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Leonardo Da Vinci__** His most famous paintings were the Last Supper, Mona Lisa,Madonna of the Rocks//,// and the Proportion of the Human Figure. He was a painter,engineer, sculpotor, inventor, and architect He was born in 1452 in a town near Venice He was the son of a wealthy Florentine notary and a peasant woman He dies in france on May 2, 1519 He produced a studies on loads of subjects, including nature, flying machines, geometry, mechanics, municipal construction, canals and architecture He thought the consipt of a parachute, helicopter, a bridge, machine guns, armored tanks, submarine, and a calculator Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, employed Leonardo da Vinci and permitted him to operate his own workshop, complete with apprentices He apprenticed to Andrea Verrocchio. He moved to Florence after the French took over Milan He was the best scientific mind of his time Leonardo's scientific and technical observations are found in his handwritten manuscripts, of which over 4000 pages survive, including the one pictured on the right Today, there are records of only few Da Vinci paintings, and 20 notebooks He was a well known master in the history of art, Leonard Da Vinci is renown by people all over the map His works are painted with great accuracy and detail that it is sometimes said that Da Vinci painted from the bones outward He had a total of 17 half sisters and brothers. He was so often compelled by new subjects, that he usually failed to finish what he started. His resulted in his completing only about six works in these 17 years He traveled for a year with Borgia's army as a military engineer From 1513 to 1516, he worked in Rome, maintaining a workshop and undertaking a variety of projects for the Pope Following the death of his patron Giuliano de' Medici in March of 1516, he was offered the title of Premier Painter and Engineer and Architect
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__Websites__ Leonardo Da Vinci's Life. Retrieved September 29, 2008, from http://www.davincilife.com/ Web site: http:

//(2006). DA VINCI - INVENTIONS AND ENGINEERING. Retrieved September 30, 2008, from http://www.leonardo-davinci.org/leonardo-da-vinci-inventions-engineering.php Web site: http://

Waggoner, B Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). Retrieved September 30, 2008, from http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/vinci.html Web site: http:

//__Book__ Brown, D (1998).// Leonardo Da Vinci//. New Haven & London: Getty Alan Program.

Leonardo Da Vinci was born in 1452 in a town near Venice and died on May 2, 1519. He is consider the mastermind of the 14 century. He was an engineer, sculptor, arichtect, and a painter.

His personal life started in Venice were he was born in 1452 and was the son of a wealthy florence man and a peasant woman. Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, employed Leonardo da Vinci and permitted him to operate his own workshop, and complete his apprenticship with Andrea Verrocchio. He moved to Florence after the French took over Milan. From 1513 to 1516, he worked in Rome, maintaining a workshop and undertaking a variety of projects for the Pope. He died on May 2, 1519.

His paintings include Last Supper, Mona Lisa, Madonna of the Rocks, and the Proportion of the Human Figure. They paintings that have survived are worth in the millions and are very rare. He brought a knew life like dimension that had not been seen before.

Has an architect and sculptor he was offered the title of Premier Painter, Engineer, and Architect on March of 1516. He drew a perfect city with canals and buildings. He thought of geometry and a calculator. Aa a architect you have to write notes but, this was tough because he was a lefty so he wrote in mirror form. Mirror form is when you write backwards so your hand does not drag but pulls. If you look at the writing through the mirror it looks normal.

As an inventor and engineer he had ideas that far ahead of his own time. His greatest envisioned was for man to fly. He drew the first helicopter and gliders. With the flying devices he thought of a parachute to save you if you fell. He could not construct these things because at the time the right resources were not available to him. He thought of an armored tank which would not be used until 400 years later. His drawling of the human body were very detailed and he showed how the body worked. He made many different mechanical machines and defensive structures. Also, he drew of machine guns and submarines. Most of the notes on his work have been kept and there are 20 of his notebooks in exstitence. One is owned by bill gates who bought it for 30 million dollars.

__Quotes form da vinci notebook__s

"He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss." "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." "The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things." "While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." "Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is doing something else." "I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have." ha this coming from the greatest artist ever.

Leorando Da Vinci will be forever none as the rensainnce man.