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Leonardo da Vinci was born on Saturday April 15, 1452 at three o’clock in the morning.
This is true because his grandfather wrote notes that they found. Leonardo was born in a
small village of Vinci. It is located between Tuscan cities of Pistoia and Empoli. When
Leonardo was a young child he showed extraordinary talent. He learned to play music and to
play the lyre. He was also a beautiful singer and good in areas of mathematics. When
Leonardo was at a young age he was usually found out sketching plants and animals. Leonardo
was one of the greatest painters and one of the most well known geniuses in history. The
pictures Mona Lisa and the scene of The Last Supper rank among the most famous pictures
ever painted. Leonardo was trained to be a painter. “Leonardo studied anatomy, astronomy,
botany, geology, geometry, and optics, and he designed machines and drew plans for hundreds
of inventions.” Because he was so smart in many areas in human knowledge, they called him a
universal genius. He also had a small interest in literature, history, or religion. He drew
things as they were. The name da Vinci means from Vinci. Verrocchio and Leonardo worked
together to paint The Baptism of Christ about 1472. “From about 1478 to 1482, Leonardo had
his own studio in Florence. During that time he was asked to paint a church altarpiece that
is now known as the Adoration of the Kings. Leonardo never finished the Adoration of the
Kings because he left Florence about 1482 to become court artist for Ludovico Sforza, the
duke of Milan. “Leonardo lived in Milan until 1499.” He had many choices of duties for the
duke’s court. As a military engineer, he designed many things such as the artillery of
the military and the fortresses. As a civil engineer, he made a system of locks for Milan’s
canals and designed stages for pageants. As a sculptor, he planned duke’s father mounted
on a horse. About 1483, Leonardo painted the Madonna of the Rocks.
"Leonardo was and is best known as an artist, the creator of such masterpieces as the
Mona Lisa, Madonna of the Rocks, and The Last Supper. Yet Leonardo was far more than a great
artist: he had one of the best scientific minds of his time. He made painstaking observations
and carried out research in fields ranging from architecture and civil engineering to astronomy
to anatomy and zoology to geography, geology and paleontology. In the words of his biographer
Giorgio Vasari:
"The most heavenly gifts seem to be showered on certain human beings. Sometimes
supernaturally, marvelously, they all congregate in one individual. . . . This was seen and
acknowledged by all men in the case of Leonardo da Vinci, who had. . . an indescribable grace
in every effortless act and deed. His talent was so rare that he mastered any subject to which
he turned his attention. . . He might have been a scientist if he had not been so versatile."
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