Leonardo Da Vinci Influences

Leonardo da Vinci’s art, which later becomes some of the most famous and prominent of our time, was motivated mostly because of things he simply wanted to learn about. “Leonardo used drawing as a means of exploring virtually every topic that attracted his voracious intellect.” (1) His work was largely influenced, and relied greatly on his mentor Andrea del Verrochio, to whom he was apprenticed at the age of fourteen. Leonardo asked questions about the natural world, and it seems he had a gift of being able to draw precisely what he saw, and what he learned about. He is the most famous for his painting the “Mona Lisa” which involved his extensive knowledge and skills about shading, color, and perspective. He was able to perfectly execute