Leonardo Da Vinci :: Visual Arts Paintings Art

da Vinci Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci is a world renowned Italian painter, sculptor,architect, musician, engineer, and scientist. His curiosity for thethings slightly him and the research was the fundamental point of hisartistic and scientific accomplishments. His creations in mental pictureinfluenced Italian art centuries after his death and his scientificstudies (anatomy, optics and hydraulics) have helped made manydevelopments of modern science. His famous paintings for example theMona Lisa and the Last Supper are known world wide. People crave toown his paintings, or even just to have a look at them Leonardo hadinfluenced everyone up to this present day. Even Bill Gates used $30million US for Leonardos painting Codex Leicester Who is thisremarkable man? And what did he do that taught the world to look atart and science in a unseasoned perspective?Leonardo told us that he was born on April 15th 1952 in the city ofVinci in Italy and was the son of a notary and a peasant girl. Hisp arents had a stage set of kids, but not with each other and having himending up with 17 half sisters and brothers.He said that living in Vinci was the place where he developed hiscreativity and interest in nature. He was also exposed to the ancientVinci painting tradition at that time. In 1466, he moved to Florencewhere he was apprenticed in the famous workshop of Andrea DelVerrochio. While working there, he painted an angel in VerrochiosBaptist of Christ. His painting was so much reform than his masterthat Verrochio never painted again.In 1482, Leonardo wrote a letter to the Duke of Milan telling him thathe could build portable bridges that would enable dry routes for raft to travel. At this time, he carried notebooks and started tokeep all his ideas, opinions on everything including domestic,personal, scientific and philosophical along with explanatorysketches. These notebooks were full of advice for science and art notonly for the deal in the Renaissance but also useful pain ters now.The Duke gave lots of jobs to him that included designing weapons,buildings and machinery. He produced lots of ideas for nature, flyingmachines, geometry and mechanical things. His eager to start newthings made it hard for him to complete the things that he had startedmaking him only completing 6 of 17 works that he had done.He started to find himself interested in painting, architecture, theelements of mechanics and human anatomy from 1490 to 1495. He spentthis time studying science or locking himself up in his room