Leonardo Da Vinci

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