How intelligent does a person have to be to be considered a genius? Does his talents have to exceed from the norm in one particular area or few? It is definitely a special kind of human being with exceptional talents, abilities, and intellect. It can be described as trust in your own intuition on solving of a task where a regular person would fear to take a risk. The achievements should be positively viewed by the environment because a genius also needs to be a good example to others, trying to educate or influence them to expend their scholar abilities. Leonardo da Vinci fits into the description of a genius and definitely was one . Leonardo de Vinci was born in the time of Renaissance on April 15, 1452 in the town of Vinci just outside of Florence in Italy. The time of Renaissance is the historical period from the 14th to the 16th century, rediscovery of rational civilization and the word is French for 'rebirth'. Information from the museum of science state that Leonardo was "Growing up in his father's Vinci home, Leonardo had access to scholarly texts owned by family and friends. He was also exposed to Vinci's longstanding painting tradition, and when he was about 15 his father apprenticed him to the renowned workshop of Andrea del Verrochio in Florence." Leonardo had 17 half-siblings …show more content…
However, da Vinci never completed that piece, because shortly thereafter he relocated to Milan to work for the ruling Sforza clan, serving as an engineer, painter, architect, designer of court festivals and, most notably, a sculptor." All of his interests were related to painting or at least painting was used to show engineering plans, and architectural designs. One of the first works in Milan took him 12 years on and off to complete it. His work was time consuming but details were precisely