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    Leonardo Da Vinci was an Italian polymath born in 1452 in Florence, Italy. He was a painter, architect, inventor, and student of science who epitomized the Renaissance man for his talents across many disciplines. Da Vinci is considered one of the most intelligent and talented people ever, best known for his paintings The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. As an inventor, he conceived ideas for flying machines, the bicycle, and a helicopter based on his studies of nature and science. He filled notebooks with inventions, observations, and theories but some concepts were difficult to interpret. Da Vinci received little formal education but showed artistic talent from a young age.

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    Leonardo Da Vinci was an Italian polymath born in 1452 in Florence, Italy. He was a painter, architect, inventor, and student of science who epitomized the Renaissance man for his talents across many disciplines. Da Vinci is considered one of the most intelligent and talented people ever, best known for his paintings The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. As an inventor, he conceived ideas for flying machines, the bicycle, and a helicopter based on his studies of nature and science. He filled notebooks with inventions, observations, and theories but some concepts were difficult to interpret. Da Vinci received little formal education but showed artistic talent from a young age.

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    Leonardo Da Vinci was an Italian polymath born in 1452 in Florence, Italy. He was a painter, architect, inventor, and student of science who epitomized the Renaissance man for his talents across many disciplines. Da Vinci is considered one of the most intelligent and talented people ever, best known for his paintings The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. As an inventor, he conceived ideas for flying machines, the bicycle, and a helicopter based on his studies of nature and science. He filled notebooks with inventions, observations, and theories but some concepts were difficult to interpret. Da Vinci received little formal education but showed artistic talent from a young age.

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    Biography of Leonardo Da Vinci

    Cesar Salazar Nieto


    American School Way
    Oral Presentation
    17 de Mayo de 2019

    Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 15, in 1452, in Republic of Florence, Italy. He was a painter, architect,
    inventor, and student of all things scientific. His natural genius crossed so many disciplines that he epitomized the
    term “Renaissance man.” He focused on the laws of sciences and nature early in his life. Leonardo is considered by many
    to be one of the most talented and intelligent people of all time. Today he remains best known for his art, including
    two paintings that remain among the most famous and admired world, The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. The art
    of Da Vinci was connected with science and nature. He filled dozens of secret notebooks with invents, observations
    and theories about pursuits from aeronautics to anatomy. But the concepts expressed in his notebooks were often
    difficult of interpret. Also he is remembered for inventions as the bicycle, the helicopter and an airplane based on the
    physiology and flying capability of a bat. Da Vinci’s parents weren’t married, and his mother, Caterina, a peasant,
    wed another man while da Vinci was very young and began a new family. When Leonardo Da vinci was five year old,
    he lived with his father in a estate. Da Vinci received no formal education beyond basic reading, writing and math,
    but his father appreciated his artistic talent and apprenticed him at around age 15 in sculpting and painting in the
    school Andrea del Verronchio, in Florence. A decade later da Vinci refined his painting and sculpting techniques and
    trained in mechanical arts. Da vinci paitend “The Last Supper” during his time in milan, betwwen 1495 and 1498.
    This painting represent the passover dinner between Jesuscrisht and his Apostles.

    Figura 1: The Last Supper

    When Milan was invaded by the French in 1499, Da vinci and his family escaped to Florence. There, He painted a
    serie of portraits that included “The Mona Lisa” between 1503 and 1506, is the best know painting in the world, the
    identity of the woman behind that mysterious smile is still disputed.

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    Figura 2: The Mona Lisa

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