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He was born in Anchiano, Florence. His mother, a Peasant and his father, a Notary. He was a renaissance man. He was an Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. He had many and diverse fields of arts and sciences. He died on May 2, 1519.
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Leonardo was exposed to both theoretical trainiong and a vast range of technical skills, including drafting, chemistry, metallurgy, metal working, plaster casting, leather working, mechanics and carpentry as well as the artistic skills of drawing, painting, sculpting and modelling. Leonardo collaborated with Verrocchio on his Baptism of Christ painting.
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The angel holds a Madonna lily, a symbol of Mary's virginity and of the city of Florence. It is supposed that Leonardo originally copied the wings from those of a bird in flight, but they have since been lengthened by a later artist
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In 1472, at the age of twenty, Leonardo qualified as a master in the Guild of St. Luke. Even though he had his own workshop, he continued to collaborate with Verrocchio.
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Leonardo was working on inventing flying machines.Since he was a small child he always wondered about flying.
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Leonardo was fascinated by the flight, producing many studies of the flight of birds. This included his Codex on the Flight of Birds, as well as plans for many flying machines. Within these plans he designed a helicopter and a light hang glider. Most were useless and didn't work, like his screw helicopter design that could not provide lift. However, the hang glider has been successfully constructed and demonstrated based on his designs.
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It is accompanied by notes based on work by Vitruvius. The drawing displays a male figure with his arms and legs apart and in a circle and square.
"The drawing is based on the correlations of ideal human proportions with geometry described[4] by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius in Book III of his treatise De Architectura."-Wikipedia -
It represents the scene of The Last Supper from the final days of Jesus as narrated in the Gospel of John 13:21, when Jesus announces that one of his Twelve Apostles would betray him. Steinberg, Leo. Leonardo's Incessant 'Last Supper'". New York: Zone Books, 2001
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The painting is a half-length portrait and depicts a seated woman whose facial expression is frequently described as enigmatic.
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Virgin of the Rocks was the first painting executed by Leonardo after he arrived in Milan. Critics argue over exactly what the painting depicts; some claim it shows the immaculate conception, while others think it recalls the moment when the infant Christ met St John the Baptist.
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Leonardo ended up learning anatomy due to his apprenticeship. Andrea del Verrocchio insisted it.
"As a successful artist, he was given permission to dissect human corpses at the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence and later at hospitals in Milan and Rome."-Wikipedia Leonardo also dissected different animals and compared them to the human anatomy. -
Leonardo da Vinci, designs a machine for grinding convex lenses
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In 1506, Leonardo took on another pupil, Count Francesco Melzi, the son of a Lombard aristocrat, who is considered to have been his favourite student.He travelled to France with Leonardo, and remained with him until the latter's death.Upon Leonardo's death, Melzi inherited the artistic and scientific works, manuscripts, and collections of Leonardo, and faithfully administered the estate.
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From 1513-1519, Leonardo spent much of his time living in the Belvedere in the Vatican in Rome, where Rahael and Micheangelo were both active at the time. In 1516, he entered Francois' service being given the use of the manor house Clos Luce near the king's residence. It was here that he spent the last three years of his life and where he died on May 2, 1519.
