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    Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452 in Italy and apprenticed under an artist at age 14. He is considered one of the greatest painters of all time and created famous works like the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. The document provides details about his early life, career, and most famous works.

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    Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452 in Italy and apprenticed under an artist at age 14. He is considered one of the greatest painters of all time and created famous works like the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. The document provides details about his early life, career, and most famous works.

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    His Biography

    Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, in the territory of Florence. His full birth name was
    "Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci". He was the son of Piero di Antonio da Vinci, a Florentine notary,
    and Caterina, a peasant.
    Little is known about Leonardo's early life. He spent his first five years in the household of his
    father, grandparents and uncle, in the small town of Vinci. His father had married a sixteen-yearold girl named Albiera, who loved Leonardo but died young.
    At the age of 14, da Vinci began apprenticing with the artist Verrocchio. For six years, he learned a
    wide breadth of technical skills, including metalworking, leather arts, carpentry, drawing and
    sculpting. By the age of 20, he had qualified as a master artist in the Guild of Saint Luke and
    established his own workshop.
    His Works
    He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most
    talented person ever to have lived.
    It is primarily as a painter that Leonardo was and is renowned. Two of his works, the Mona Lisa
    and The Last Supper occupy unique positions as the most famous; most reproduced and most
    parodied portrait and religious painting of all time, their fame approached only by Michelangelo's
    Creation of Adam. Leonardo's drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also iconic. Perhaps fifteen of his
    paintings survive the small number due to his constant, and frequently disastrous,
    experimentation with new techniques, and his chronic procrastination. Nevertheless, these few
    works together with his notebooks, which contain drawings, scientific diagrams, and his thoughts
    on the nature of painting, comprise a contribution to later generations of artists only rivalled by
    that of his contemporary, Michelangelo.
    Mona Lisa
    This portrait was doubtless painted in Florence between 1503 and 1506. It is thought to be of Lisa
    Gherardini, wife of a Florentine cloth merchant named Francesco Del Giocondo. However,
    Leonardo seems to have taken the completed portrait to France rather than giving it to the person
    who commissioned it.
    Why I Choose Him?
    Because Da Vinci has been called a genius and the archetypal Renaissance man. His
    talents inarguably extended far beyond his artistic works. Like many leaders of
    Renaissance humanism, he did not see a divide between science and art.

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