Leonardo da Vinci was the most influential renaissance man during this time, he was Avery important and influential painter who’s paintings are still look at with praise. Da Vinci was Born on April 15,1452 in a farmhouse in Tuscany near Vinci.(Gale). It’s funny that a part of his named is the same name for the place where he had grown up. He is the son of Piero da Vinci. He did not receive much education at a young age. He only learn the basic like reading, writing, and math.(A&E network). He also learned many technical skills like painting, sculpting, and drawing which had most definitely and impact on him in the further years. He was taught these technical skills later on at the age of fourteen because Leonardo became an apprentice of Andrea del Verrocchio who was a good …show more content…
Leonardo painted many world wide paintings that are still looked at in aww in museums. For example some of his most famous paintings and drawings include, Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, St. John the Baptist, and the Vitruvian man. He was also and engineer and a scientist. He made many notes on his science. He did everything. As an sculptor Da Vinci wanted sculpt a large bronze statue of his father and it ended up being clay because the government needed the bronze.(A&E network). As much as Leonardo was know for being such a wonderful painter and sculptor he wasn’t just that, he is also and inventor for he had developed the idea of a flying machine.(A&E network). Later after he left his old city in Italy called Vinci, he helped out a Florentine Emperor Lorenzo de Medici and in return he sent him to the Duke of Milan to help think and come up with engineering military ideas that would be very useful to them.(A&E networks).The ideas that Leonardo came up with many great and intellectual ideas, for example the War Chariot with blades, a armor war tank, and a giant crossbow, this agreement last around seventeen years.(A&E network). Da