Leonardo da Vinci Biography
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci lived between 1452 and 1519.
This great Italian artist was born on 15th April, 1452 in Tuscan, Vinci. Little is known about his childhood. His later days passed in Rome. Highly documented as a exceptional man - with skills of a scientist, inventor, painter, biologist, engineer, zoologist, geologist and a spectacular human; his fame reached the point of pinnacle as an artist.
He was an Italian scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer.
Leonardo da Vinci was the illegitimate son of a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina. He was born in Vinci in the region of Florence.
Much of his earlier working life was in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan. He also worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice and France.
Leonardo's two paintings, the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, are the most famous paintings in the world. Leonardo's Vitruvian Man drawing is a cultural icon which is reproduced on on Euro.His other drawings like John the Baptist, the Virgin and the child with St. Anne are classic works of his. His scientific drawings of human skeleton, vascular system, sex organs etc. are precious gifts.
His engineering gift of the Golden Horn Bridge is a marvelous bridge. A complete encyclopedia can be printed about the achievements of this incredible Italian pearl. He has not only made Milan proud but his marvelous work and genius skills has made the world know much more than it would have ever known.
