Leonardo Da Vinci's Accomplishments

Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in a small village near the city of Vinci. He belonged to Ser Piero da Vinci who worked a notary and Caterina da Vinci believed to been a slave back in the country-side. He appreciated art and was very interested in science and nature, which helped him to become a great sculptor, painter, inventor and draftsman later on in his life.
As a child, he demonstrated excellent artistic skills. He was demanded by many and eventually worked as an apprentice to the recognized Florentine painter Verrocchio at the age of fourteen. For years that went by, Leonardo continued to improve his drawing and sculpting knowledge. When he turned twenty, he was qualified as a master artist and attended in the Guild of Saint Luke, a painter’s guild, and built his own workshop.
The beginning of Leonardo’s professional life is somewhat unrecorded and remains as a slight mystery. He left Verrocchio’s workplace and did not live in his father’s house any longer. However, it was noted in early 1478 that he was
hired to paint an altarpiece for the Chapel of St. Bernard in the Palazzo Vecchio, and a few years later for the monks of San Donato. The Adoration of Magi, created for the monks, was the start of when people commissioned Leonardo for work.
In 1842, Lorenzo de’ Medici, a strong power of the Republic of Florence, commissioned Leonardo to make a silver lyre and to deliver it to Ludovico il Moro, whose position was the Duke of Milan as a symbol of friendship and piece.
With the work completed, he secretly included a letter stating how his skills would be of great advantage to Ludovico’s court that and attached it on his delivery. That letter then successfully persuaded Ludovico and for many years, he hired Leonardo to sculpt and paint artwork for him. During that period, the famous ‘The Last Supper’ was created. Another famous painting by Leonardo was the Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa was another privately commissioned item but was never properly delivered to the unknown buyer. Thus, Leonardo kept it until his death and now belongs in the Louvre Museum in Paris behind plexiglass. The Mona Lisa resembled Lisa Gioconda, a real-life wife of a merchant, but even that is yet to be
confirmed. Though unbelievable, Leonardo da Vinci had a history of crime. Leonardo had dug up bodies and dissected them, an extremely illegal act unless it was done by a physician. He took notes on muscle movement, bone structure and the functions of organs. Leonardo applied the information onto his sketches and later drew a new set for a medical book published by the Catholic Church as he had gotten special permission. One of the medical drawings he did was The Vitruvian Man. In another criminal matter, Leonardo was accused of sodomy with three other men but was the charges were later dropped.
Leonardo also had a great influence during the Italian Renaissance. He had similar thoughts to the rulers at that time: that he did not see a divide between science and art. He brought many new ideas about music and fine arts, was dubbed the ‘Renaissance Man’ and had differing views of the so called ‘Dark Ages’. He inspired change by the serene wall of his art and unique thinking. All of his observations are noted in in a thirteen-thousand paged notebook and includes blueprints of flying machines, drawings and not to mention the anatomy of the human body.