Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

Botanist

Leonardo Di progress of Peru da Vinci was objectively belongs to the Renaissance, where he was a painter, engineer, botanist, world maps, geology, musician, sculptor, architect and scientist Italy Gladiator.

Birth: April 15, 1452, Vinci, Tuscany, Italy

Death: May 2, 1519, Amboise, France

Leonardo Di progress of Peru da Vinci (15 April 1452-2 May 1519) was objectively it belongs to the Renaissance, where he was a painter, engineer, botanist, world maps, geology, musician, sculptor, architect and scientist Italy Gladiator.

And it is considered one of the greatest painters of the human, a man with "unbridled curiosity" and his "creative imagination feverish" - as described by some.

:His birth

Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452, on a farm, about 3 kilometers from the city between Ongjiano and Valtugnano.

Leonardo was the eldest son of a notary fifth and twenty-called secret Piero da Vinci, to a wealthy family, and his mother from a poor layer called Catherine, as a result of an illicit relationship between the parents.

And baptized near the Church of the Holy Cross (Santa Croce), but the father and mother did not attend, because they were not married.

The illegitimate son of a rich family notary His father and mother divorced from her husband cultivation after the birth of her baby shortly made him missing mother tenderness in his life.

Sir Peru was already working in Florence in 1462 AD, and returned with his family and with little Leonardo.

:Educated

It is believed that Leonardo stayed in the countryside in the grandparents' home, where he received his education which was spotty, under the auspices of his grandfather and his uncle Antonio and Piero Francesco and the priest who baptized.

The boy learning to write from the left and vice versa (upside down) correspondingly very regular writing.

:His arrival in Florence the capital of art

Grandfather died, aged six and ninety-year-old in the year 1468 AD, and the transfer of his inheritance to "Leonardo" and to Grandma Lucia, father and Peru to the new wife Francesca Anfredeny father and uncles to Francesco and Alessandra.

In the following year, the family set up a parent who became documented along with the family of his uncle Francesco, who joined the art of silk in Florence's house, which was demolished in the sixteenth century and is currently in Scenioraa Gundy Street next to the field.

In the middle of the fourteenth century his family settled in Florence and Leonardo joined the schools of Florence, where he received what can best be provided by this wonderful city of Sciences and Arts (Florence was the main center for science and art within Italy).

Leonardo was scoring a prestigious social status dramatically and impressively, it was particularly well spoken and can play with skill in addition to the superb ability to persuasion.

About the year 1466, he joined Leonardo in the operator of Art owned by Andrea del Verrocchio, who was an artist of that era in painting and sculpture, which enabled Leonardo to identify closely on this profession and its activities from drawing to sculpture.

In 1472 he became a member of the Florence guide for painters

In 1478 AD was able Leonardo independence this profession and became a teacher in itself.

His first work was a fresco of the Church of the old palace or as called in Italian "Balazw Vecchio" that have not been completed.

The first important work was the panel Maggie reverence it started the year 1481 AD and left without end, which was the monastery of the Sisters of St. Donato Skopitho Florence.

From January 1474 to the autumn of 1478 Leonardo works it was not known, and it was this silence strange especially that profession Leonardo had been considered in previous years directly subject to the end supported by the father Sree Thi influence which kept him at least until the year 1480 and so was able to help him get commission.

:Accused of homosexuality

In the eighth of April 1476 gave an anonymous record of the night to officers and monasteries against certain people, including Leonardo on charges of homosexuality practiced with Jacob Saltarilly-old 17-year-old resident of Vakereecha Street (next to Scenioraa) field.

Although it was there in that era in Florence some tolerance toward homosexuality, but that the death of these cases were very strict:-fold neutered sodomy adults and distortion of the foot or hand for young people.

In addition to Leonardo, was among the other defendants jeweler Bartolombody Pascueno and Khayat Pacino resident in Chimatury Street in Oursanmichely especially Leonardo Tornabuoni, who was wearing a candied "black" (the most expensive cloth, which belonged to high society). In fact, the young heir of the relevant family extremely powerful Medici family.

Similar complaints were also made in June of the same year on charges of involvement Tornabuoni which will be in favor of the accused where the complaint filed in the archive status "was released all the accused unless there are any other complaints about this subject, and showed the complaint that Leonardo was left in Operator Verokio at that time. "

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