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Biography of Leonardo da Vinci--- Source: wikipediaLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci pronounced [leoˈnardo da ˈvintʃi] in Italian. Da Vinci Leonardo was born 15 April 1452 and died 1519. Born in: Vinci (Florentine province, Tuscany, Italy). Died in: Amboise (Indre-et-Loire, France). He was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. |
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Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination". He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.
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da Vinci Leonardo biography: Childhood, 1452–1466Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452 (Old Style), "at the third hour of the night in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, in the lower valley of the Arno River in the territory of the Medici-ruled Republic of Florence. Leonardo's father was a gentleman. Little is known about Leonardo's early life. He spent his first five years in the hamlet of Anchiano in the home of his mother, then from 1457 he lived in the household of his father, grandparents and uncle, Francesco, in the small town of Vinci. His mother died young. When Leonardo was sixteen his father married again. But we know that Leonardo received an informal education in Latin, geometry and mathematics. |
Leonardo's childhood home in Anchiano, Republic of Florence. |
da Vinci biography: Verrocchio's workshop, 1466–1476
In 1466, at the age of fourteen, Leonardo was apprenticed to the artist Andrea di Cione, known as Verrocchio, whose workshop was "one of the finest in Florence". Other famous painters apprenticed or associated with the workshop include
Domenico Ghirlandaio,
Perugino, Botticelli, and Lorenzo di Credi.
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biography on Leonardo da Vinci: Old age, 1513–19
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Clos Lucé in France, where Leonardo died on May 2, 1519 |
Leonardo died at Clos Lucé, on May 2, 1519. Francis I had become a close friend. Vasari records that the king held Leonardo's head in his arms as he died, although this story, beloved by the French and portrayed in romantic paintings by Ingres, Ménageot and other French artists, as well as by Angelica Kauffmann, may be legend rather than fact.
Some 20 years after Leonardo's death, Francis was reported by the goldsmith and sculptor Benevenuto Cellini as saying: "There had never been another man born in the world who knew as much as Leonardo, not so much about painting, sculpture and architecture, as that he was a very great philosopher." |