DA VINCIS

BIO
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Leonardo da Vincis
brief
Born on April 15, 1452
He was an Italian
polymath whose areas of
interest included
invention, painting,
sculpting, architecture,
science, music,
mathematics,
engineering, literature,
anatomy, geology,
astronomy, botany,
writing, history, and
cartography.

His career
Leonardo da Vinci was a leading artist
and intellectual of the Italian
Renaissance who's known for his
enduring works "The Last Supper" and
"Mona Lisa.Da Vinci also created
architectural plans for churches and
designed a mechanical theatrical set for
a festival in honor of a family wedding.
For much of his career, da Vinci
depended on the kindness of patrons.
He spent years being attached to one
royal court or another.

This life
Leonardo da Vincis life
He was born on april 15, 1452 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 received an informal education in Latin, geometry and
mathematics.
Da Vinci had a complicated family life. He was the illegitimate son of Ser
Piero da Vinci and a local woman named Caterina.

He has been variously called the father of paleontology, ichnology, and

architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all
time.[1] Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute,
helicopter and tank,[2][3][4] his genius epitomized the Renaissance
humanist ideal. His death was may 2, 1519 in France.

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