Leonardo DaVinci
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Leonardo DaVinci
Geniuses come few and far between in history. Hippocrates came in the late BC
period. Einstein came in the late 1800s-early 1900s. Leonardo came in between
the two of them, but is not recognized as well as they are. He was a brilliant
human being. He was a master in the fields of painting, designing, engineering,
and science. Most people know him merely as an artist, and some know him as an
inventor, but not too many people know him for what he really was. This is
because his life and his accomplishments are not taught, as in depth as they
should be. During the height of the renascence, a genius was born in 1452 in the
small town of Vinci, near Florence. He would become a great artist, engineer,
inventor, and a scientist. His name was Leonardo, a name that would soon be
associated with the word brilliant. He was born to Piero, the lawyer of the
town, and Catarina, who gave Leonardo to his father, and left them both for a
man of her social class. She is not mentioned in Leonardo's notebooks, as he was
probably too young to remember her. Leonardo grew up feeling different from the
other children. He had a strange curiosity that was lacking in the other
children. He would buy birds from the markets, and set them free, because he
thought it was wrong to keep them locked up in cages. He also had a strange
curiosity about the world around him. He kept collections of "snakeskins,
odd stones polished by water, birds' eggs, the skeletons of small animals,
insects stuck on pins, tadpoles, and strange plants," in his room because
they fascinated him. Leonardo would draw the things in his collection in a
notebook. When his father saw the notebook, he thought that there was a
possibility that Leonardo had a chance to become an artist. Piero went into
Florence once a month on business and one time he brought some of his son’s
work. He showed it to his friend Andrea del Verrocchio. “He saw more than just
mere talent in Leonardo” and almost immediately, Leonardo moved to Florence as
Verrocchio apprentice. Leonardo never got married. From what is known, he did
not have any children, either. I find this tragic, for if he had any children,
they may have possibly continued in Leonardo’s footsteps, and become great
geniuses as well. Leonardo was so talented that after Leonardo painted two
angels in the corner of Verrocchio’s Baptism of Christ, Verrocchio never
painted again. Soon after that Leonardo went on to paint the Annunciation, which
was his first of o...
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