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Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy.

Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy. While growing up Leonardo was fascinated by animals and insects. Throughout his long life, he never stopped studying nature-plants, anatomy, the movement of water, the mechanics of flight-and applying his observations to his art.

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Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy.

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  1. Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy. • While growing up Leonardo was fascinated by animals and insects. Throughout his long life, he never stopped studying nature-plants, anatomy, the movement of water, the mechanics of flight-and applying his observations to his art.

  2. An Artist and a Scientist • Leonardo was an artist in the High Renaissance. A style of art developed in Italy in the late 15th, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on draftsmanship, centralized compositions, and the illusion of sculptural volume in painting.

  3. “We shall describe this mechanical structure of man by means of diagrams” • Leonardo raised the study of the “structure of man” to a science. He sought to illustrate the inner structure of man. His drawings were so accurate that they are still used to illustrate anatomy texts today.

  4. Animal Studies • Leonardo was often impatient with men, but he had a special fondness for animals. His lively sketches of cats are drawn with great affection. Look carefully for the cat that became a dragon.

  5. Man and God • At first Leonardo intended to learn about the human body so that he could paint it more realistically. But soon he began to hope that it would bring him to the answer to the riddle of creation.

  6. Anatomical Study • Leonardo often watched doctors perform autopsies so that he could study human anatomy. He later began dissections on his own and carefully sketched everything that he saw.

  7. The Inventor • Leonardo modeled his flying machines after his studies of bird wings. And though he failed at actually taking air, his careful and inventive researches in aerodynamics made him a forerunner of modern flight.

  8. Mona Lisa • Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa on a piece of pine wood in the year 1506. Never in the history of Art has one painting been so admired. This is due largely to the enigmatic smile, which has caused much speculation. Some people have even suggested that it is a self-portrait.

  9. The Last Supper • Considered by many to be Leonardo’s greatest painting, The Last Supper employs all of his anatomical work in the expressions of Christ and the Apostles.

  10. The Codes • Leonardo wrote in Italian using a special kind of shorthand that he invented himself. People who study his notebooks have long been puzzled by something else, however. He usually used "mirror writing," starting at the right side of the page and moving to the left. Only when he was writing something intended for other people did he write in the normal direction.

  11. An Artistic and Scientific Search for the True Picture of Man and his Universe • "Leonardo da Vinci was like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the others were all still asleep" -Sigmund Freud 

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