Leonardo Da Vinci

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e hands. This boy from Vinci astounded
everyone with his superhuman abilities throughout his life. While in Florence, he studied the
letters and music. He was interested in the plant life, and begun his paintings and sketches. Even
at this point in his life, young Leonardo was extremely accurate in his drawings, and his father put
him under the care of Maestro Verrocchio, where he would be an apprentice for the next six
years. So far his life had been somewhat ordinary, but he had shown to be extraordinary, and this
consistency carried on for much of his life. Here he learned the basis of his technological
knowledge while working on church pieces, silverware, and bronze statutes. By 1472, his
apprenticeship was over, and he had been passed as a master in the St. Luke guild of painters.

Society and it's Influences

During Leonardo's apprenticeship with Maestro Verrocchio, he had the chance to work in several
pieces for the Medici. In 1469, Lorenzo de Medici is over-thrown from power, and from then on
the...