Delving into My Life

Hello there, I am Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci or better known as just Leonardo da Vinci. Some people know me for being an expert painter, sculptor, architect, musician while others know me as a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, and writer. Nonetheless, I am most widely known for my art and how it is seen through other people’s views. Moreover, I was born on April 12, 1452 in Florence Italy from a wealthy father named Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci and a lower class, peasant mother named Caternia. I had to live with seventeen siblings, until later on when I was older and was able to work on my own.

In my early years, I was already a talented, little boy because I was even able to help my dad create a painting on a shield that was sold and handed down to the powerful Duke of Milan which ended up earning a profit for us. Then, when I was fourteen, I was proudly an apprentice to Verrocchio’s workshop and in there were also other famous painters. During my time there, I had a chance to learn theoretical ideas and skills that helped me later on in life. As I grew up and became more and more wise, I also had the ability to create a silver lyre which shows how creative and constructive my mind was. Later on, I had to work for Cesare Borgia, Pope Alexander V’s son, as a military architect and engineer which was when I knew I was capable of creating distinct maps.

In 1503 as part of the Guild of St. Luke, I took part in relocating Michelangelo’s statue of David even when I felt the loathsome feeling within me. Furthermore, I was a sculptor and painter for the Duke of Milan and produced many studies in inventions and scientific thoughts. When I was finally creating my most distinguished painting, The Last Supper, it was to bring the High Renaissance the idealization of nature and the realistic truth of everything. This painting led to multiple controversies between different religions in the Renaissance. My skill of discovering how nature functioned was to dissect the human body to see more definitely how everything worked. Then, my other notable painting was Mona Lisa, and this painting aroused many to interpret it in contrasting ways, which shows my absolute brilliance in angles of artistic drawings because of the mysterious smile on her face.

During the Scientific Revolution, I summarized my opinion on mathematical science in that "proportion is not only found in numbers and measurements but also in sounds, weight, times, positions, and in whatsoever power they may be". Therefore, I was able to even think like the other elite intellectuals. I am a left-handed writer, so i wrote in a mirror techniques. Furthermore, my crafty wits allowed me to create inventions such as the soaring machines models which enhanced to later discoveries in actual flying. Most importantly, despite the certain antagonists who oppose my greatness, I am a man honored, admired, and thanked in my time due to the impacts and influences that I have done.   

Sources:
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