Leonardo Da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci was a man ahead of his time, and against all odds prevailed over skeptics and used his ideas to make the modern world what it is today. He was making advancements that we have only mastered six hundred years after his death. He was a genius of his time and a genius of even our modern day. In the 1400s when he was flourishing with new ideas and concepts, people of his town doubted his ideas, saying that they would never work or that he was insane for producing these concepts. After all of these negative thoughts, he still kept working at these wonderful ideas of his that would later influence the modern world. He was born on April 15, 1452 in the village of Vinci, Italy. By the time he was ten, people started to notice his abilities in art, engineering, and architecture. He moved into a workshop of the famous painter, Verrocchio, in Florence. He started my apprenticeship in painting. After working in the workshop for eleven years, at the age of twenty-one he put together all of the skills that he had learned and mastered, and created his first well known drawing which was of the Arno landscape, a part of Italy. By the age of twenty-six he was a master painter and he was recognized by his fellow artists in the workshop, as the best painter in Florence.
Three years after his first drawing, he was then asked to work on a painting, which has been sketched out, by Verrocchio and his other students, he was asked to complete the piece by painting and finishing the artwork, this was then known as his first real painting, Baptism of Christ. After working in the workshop for almost twenty years, he decided to pursue a solo painting career and moved to Milan in 1482. In Milan, he started some of my most famous works like the Virgin of the Rocks, and started plans of one of his favorite sculptures, later known as the Great Horse. In Milan, He discovered another talent of mine, engineering. He sent letters to many military leaders advising them that he could be of great resource as a military engineer. Years later, he started to create many scientific ideas like city planning, waterways, and flying machines. He started to fill notebooks, which are still around today with human anatomy, musical inventions, optics, ballistics, hydraulics, and painting styles and techniques. These notebooks hold the keys to many modern day inventions, like the armored tank, and the first helicopter. In 1495, he started work on one of my most famous paintings, the Last Supper. This is painted on the wall of the Dominican monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie. This painting took three years for him to complete. This painting was of Christ and his disciples at their last time together. Shortly after the competition of this painting