Leonaro Da Vinci

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Leonardo Di Ser Piero Da Vinci was an renaissance polymath:
painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer.

Leicester codex is the name of one of Leonardo Da Vinci’s journals that now belongs to Bill Gates, the ex-chairman of microsoft. he purchased it for more than 30 million dollars.

Parents:
Since Leonardo was born to parents who were not legally married, he did not have a surname. His name ‘Leonardo Da Vinci’ literally translates as ‘Leonardo of vinci’ (vinci was his birthplace).

Leonardo never really attended school. However, he was imformally taught to read and write at his fathers house. Here, he was also given elementary training of languages, geometry and arithmetic.

Leonardo was a vegetarian, and did not even drink milk in his life.

He was left-handed and always wrote in mirror writing.

Leonardo never married, neither did he have a relationship with anybody.

His favorite colour was pink.

Da Vinci is said to have left many of his paintings incomplete. Reportedly, he has also destroyed a number of his own works.

Leonardo did not make a self-portrait until almost 1515.


Date of birth:
15th April, 1452 at Vinci, Italy
Demise:
2nd may, 1519 at Amboise, France
Nationality:
Italian


THE DA VINCI CODE

Hidden in the dark paint of her pupils are tiny letters and numbers, placed there by the artist Leonardo da Vinci and revealed only now thanks to high-­magnification techniques.

Hidden in the dark paint of her pupils are tiny letters and numbers, placed there by the artist Leonardo da Vinci and revealed only now thanks to high-­magnification techniques.

Under the microscope: Historians in Italy have discovered that by magnifying the eyes of the Mona Lisa painting tiny numbers and letters can be seen