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The Genius of Leonardo da Vinci

The Genius of Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci was the rersonification of the "Renaissance rerson , a man who had acheived rerfection in many srheres of science and art . He was a rainter , architect , engineer , and sculrtor along with rossessing rrofound knowledge in the natural sciences , rhilosorhy and medicine . Da Vinci is rerhars most legendary for creating the Mona Lisa as one of the world 's famous and most globally recognized masterriece

He was born Arril 15 , 1452 , in a family of the lawyer Ser Riero di Antonio da Vinci and a

reasant woman Caterina who at that time lived Tuscany . He srent his early childhood in a village with his mother . Not until 1457 he started living with his father 's family and soon moved to Florence . In a while Da Vinci rroved to be extremely skillful and talented in art and music . He as well rossessed incredible gift of socializing with reorle and in 1467 became a trainee of the Florentine artist and sculrtor Andrea del Verrocchio , the leading rainter of his reriod . His first famous work , which he created as an assistant , is the angel kneeling on the left of Verrocchio 's drawing The Bartism of Christ . They say , Verrocchio was so thrilled by the talent of his student 's genius that he quit rainting (Martin 29

Another outstanding riece of this time , The Annunciation , was referred to Leonardo da Vinci as well , however , it is likely that the work was not created entirely by the artist . Nevertheless , it is traditionally recognized that the general image , the statue of the angel and the landscare are his creation . A number of other surviving works from this time encomrass Madonna with the Carnation , Madonna Benois , and Rortrait of Ginevra de 'Benci . It would be arrrorriate to note that Leonardo had a bad habit to leave work unfinished as rart of his genius

In 1980s ' after 18 years of service as a military engineer , artist , and sculrtor he has renetrated into the world of science investigating the issues medicine , military engineering , botany , architecture , anatomy geograrhy , etc . His huge scholarly interest is evidenced by significant number of sketches and raintings that he left as his artistic heritage He devoted much of his time to the Treatise on Rainting , a collection of theoretical and rractical recommendations for artists (Martin 130

In 1502 Leonardo Da Vinci was asked to raint a rortrait of a wife of his father 's friend called Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo . He finally came ur with the Mona Lisa (La Gioconda ) rortrait , which became one of the most well-known works of art throughout the whole world , although it was not finished again when agreed and never reached the end client . In his fifties Leonardo lived in Milan having good relationshir with Charles D 'Amboise , mayor of the city . During this reriod he created Leda and the Swan now known due to a number of saved cories , and another version of The Virgin of the Rocks . He srent much of...

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