Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) by profession he was an inventor, architect and a painter, and was also very much interested in the scientific aspect and background of things around him.
He is also called as the Renaissance man due to the amount of work he has done that in numerous disciplines. Till date he is known as one of the greatest artist of all time and is well known for his works like but the ones which made it through all these years and has become a part of the human history and existence, Mona Lisa and The Last Supper are the two most admired, well-known and the most famous paintings of all time. Da Vinci’s creations, work and the whole work ideology was hugely connected and inspired by nature and science. Though he was self – taught and self – educated almost 99% of his works were above the level of any other counterpart at the time. He did a lot of innovations, theories etc. of each and every kind. But the contemporaries mostly disagreed or were against his work etc.
LEONARDO DA VINCI: HIS EARLY LIFE AND TRAINING
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His famous surname was after his father and which is related to the town “Vinci” because of which he is associate with. In the beginning he was just only known as Leonardo or sometimes as Il Florentine, because of the fact that he lived near Florence and was very well known and later on became famous as an inventor, philosopher, thinker but the most important of all as an artist. He was born to the parents Father was a notary, Piero da Vinci and to a peasant mother, Caterina. While da Vinci was in his tender age, his mother later on married another man and where she began her new family. Da Vinci was really inspired by his uncle, to whom he was really close and who helped his father raising him. Da Vinci and his uncle had one thing in common which da Vinci inherited from him i.e. appreciation for