Leonardo da Vinci

was a florentine artist, one of the big masters of the High Renaissance who was also celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist.

Leonardo da Vinci was born on the 15th April 1452 in the small Toskanian city of Vinci close to Florence. He was the son of a well-to-do Florentinischen of notary public and a farmer. In the middle of the 1460s the family prepared in Florence where Leonardo da Vinci the best education was given which could offer Florence.

At his teenager's age Leonardo da Vinci was sent to the painter Andrea del Verrocchio as an apprentice where he developed fast his own artistic style which was unique and against the tradition to devise even so to a great extent, his own special formula of the colour.

Later Leonardo da Vinci court painter became for duke of Milan. In his whole life he served also different other roles, including engineer, architect, military planner and weapon designer.

Although Leonardo da Vinci generated a relatively small number of pictures from which many remained incomplete, he was still an exceptionally innovative and high-powered artist.

Mona Lisa, the most famous work of Leonardo da Vinci, is known also for his control of technical innovations, as well as the mysteriousness of her legendary smile. This work is a perfect example of two techniques - sfumato and chiaroscuro - from which Leonardo da Vinci one of the first big masters was. Leonardo da Vinci earns maybe more than somebody, otherwise, the title of homo Universalis, universal genius.