Leonardo Da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci
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
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Many of his pupils include
Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, and Fra Bartolommeo.
Leonardo da Vinci is one of the greatest minds in history. He understood, better than anyone
of his century or the next, the importance of precise scientific observation. In 1516 he traveled to France to enter the service of King Francis. He was among the first
to ever concieve of the science of hydraulics and probably devised the
hydrometer.
He spent his last years at the ChÐ"Ñžteau de Cloux, near Amboise, where he
died, in 1519. 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. Sfumato is characterized by subtle, almost
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