Leonardo da Vinci Biography

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 and died on May 2, 1519. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, better known as Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo, the illegitimate son of a Florentine notary and a local peasant woman, was born before modern naming conventions developed in Europe; his name "Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci", simply means "Leonardo, son of [Mes]ser Piero, from Vinci". Leonardo signed his works "Leonardo" or "Io, Leonardo" ("I, Leonardo"). Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer from Italy. Leonardo da Vinci Biography has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, who "unquenchable curiosity" and "rush inventive imagination".

However, Leonardo da Vinci was widely known worldwide as one of the greatest painters of all time. With outstanding work, one of them is painting Mona Lisa.

So many talents possessed by Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo became a master in the field more than any other since or before him. Most geniuses such as Albert Einstein, William Shakespeare or Alfred Hitchcock who master only in one field. However, Leonardo da Vinci is different. No matter the subject beyond his grasp, once he began the meticulous surgery. This is partly because he more than anyone else in his day, did not see the subject disjointed from one another, especially the way we tend to today. For her, art and science inherent in various forms in which one of his findings tend to indicate. The relationship between Leonardo Da Vinci and science were also present in one of his painted works.

As a result of an infinite nature, he explored and mastered subjects as diverse as surgical anatomy, cartography, archeology and engineering to botany while also getting the main livelihood of creating painted works such as painting the Last Supper (to just name a few!). The first known biography of Leonardo was published in 1550, by Giorgio Vasari in his Vite de' piu eccelenti architettori, pittori e scultori italiani ("The lives of the most excellent Italian architects, painters and sculptors"). Most of the information collected by Vasari was from first-hand accounts of Leonardo's contemporaries (Vasair was only a child when Leonardo died), and it remains the first reference in studying Leonardo's life.

Leonardo da Vinci is best remembered as the painter of the Mona Lisa (1503-1506) and The Last Supper (1495). Leonardo da Vinci receive a fresh explosion of public interest in 2003 with the publication of The Da Vinci Code, best-selling thriller writer Dan Brown's work.