Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo DA Vinci an Italian of unlimited talent and very famous scientist of the world. He was a leading engineer of his time and designed bridges, canals, forts, machines of and buildings of the highest quality. Moreover, though he had not studied military since, he made unique designs of lethal weaponry which consolidated the strength of the Army. As a young boy, Leonardo showed an early talent for art. He started drawing pictures with pen and pencil that amazed his father who proudly showed his son's work to his friends who praised Leonardo's exceptional skill.

Leonardo Da Vinci was born on 15 April 1452 at Anchiano in Italy. He was first child of Mr. Ser Pireo and Catarina. His father admitted at a school in Vinci where got elementary schooling. In this time Leonardo take interest in mathematics and Latin along with other subjects. He studied in Vince until 1466. At the age of 14 Leonardo moved to Florence. In Florence, Leonardo took paintings quit seriously. When Verrocchio saw Leonardo's paintings who was then a noted painter of Italy. He worked on applying new tricks and techniques for paintings. We can see in most of early paintings of Leonardo he had used oil which reflected his genius. 5Th August 1473 can be seen in which Leonardo had used pen and in for drawing a valley from which a river is meandering through.
Verrocchio like a true master of Leonardo, he always encouraged and helped his pulis and had already foreseen the great artist. At the age of 24, in 1476 he designs of machines which could be used for different purpose in peace or war. During this time he painted pictures of the highest quality, made several famous paintiopened his owe workshop and began painting in earnest. His hard work was worth while as he became famous as a great artist and also there was monetary gain. Leonardo was also taking serious interest in field of machines and various equipment used for a variety of purposes. Apart from painting in making several ngs and sculptures, two of the world famous paintings were "The last supper" (1498) and "virgin of the Rocks" (1494). While working Leonardo DA Vinci in Milan from 1482-1499.

In 1503 Leonardo had started working on the world famous painting of Mona Lisa. It is wildly believe that Leonardo had reached the pinnacle of his talent as an artist in the portrait of the Mona Lisa. Leonardo was worked with doctor Mecantonio Della Torre at Santa maria Nuovo in Florance. In that he published a theoretical work on anatomy, he made more than 200 drawings including of the human skeleton and backhoe for this book. Due to whatever reasons this book could only be published in 1580, long after Leonardo's death. Leonardo encouraged by his success with the glider he designs an armored tank in 1502.e designs for different warfare machines and weapons such as the machine gun, the armored tank submarines, cluster bombs etc. more over he designed a 200m long bridge for sultan Brazil the second of Constantinople. Though this bridge wasn't built at the time, about 500 years later in 2001 a small bridge based on Leonardo's design was constructed in Norway. He also planned to create solar power for use in industry by using concave mirrors. Leonardo used mirror writing through out his life as a secret sort of code that no-one else could decipher.

Many people think that Leonardo moved from painting to the scientific study of the human anatomy and machines, but the truth is that Leonardo had always been very fascinated by machines and how they preformed there different functions since he was a young boy. It was in his nature that after he had make a proper study of various machines he would either improve them, or make drastic change in their shape, size and function. 2nd may 1519, at the age of 67 Leonardo was died, at Clos Luce in France. It has been more than five hundred years since Leonardo died and we have never seen another person who possessed such genius.

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