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This website is all about leonardo da Vinci and his contriboutions to the renaissance. We will talk about his art, inventions and his sketches
Leonardo was the illegitimate son of a peasant women and a lawyer. Because of this he could not take on the family buissness so he went on to train as an artist and a sculptor under the watchful eye of Andrea del Verocchio in Florence.
Leonardo's most famous painting is undoubtably the Mona Lisa (see top of page). What makes her so famous are numerous things: 1. Her posture and the detail on her face. 2. There is a lot of mystery surrounding the Mona Lisa, some people think that she is Da vinci in drag (a man dressed as a women) and others say she is smiling because she is either laughing at the men who where entertaining her or she was smiling because she was secretly pregnant.
Leonardo da Vinci, actually means Leonardo of Vinci. He has this name because he could not take his fathers name, or his mothers name, so Leonardo became Leonardo of Vinci.
It took Leonardo three hole years to paint most of his paintings, mostly because it took an immense lot of detail for them .Leonardo was very picky about the detail on his paintings, that's why The Mona Lisa was never given to the people who actually commissioned it from him, because he was in love with it so much that it was his attempt at perfection, and I have to say that he achieved this without a doubt.
Leonardo was the illegitimate son of a peasant women and a lawyer. Because of this he could not take on the family buissness so he went on to train as an artist and a sculptor under the watchful eye of Andrea del Verocchio in Florence.
Leonardo's most famous painting is undoubtably the Mona Lisa (see top of page). What makes her so famous are numerous things: 1. Her posture and the detail on her face. 2. There is a lot of mystery surrounding the Mona Lisa, some people think that she is Da vinci in drag (a man dressed as a women) and others say she is smiling because she is either laughing at the men who where entertaining her or she was smiling because she was secretly pregnant.
Leonardo da Vinci, actually means Leonardo of Vinci. He has this name because he could not take his fathers name, or his mothers name, so Leonardo became Leonardo of Vinci.
It took Leonardo three hole years to paint most of his paintings, mostly because it took an immense lot of detail for them .Leonardo was very picky about the detail on his paintings, that's why The Mona Lisa was never given to the people who actually commissioned it from him, because he was in love with it so much that it was his attempt at perfection, and I have to say that he achieved this without a doubt.