He used to draw pictures everywhere. If he got the time, he would indulge in drawing of pictures everywhere-either on sand or on paper. Once, he drew a picture of anaconda emitting fire from its mouth. Looking at this dangerous lively picture, his father, too, frightened a lot.
He was non- other than a world famous artists Leo Nardo Da Vinci, an Italian polymath, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor,architect, botanist, musician and writer. he was born on April 15, 1452, at the third hour of the night in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci of Florence as the illegitimate son of a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina. Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter, Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan. He later worked in Rome, bologna and Venice and spent his last years in France, at the home awarded him by Francis I.
Leonardo was and is renowned primarily as a painter. Two of his works, the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, are the most famous; most reproduced and most parodied portrait and religious painting of all time. Leonardo's drawing of the Vitruvian man is also regarded as a cultural icon. Perhaps fifteen of his paintings survive 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 raveled by that of his contemporary. Michelangelo. Along with the painting Leonardo conceptualized a helicopter, a tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator, the double hull. He outlined a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics. As a scientist, he greatly advanced the state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics.
Little is known about Leonardo's early life. He spent his first five years in the hamlet of Anchiano, and then lived in the household of his father, grandparents and uncle, Francesco, in the small town of Vinci. Leonardo's early life has been the subject of historical conjecture. In 1466, at the age of fourteen, Leonardo was apprenticed to one of the most successful artists of his day, Andrea di Cione, known as Verrocchio. Leonardo would have been exposed to a was range of technical skills and had the opportunity to learn drafting, chemistry, metallurgy, metal working, plaster casting, leather working, mechanics and carpentry as well as the artistic skills of drawing, painting, sculpting and modeling.
By 1472, at the age of twenty, Leonardo qualified as a master in the Guild of St Luke, the guild of artists and doctors of medicine. His earliest known dated work is a drawing in pen and ink of the Arno valley, drawn on august 5, 1473. In 1482 Leonardo created a silver lyre in the shape of a horse's head. He continued work in Milan between 1482 and 1499. He worked on many different projects for Ludovico.
Leonardo remained as painter, observer, scientist and inventor for the world. Leonardo was not only a prolific painter, but also a most prolific draftsman. As a successful artist, he was given permission to dissect human corpse at the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence and later at hospitals in Milan and Rome. He also studied and drew the anatomy of many other animals as well, dissecting cows, birds monkeys, bears, and frogs, and comparing in his drawings their anatomical structure with that of humans. He also made a number of studies of horses. During his lifetime Leonardo was valued as an engineer. In 1502, Leonardo produced a drawing of a single span 720- foot (240 m) bridge as part of a civil engineering project for Ottoman Sultan Beyazid II of Istanbul. For much of his life, Leonardo was fascinated by the phenomenon of flight, producing many studies of the flight of birds as well as plans for several flying machines, including a helicopter and a light hang glider.
Regarding his immortal art, his paintings have been regarded as the supreme masterpieces ever created. These Paintings are famous for a variety of qualities. All these qualities come together in his most famous painted works the Mona Lisa, the last Supper and the Virgin of the Rocks. But his most famous painting of the 1490s is the Last Super. The painting represents the last meal shared by Jesus with his disciples before his capture and death. Similarly, another most famous works created by Leonardo in the 1500s in the small portrait known as the Mona Lisa or "la Gioconda", the laughing one. the painting is famous, in particular, for the elusive smile on the woman's face, its mysterious quality brought about perhaps by the fact that the artist has subtly shadowed the corners of the mouth and eyes so that the exact nature of the smile cannot be determined. It really made him a prominent painter and artist of the world.
But at the age of 67, on May 2, 1519, Leonardo died at Clos Luce. The interest in Leonardo's genius has continued unabated; experts study and translate his writings, analyze his paintings using scientific techniques, argue over attributions and search for works which have been recorded but never found. regarding his all round genius, Hippolyte Taine wrote in 1866: "There may not be in the world an example of another genius so universal, so incapable of fulfillment, so full of yearning for the infinite, so naturally refined, so far ahead of his own century and the following centuries."
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