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town of Vinci located near Florence, Italy. He lived
during the fifteenth century, which is a period when the
people of Europe become fascinated with art. This
period of time was known as the Renaissance period.
As history tells it, Leonardo Da Vinci was very talented.
He was known as a great artist, but he became famous
because he was able to do so many other things. He
was an architect, a musician, inventor, sculptor,
scientist, and a mathematician. His artistic talent
revealed its self early in his life. When he was about
fifteen years old, Leonardo’s father took him to Florence
Italy, to train as a painter and sculptor in the studio of
Andrea del Verroccho. He studied with this master until
the age of twenty five. At this point, he se
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67 Leonardo died on May 2, 1519, but neither Leonardo
or his art work will ever be forgotten.
He always made sketches of everything around him. His earliest extensive
works date back to this time. Leonardo used what he learned
from nature and science to make his paintings to look
realistic. Leonardo’s scientific research began to
dominate his activities, this led to scientific illustration
thourgh his drawings.
This caused him to make a “master plan”, his plan was
to record the structure of every building in the world.
He accomplished the position as court artist, but also
worked as an engineer and architect. In June 1506,
Leonardo returned to work for Milan for the French
government. There he painted
paintings such as Battle of Anghiari a artistic scene
that was painted for the Council Chamber of Town Hall,
the famous portrait of Mona Lisa, and Leda and the
Swan. He used
shadowing effects to make these paintings look solid
and life like. In the fall of 1499, Leonardo left
France and headed to Florence. t up his own
business and was famous for being a painter and a man
of science.
Leonardo believed that knowledge should be based on
observation. In 1472 he entered
a painters’ professional group.
While in Italy, Leonardo became preoccupied in
theoretical research.
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