The Master of All Renaissance Art Leonardo da Vinci is one of the most recognized artists in the Renaissance and arguably of all time. He was an illegitimate child born on April 15, 1452, in Anchiano, Italy. He lived in Anchiano for five years until he and his family moved to a small town called Vinci. Interestingly, his surname means "of Vinci." Much like most great pioneers of history little is known about his childhood. Also, like most great artists during the Renaissance, he was tutored by the most respected artist of his time. But he was not only a magnificent painter he was also an engineer, a sculptor, a scientist, and an inventor. As with most great men of the past, little is recorded about his childhood. Other than where he lived and where he was born there are only two incidents that are recorded about his early childhood. The first is where he was flying a kite over a castle and the other where he was exploring the mountains and found a cave. Nothing else is recorded when he was fourteen when he entered became an apprentice of Andrea del Verrocchio, the most respected artist of …show more content…
At the young age of 20, he was skilled enough to be titled a master. Nevertheless, he stayed under Andrea del Verrocchio as an apprentice for four more years. After this, he opened his own shop and even got commissioned to make a sixteen-foot bronze horse statue by Charles VIII, but it was destroyed during a French invasion. The leader if the invasion later commissioned him to make the same horse, but after a while decided to have him make a smaller one. This was not his only exposure to war, however, during the second Italian war he was employed as a military engineer and invented many things to defend his city such as armored carts and giant crossbows and the