Leonardo da Vinci a truly great designer
Leonardo da Vinci a man of true art and an inventor of the future and was given the nick name ‘The Renaissance man’. Leonardo was born in a small Italian town ‘Vinci’ on the 15th of April 1452. As a boy he grew up wandering of the finer things in life, like lizards and other dead animals. He also was showing potential as an engineer as we call them today, as he explored with physics on a high level for children at the same age as himself. Traditional painting was one of the many things he was exposed to as a young child by his parents. As a grown man he moved to Florence with his father after the death of his grandfather.
As a young man in Florence he was thought the outlines of art and painting by Andrea del Verrocchio, a well known painter of the Renaissances. Leonardo used his observational skills to better understand how nature worked and applied it to his paintings, this had a huge influence on the realism of his paintings. Today he is one of the most famous artists ever lived. ‘The Last Supper’ and the ‘Mona Lisa’ is his to most well known works of art and is priceless today. As a artist he was the first to study the human body, the physical parts of it, as a reference to
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Some of these notebooks still exist today, the ‘Codex Leicester’ the most famous one contains seventy-two pages of drawings and mirror written text by Leonardo da Vinci himself. Drawings and notes on the Vitruvian Man can also be found found in the ‘Codex Leicester’ notebook also written in mirror text. The Leicester family owned this notebook for 263 years until it was purchased by Armand Hummer in 1980. Fourteen years later on the 11th of November 1994 Bill Gates bought the notebook for a record price of 30,802,500 US Dollars. It is constantly available for viewing at different museums over the