Famous Figure of Art (1)

Leonardo da Vinci. I think no one never heard this name, everyone know that he is the master of art.  He was known as a painter, moreover he was a botanist, anatomist, musician, scientist, geologist, and inventor too. Among his work, Mona Lisa is the most famous portrait, which is now kept in Louvre Paris Museum.
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Tuscan hill town of Vinci. He is the son of Ser Piero da Vinci and Caterina. His name means Leonardo, son of Ser Piero from Vinci city.
Da Vinci spent his first 5 years in his mother's house, in the hamlet of Anchiano. Then, in 1457 he lived in the household of his father, in the small city of Vinci.
in 1466, when he was 14 years old, he had learned painting with Andrea del Verrocchio in Firenze. There is news that Verrocchio retiring because Da Vinci is very great painter, and many other talents, exceed him.
In 1481, Da Vinci move to Milan, work for Duke there. His most famous work during in Milan is Sforza Horse, that he was made for 11 years. But, there's not only paint and sculpture, he also transform the streets of rivers and building canals. Then, he work for King Louis XII of France in Milan and to Pope Leo X in Rome.

In his life Leonardo was interested in science. He began studying the birds fly and started designing flying machines. The thinking is captured in the book as much as 7000 pages of memoirs.
In the book there is also a sketch of the study of the human body. In those days, the anatomy of the human body is nothing more than just about anyone else is strictly prohibited due to dissect corpses. With his recklessness steal surgeon opportunity to dissect a dead body, later actions were not uncommon in this era contributed greatly to the world of medicine.

In 1476, Florentine court records show that Da Vinci and 3 young men were charged with sodomy and acquitted. Because of that incident, from 1476 until 1478 there is no record of his work. But, in January 1478, he received his first of two independent commissions. First, he have to paint an altarpiece for the Chapel of St.Bernard in Palazzo Vecchio. And the second, he received on March 1481, that he have to make The Adoration of the Magi for the Monks of San Donato a Scopeto. Then, Da Vinci work for Milan from 1482 until 1499. He was commissioned to paint the Virgin of the Rocks for the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception and The Last Supper for the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie, and this included in one of his masterpiece.
From 1513 until 1516, Da Vinci spent much of his time in the Belvedere in Vatican, Rome, where annother great artist, Raphael and Michaelangelo were both active in that time.
Da Vinci dead on May 2, 1519, when he was 67 years old in Amboise, Touraine. People say "there had never been another man born in the world who knew as much as Leonardo, not so much about painting, sculpture and architecture, as that he was a very great philosopher."