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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1519 - May 2 1452, Old Style) was a scholar of Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, expert botanist and writer, a genius perhaps more than any other figure embody the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo is often called a Renaissance man par excellence, a man "curiosity" and describes "vigorously inventive imagination." He is widely regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time and arguably the most talented people who never otherwise. According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests is unprecedented and "the mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man, a. Mysterious and distant" Roscius Marco pointed out, however, that if there is much speculation about Leonardo, the prospects a lot of logic, not a mystery, and empirical methods have been used, which is not common in his time.

Born notary Piero da Vinci, and the peasant woman, Caterina, at Vinci in Florence, Leonardo was educated in the study of the famous Florentine painter, Verrocchio. Most of the early life to serve Ludovico il Moro in Milan was inaugurated. He later worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice and spent his last years in France, the house was given to Francis

Leonardo and is best known as an artist. Among his works, the Mona Lisa the most famous and most parodied portrait and religious painting reproduced above all the sacraments of the time came to fame with his creation of Adam Michelangelo alone. Drawing the Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci as a cultural icon is, in articles as diverse as the euro, the benefits and shirt set. Perhaps fifteen paintings survive, because a small amount of experimentation, constant and often disastrous with new techniques and pushing chronic. But these works contain a few, along with their notebooks, drawings, scientific diagrams, and his thoughts about the nature of art, contribution to the next generation of artists, in accordance with the contemporary, Michelangelo.

Leonardo is famous for its technological ingenuity worship. Designed by helicopter, tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator, the double hull and have a basic theory of plate tectonics. Relatively few pictures have been built or to be achieved in the course of his life, but some smaller inventions, such as automatic winding machine for testing and tensile strength of the wire into the world of unexpected manufacturing. Made important discoveries in the fields of anatomy, civil engineering, optics and hydrodynamics has not published the results and have no direct influence on later science.

Childhood, 1452–1466

Leonardo House, children Anchiano first known drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, Arno Valley (1473), Leonardo Uffizi was born April 15, 1452 (old style), "hour-third of the night" in the Tuscan town of Vinci Hill, the lower valley of the Arno River in the Republic Medici rule in Florence. He was the son of a wedding knife in Antonio Piero da Vinci, wealthy Florentine notary Fruosino, legal, and Caterina, a farmer. Leonardo has a name not in the modern sense of the word, "Da Vinci", which means "from Vinci" is his birth name "Leonardo in ser Piero da Vinci," means "to Leonardo, (child) (month) Be Piero da Vinci . "wrote the name of" becoming, "said the father of Leonardo da Vinci was a gentleman.

Little is known about Leonardo's early life. He spent his first five years in the village of Anchiano at his mother's house after 1457 lived in the house of his father, grandfather and uncle, Francis, in the small town of Vinci. His father was sixteen Albiera who loved Leonardo but died young, and married. Leonardo sixteen years old when his father remarried at the age of twenty years, Frances Lanfredini. It was not until he married, third and fourth Ser Piero made heirs.

Leonardo received a formal education in Latin, geometry and mathematics. Later in life, Leonardo took only two minor incidents. One of them, he was considered a sign of how the kite fell from the sky and hovered over the cradle, and his tail feather brush. The second came in the investigation into the mountains. He found a cave and they fear that the great monster might lurk, and interesting curiosity to find out what's inside.

Early Life of Leonardo da Vinci is the subject of historical conjecture. Vasari, the biographer of artists from the 16th century, tells the story of the Renaissance, as a farmer has a round plate and demands that Ser Piero wrote for himself. Leonardo said, painting a fire breathing monster, how terrible that Ser Piero sold it to a Florentine art dealer, Duke of Milan had been sold. Meanwhile, profit, Ser Piero bought a sign with an arrow through the heart with the farmers to give decorated.