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Noah Balis
AP European History

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Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 15th in 1452 in the town of Vinci in present day Italy. He was the illegitimate son of Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci who was a local lawyer. Not much is known of his early life other than that he grew up in his birth town Vinci with his father’s side of the family.

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Leonardo’s artistic mediums took the roles of oil painting, sculpting, and inventing. Though most of his success is attributed to painting, fewer than 24 paintings are actually attributed to him actually exist. He took a lot of interest in sculpting and inventing in addition to his artistic painting abilities.

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With a few patronage exceptions, Leonardo Da Vinci almost exclusively painted realistic images of humans. His goal was to paint people in such a way that their intentions, beliefs, and personalities come to life. Leonardo Da Vinci once said this: “A good painter has two chief objects to paint - Man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard, for it must be expressed by gestures and movements of the limbs.”

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Leonardo’s patrons included the Medici family, Cesare Borgia, and King Francis I of France. He was also commissioned to sculpt a 16 ft high bronze sculpture by Ludovico Sforza in commemoration of Sforza’s father.

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One of the reasons Leonardo Da Vinci is so revered is because he was the definition of a renaissance man. He was everything that was greatly admired in a man plus more. In addition to being a painter, sculptor, and inventor Leonardo was also an architect, military engineer, draftsmen, and master of anatomy. Much of renaissance anatomy came from Leonardo Da Vinci’s sketches and dissections of the human body. Also Da Vinci is credited with the first idea of a “Military Tank”.

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The Mona Lisa is regarded by most as the most recognizable work of art in the world. Most of its allure comes from the mystery surrounding the subject however most art historians agree that the woman being painted is Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of a wealthy Florentine silk merchant. Leonardo never truly finished this work as it was his "final attempt at perfection" and kept coming back to it time and time again.

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The last supper is one of the most famous works of art of all time and a product of Leonardo's ingenious artistic capabilities. Its importance is how realistically he portrayed a significant moment in the bible; something never done before.

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Perhaps Leonardo's most ambitious project was his commission to build a 16ft Bronze Statue to honor Francesco Sforza. He worked on it on and off for 12 years before it was destroyed by French Forces in Milan. Still yet, the mere commissioning of this project proves Da Vinci's well known skill for sculpting.

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Another well recognized work of Da Vinci is "Vitruvian Man" in which Leonardo blends his knowledge of anatomy and science as well as his artistic ability into one work of art. This work symbolized the importance of Da Vinci to paint humans in their true nature.

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Not only did Leonardo Da Vinci demonstrate mastery of the arts, but also demonstrated an enormous amount of creativity. This is especially true of one of his most famous inventions the "flying machine" which was a piloted "aircraft" based on the physiology of a bat.