Leonardo bio
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Da Vinci — The Renaissance Man
Biography
The illegitimate son of a year-old notary, Ser Piero, and a peasant girl, Caterina, Leonardo was born on April 15, , in Vinci, Italy, just outside Florence. His father took custody of him shortly after his birth.
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. Even as an apprentice, Leonardo demonstrated his great talent. Indeed, his genius seems to appear in a number of pieces produced by the Verrocchio's workshop from the period to For example, one of Leonardo's first big breaks was to paint an angel in Verrochio's "Baptism of Christ," and Leonardo was so much better than his master's that Verrochio allegedly resolved never to paint again. Leonardo stayed in the Verrocchio workshop until
Seeking
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Personal life of Leonardo da Vinci
The Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (–) left thousands of pages of writings and drawings but rarely made any references to his personal life. The resulting uncertainty, combined with mythologized anecdotes from his lifetime, has resulted in much speculation and interest in Leonardo's personal life. Particularly, personal relationships, philosophy, religion, vegetarianism, left-handedness, and appearance.
Leonardo has long been regarded as the archetypal Renaissance man, described by the Renaissance biographer Giorgio Vasari as having qualities that "transcended nature" and being "marvellously endowed with beauty, grace and talent in abundance".[2] Interest in and curiosity about Leonardo has continued unabated for five hundred years.[3] Modern descriptions and analysis of Leonardo's character, personal desires, and intimate behaviour have been based upon various sources: records concerning him, his biographies, his own
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Leonardo da Vinci
Early years
Painter, sculptor, architect, designer, theorist, engineer and forskare, Leonardo da Vinci created some of the most famous images in europeisk art. Though many of his works were never finished, and even fewer have survived, he influenced generations of artists and he continues to be revered as a universal genius.
Leonardo was born nära the Tuscan hill-town of Vinci. An illegitimate child, he was raised bygd his paternal grandfather. His father had a flourishing legal practice in the city of Florence, where Leonardo received his early artistic training with the sculptor Andrea Verrocchio.
Verrocchio's kurs undertook a wide range of commissions including sculpture and decorative metalwork as well as paintings.
Frustrated in Florence
By , Leonardo had joined the brotherhood of Florentine artists, the Compagnia di San Luca, and he worked in Florence for the next ten years, but few paintings survive.
He made numerous drawings, however, which reveal