1497 Leonardo labored on his
             masterpiece, The Last Supper. Unfortunately, his experimental u...