Leonardo da Vinci died 500 years ago today. His influence can still be felt in science, math, architecture, design, engineering, geology, cartography, sculpting, drawing and, of course, painting.
Leonardo's work, has been making headlines ever since. After plans to exhibit it at the Louvre Abu Dhabi were announced, and then canceled, in 2018, even the artwork's whereabouts have become uncertain, adding further to its mystique., a hamlet near the Tuscany town of Vinci, about 25 miles west of Florence. His full birth name was Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, which means"Leonardo, son of Piero, from Vinci," which is generally shortened to just Leonardo da Vinci.
His mother was a local peasant named Caterina and his father was a wealthy notary. Leonardo was born out of wedlock, and both parents married other people after his birth, but he spent his childhood on his father's estate, where he was educated and treated like a legitimate son.joined the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio
in Florence, where he would study painting and sculpture and work for over a decade. It was during this period that Leonardo was accused of sodomizing a male prostitute, following an anonymous tip-off. The charges carried a possible death penalty, though they were eventually dropped.Throughout his life, Leonardo, who never married, had several assistants who may also have been lovers -- most prominently Gian Giacomo Caprotti, nicknamed Salaì, who went on to become an artist himself.
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