There's no doubt! When I talk about Italy to my mind comes several images, above of art, for this reason, I want to talk about Leonardo Da Vinci, a representative Italian artist that change the world with him wonderfull pictures, curious invents and futuristic visions. His most famous work is "La Gioconda" a picture from a misterious woman that even causes comotion, this work can be in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Leonardo Da Vinci Biography
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born at Vinci in the region of Florence, Italy, in April 15, 1452 and die In May 2, 1519 when he was 67 years old.
He was a man with multiple disciplines, including painter, engineer, anatomist and inventor, among others, but the most representative was the painting. Among his works, The Gioconda is most famous .
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The Mona Lisa |
Leonardo was educated in painting and sculpture, when he was 14 years old, for the Florentine painter, Andrea de Verrocchio; there he remained from six years. Also he studied anatomy in the sudio Antonio Pollaiuollo. After he worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice and spent his last years in France.
Like an engineer and inventor, he developed ideas that couldn’t be executed in his time but very importants in the currently like the car and helicopter. He was a big scientist anatomist and described many groups of muscles, bones and their function.
Leonardo was considerate like a universal genius.In May 2 from 1519 Leonardo died in Cloux, he let him testament to him friend Melzi, in it had books, paints and writes that he retorned to Italy.
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The Vitruvio's Man |