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Leonardo Da Vinci And The Renaissance Period

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Leonardo Da Vinci once said,” the painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies everything placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.” Who would have thought that this rural boy would become one of the world’s greatest mind and artist? Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 14, 1452 in the town of Vinci near Florence Italy. He lived during the fifteenth century, a period when the people of Europe were becoming interested in art that was known as the Renaissance period (1). Leonardo was well renowned for many other occupations such as a sculpture, architect, engineer, inventor and scientist. However, some of his most famous and brilliant work are from his paintings. Leonardo used what he learned from nature and science to make his paintings look real. He drew and took many notes of what he observed. His notes were written backwards, probably because he didn 't want people to read about his discoveries and observations. In order to read Leonardo 's notes, one has to hold them up to a mirror. Leonardo got his start as an artist around 1469, when his father apprenticed him to the fabled workshop of Verocchio. Verocchio 's specialty was perspective, which artists had only recently begun to get used to, and Leonardo quickly mastered its challenges. In fact, Leonardo quickly surpassed Verocchio, and by the time he was in his early twenties he was unquestionably famous (1) During his life time, Leonardo

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