Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was born on the 15th of April,
1452 in the Tuscan hill town, Vinci, in the region of Florence. Canvas Art. He was the
illegitimate son of the wealthy notary, Piero da Vinci and a young peasant
woman, Caterina. Leonardo had no surname
as such and was simply known as da Vinci which literally means of Vinci. His full birth name was "Leonardo di
ser Piero da Vinci", meaning "Leonardo, (son) of (Mes) ser Piero from
Vinci"
Very little is known about da Vinci’s early life although
there is much historical conjecture. We do know that he spent his first five
years with his mother in the hamlet of Anchiano before moving in with his
father’s extended family in 1457. About this time da Vinci’s father married a
young girl named Alberia who was sixteen. She absolutely adored the young Leonardo
but sadly was to die young a few years later.(canvas art)
Leonardo received
an informal education in mathematics, geometry, and Latin, but at this stage in
his life he showed little aptitude. At the age of fourteen, in 1466, Leonardo
was apprenticed to the artist Andrea di Cione, (known as Verrocchio) whose
workshop reputation was regarded as one of the finest in Florence. Amongst the
other famous artists associated or apprenticed to the workshop were Lorenzo di
Credi, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Botticelli and Perugino. During his time in the workshop da Vinci would
have been learned technical skills and theoretical training which would include
the artistic skills of drawing, modeling, painting and sculpting as well as
mechanics and carpentry, drafting, chemistry, metal working, metallurgy,
casting and leather work.(canvas art)
Such was da Vinci’s
skill with a paint brush that his master, Verrocchio, having allowed da Vinci
to collaborate on his Baptism of Christ, noted the superiority of da Vinci’s
work and as a result he put down his paint bush never to paint again.
At the age of
twenty in 1472 da Vinci qualified as a master in doctors of medicine, the guild
of artists and the Guild of St Luke. But
despite his father setting him up in his own workshop, da Vinci continued to
collaborate with Verrocchio. The earliest known work attributed to da Vinci is
a pen and ink drawing of the Arno valley circa August 1473.
Leonardo has
often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance, a man whose
unquenchable thirst for knowledge was only equaled only by his powers of
invention. Da Vinci was a painter, writer, inventor, engineer, mathematician,
scientist, Italian polymath, architect, sculptor, musician, botanist,
cartographer, geologist and anatomist.
Da Vinci is also accepted and recognized as the greatest painter of all
time and the most diversely talented person to have ever lived. Helen Gardiner,
the art historian, the scope and depth of his work and his interests were
without precedent.
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