Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo
Da Vinci (full name: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci) was born on 15th
April 1452 in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci in The Republic of Florence.
He does not have a surname and his name means “Leonardo of Vinci”. He
was public figure of the Italian Renaissance time. Throughout his life
he has worked as painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, mathematician
and inventor. Other than that, his work of interest made him anatomist,
geologist, cartographer, botanist, writer and musician.
Childhood
Leonardo
is said to have born out-of-wedlock to a wealthy Father Messer Piero
Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a Florentine legal notary and mother
Caterina, a peasant. He spent his initial five years at his mother’s
home in Anchiano and later lived with his father, grandparents and
uncle, Francesco, in the small town of Vinci.
Education
Leonardo
received an informal education in Latin, geometry and mathematics. In
1466, when he was 14 he joined the finest workshop in Florence, of the
artist Andrea di Cione. Here Leonardo took his formal trainings of both
theoretical training 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 modeling. By 1472, at the age of
twenty, Leonardo qualified as a master in the Guild of St Luke.
Career
From
1482-99, Leonardo worked in Milan where he was commissioned to paint
the “Virgin of the Rocks” for the Confraternity of the Immaculate
Conception and “The Last Supper” for the monastery of Santa Maria delle
Grazie. At the start of Second Italian War in 1499, Leonardo returned to
Florence. Here he created the cartoon of “The Virgin and Child with St.
Anne and St. John the Baptist”, a work that won such admiration all
over that people flocked see it.
Leonardo
returned to Florence where he rejoined the Guild of St Luke on October
18, 1503, and spent two years designing and painting a mural of The
Battle of Anghiari for the Signoria.
He
was also known for his engineering skills when he produced the concept
of flying machines, armored vehicle and moving barricade system to
protect a city against attack.
At the End
In
the later years of his life, Leonardo Da Vinci produced his still best
known art work – “Mona Lisa” on which he worked between 1503 and 1505.
Leonardo died at Clos Lucé, on 2nd May 1519. He was buried in the Chapel
of Saint-Hubert in Château d'Amboise, in France.
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