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leonardo da vinci


 * Leonardo is considered by many as the father of modern science.
 * He was one of the most acclaimed artists of the Renaissance (a period when the arts and sciences flourished).
 * He was born on April 15, 1452 in the small town of Vinci, in Tuscany (Toscana), near Florence (Italy).
 * He was the illegitimate child of Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a Florentine notary, and Caterina, a peasant.
 * His nationality is Italian.
 * Leonardo was raised by his single father.
 * He began his career as an apprentice to Florentine artist Andrea del Verrochio.
 * His nationality is Italian.
 * Leonardo was raised by his single father.
 * He began his career as an apprentice to Florentine artist Andrea del Verrochio.
 * Leonardo was an architect, musician, engineer, scientist and inventor.
 * He wrote most of his notes using mirror writing. Some believe that this was to keep his ideas secret.
 * Leonardo sketched the first parachute, first helicopter, first aeroplane, first tank, first repeating rifle, swinging bridge, paddleboat and the first motorcar.
 * Leonardo was very much interested in the possibility of human flight. He produced many studies of the flight of birds and plans for several flying machines.
 * He was also a sculptor, designer of costumes, mathematician and botanist.
 * He made maps of Europe.
 * He invented the scissors and hydraulic pumps.
 * He designed a movable bridge for the Duke of Milan.
 * He invented the bicycle 300 years before it appeared on the road.
 * Leonardo’s first solo painting, completed in 1478, was ‘Madonna and Child’.
 * In 1481 he left Florence for Milan to offer his service to the local duke.
 * In 1481 he began painting ‘Adoration of the Magi’, an unfinished work that reveals his technique of beginning with a dark painting surface and adding elements of light, unlike most painters of his time who started with outlined figures on a white surface.
 * In 1483 he started to paint the first version of the ‘Virgin’. He completed it in 1485.
 * He drew the plans of the first armored car in 1485.
 * In 1495 Leonardo made a clay model for the statue of Francesco Forza, and put it on display.
 * It took him about ten years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
 * Leonardo was famous for the way he used light in his portraits.
 * He painted ‘The Last Supper’