Leonardo da Vinci
Leonard da Vinci, who greatly influenced many artists with his work of “Mona Lisa”, “The Last Supper” and many others was born April 15th 1452 in Vinci. He was concerned with the laws of science and nature, which helped influenced his work as a painter, sculptor, inventor and draftsman. These paintings made da Vinci a leader for artists to follow for Italian Renaissance. Da Vinci’s full birth name was “Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci” and was the son of Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a Florentine notary, and Caterina, a slave from the Middle East.
At the age of fourteen, da Vinci began understanding and appreciating the art of Verrocchio. For years he had learned a variety of technical skills, including metalworking, leather arts, carpentry, drawing and sculpting. Da Vinci received no formal education beyond basic reading, writing and math, but his father appreciated his artistic talent and apprenticed him at around age 15 to the noted sculptor
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She was sixteen years old and an orphan when her lover, Duke Ludovico, gave her the estate of Saronno. Cecilia was the mistress of Ludovico, and she is also is holding the heraldic, animal of Ludovico. Cecilia thought that the painting did not look like her later in the years because the painting was when she was younger and it no longer resembled her so she didn’t want anyone to see it (Aquino 112). The Painting is Oil on panel, and is currently displayed in Krakow, Czartoryski Museum.
De Vinci’s painting style stood out more than others because of his impressive scientific approach towards his work. He was on of the few artists who mastered the concept of the “vanishing point”, which is a remarkable sense of depth and three-dimensionality in a two-dimensional frame. Leonardo influenced many artists of Milan and Florence; they all really grasped his message as an artist and all his aspects of his