Leonardo Da Vinci - Lifetime

Leonardo da Vinci
1452-1519


            Leonardo da Vinci was a Royal Library of Turin his birth name was Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, his was   born in April 15, 1452 Vinici, Italy,   near Florence.
And he died May 2nd, 1519 (at the age of 67) in Amboise, France. He was from an Italian nationality.
People these times know most of Leonardo as a scientist and inventor, for the better part of four hundred years his enormous fame rested on his achievements as a painter and on a handful of works, either authenticated or attributed to him that have been regarded as among the supreme masterpieces.
These paintings are famous for a variety of qualities which have been much imitated by students and discussed at great length by connoisseurs and critics. Among the qualities that make Leonardo's work unique are the innovative techniques that he used in laying on the paint, his detailed knowledge of anatomy, light, botany and geology, his interest in physiognomy and the way in which humans register emotion in expression and gesture, his innovative use of the human form in figurative composition and his use of the subtle gradation of tone.      
All these qualities come together in his most famous painted works, the Mona Lisa, the Last Supper and the Virgin of the Rocks.

Facts
Childhood, 1452–1466

      Leonardo's childhood home in Anchiano

Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452 (Old Style), "at the third hour of the night"   in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, in the lower valley of the Arno River in the territory of the Medici-ruled Republic of Florence. He was the out-of-wedlock son of the wealthy Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a Florentine legal notary, and Caterina, a peasant. Leonardo had no surname in the modern sense, “da Vinci” simply meaning “of Vinci”: his full birth name was "Lionardo di ser Piero da Vinci", meaning "Leonardo, (son) of (Mes)ser Piero from Vinci". The inclusion of the title "ser" indicated that Leonardo's father was a...