Il Florentine: Leonardo Da Vinci

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During the time he was alive he was referred to pretty much as Leonardo or as "Il Florentine," since he lived around Florence. During the 67 years he was alive he was celebrated internationally as an artist, sculptor and engineer for famous work like . Da Vinci's parents were never married. His mother Caterina was a laborer, and when he was at a young age she married. Starting around age 5, he lived on the property in Vinci that was owned by the family of his father Ser Piero , who was lawyer and legal official. Da Vinci's uncle, helped raise him and both their interest in nature closened their bond they had with each other. Da Vinci got no formal education besides basic reading, writing and math, yet his dad admired his creative ability and sent him to learn from the prominent artist and painter Andrea del Verrocchio, from Florence at around age 15. With this man, Da Vinci perfected his art and sculpting skills also being taught in the mechanical arts. When he was 20 in 1472, the painters' organization of Florence offered Da Vinci an enrollment, yet he stayed with Verrocchio turning him into a more creative master of the arts. Around 1482, he started to paint his first piece of art called The Adoration of the Magi, for Florence's San Donato, a Scopeto religious community. But before he could ever complete that piece of work Da Vinci moved to Milan. He moved to work for the Sforza clan who were in control, serving them with all his talents. He was tasked by the family to make a 16-foot-tall statue of a man on horseback made in bronze to respect Francesco Sforza. He worked on this project for a long time. But, predicting the outcome of war, the bronze that was supposed to be used for the statue was used to make cannon’s instead. So in 1493 a clay model was prepared to show. Unfortunately the statue was destroyed in 1499 after the