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Leonardo da Vinci was born in Italy 15th April 1452
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From an early age, Lenoardo da Cinvi liked watching people and things around him carefully. He spent a lot time on the countryside. There he made drawings of the things around him.
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When he was 14 years old, Leonardo followed his father to Florence. He learned art and worked at a famous art wordkshop. He was a good student at the workshop.
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Leonardo's teacher chose him to be his helper. Together they painted Baptism of Christ.
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He is very intelligent. Besides painting, he was good at science subjects too. He liked to study how tools and machines worked.
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When he was 43 years old, the church invied him to do a difficult painting job. He finish his painting for 3 years, the people in the church like his paining very much. His painting was called The Last Supper. Most artist painted a ring of light around Jesus's head but he decided to just give off light. This was his special style.
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Leonardo started working on the famous painting -Mona LIsa, but the lady did not smile, so he invited some musicians to play music so that Mona Lisa would smile. After 4 years of hard work, people began to talk about her smile.:)
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With the purpose of painting more people artwork, Lenardo study the Human Embryo. He was also the first one to study it. Many people respiected his cleverness.
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Leonardo got an invitation of King Francois, because the king considered him to be the greatest of the ages' minds'. So he moved to France.
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Leonardo da Vinci died in France on 2nd May 1519
