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Leonardo da Vinci is one of the greatest minds in history. Da Vinci is greatly skilled and has mastery in art, science, and engineering. The achievements that Leonardo has made in his lifetime, in the fields of science, and art were too advanced for his time period. Leonardo da Vinci was one of the great masters of the Renaissance. Celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist, he revolutionized how the modern man thinks.
Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in the town of Vinci, Italy, Da Vinci was the son of Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a Florentine notary, and Caterina da Vinci. The artist’s full name, Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, means Leonardo son of Messer Piero of Vinci. Leonardo’s youth did not get documented until 1466, when he was 14 years old. Da Vinci …show more content…

Da Vinci uses a newly found medium of oil paints. Leonardo spent much of his life trying to create realistic paintings which was the complete opposite of the other religious styled paintings. His complete mastery of techniques, such as perspective, chiaroscuro and sfumato, which is a subtle gradation of tone, allowed him to create extremely realistic three-dimensional effects. With his mastery of both design and color pigments had a huge impact on succeeding generations of artists. Leonardo Da Vinci improved over time by using different techniques and having a unique quality to him. One of the unique things that Leonardo had was his left-handedness. Leonardo also used a technique called "hatching", where the artist worked by sketching in series of short, quickly-drawn parallel lines, being left handed these lines went from the upper left down to the lower right; most artists, right-handed, hatch from the upper right down to the lower left. Throughout Leonardo life he also created a number of drawing tricks, including inventing curved hatching, to give a three-dimensional

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