Life_Of_A_Genius

Life Of A Genius Leonardo da Vinci: this name has become legendary, a synonym for greatness and for universal genius. And no wonder, for the man who bore it was proficient in almost every area of intellectual and cultural endeavor – in mathematics and geometry, in physics, engineering, anatomy, geology, botany, and geography; in sculpture, architecture, and not the least in painting. The great genius was born in 1452 in the small village of Anchiano, the illegitimate son of the Florentine notary Piero da Vinci and Caterina, a peasant woman. In about 1469, as a youth of seventeen or so, Leonardo demonstrated a talent for drawing and design. Recognizing these achievements, Piero persuaded his friend Andrea del Verrocchio to accept his son as an apprentice in what was then one of the foremost studios in Italy. Leonardo’s artistic education was the one available to all of Verrocchio’s young apprentices" grinding and mixing pigments, learning geometry and the chemistry of colors, preparing panels to receive paintings itself, and working clay and casting bronze into finished sculptures. Leonardo began his training directly in the major arts of painting and sculpture. In this respect, he was relatively unusual among the artist with whom he was associated during his years as milan, leonardo, years, painting, st, one, life, great, court, in, time, sculpture, rome, returned, notebooks, madonna, leonardo’s, last, genius, france, florence, engineering, cloux, began, artist, young, xii, work, verrocchio’s, various, variety, supper, spent, son, sforza, served