da Vinci, Leonardo (1452-1519), was an Italian Renaissance artist and inventor, whose genius is said to embody the Renaissance ideal. da Vinci is most famously known as a painter, with such works as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, as well as his drawing of the Vitruvian Man. As an inventor he conceptualised such things as the helicopter and a calculator, however very few of his designs were ever constructed.
Lionardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born in Vinci, Italy, on April 15, 1452, to father Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a Florentine legal notary, and Caterina, a peasant girl.
Leonardo spent his first five years living with his mother in the hamlet of Anchiano, before moving to Vinci to live with his father. Little is known about Leonardo's early education, but he did receive an informal education in Latin, geometry and mathematics.
At the age of fourteen, Leonardo was apprenticed to the renowned Florentine painter, Andrea di Cione, known as Verrocchio. By the time he was 20 years old, Leonardo qualified as a master in the Guild of St Luke.
Leonardo received his first two independent commissions when he was 24 years old. The first was to paint an altarpiece for the Chapel of St Bernard in the Palazzo Vecchio, and second was for his work, The Adoration of the Magi, commissioned for the Monks of San Donato a Scopeto. However Leonardo did not finish either painting.
When Leonardo was thirty years old, he created a silver lyre in the shape of a horse's head. Upon seeing it, Lorenzo de' Medici, the ruler of the Florentine Republic, sent Leonardo to Milan to offer it as a gift to Ludovico il Moro, Duke of Milan, in the hopes to secure peace between the two states.
Leonardo worked in Milan until the start of the Second Italian War, when he fled to Venice. It was his time spent in Milan, where arguably, some of his greatest works where created.
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci passed away on May 2, 1519, at the age of 67, at Clos Lucé in Amboise, France. His remains are buried in the Monastery of St. Florentine in Amboise, France.
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