Leonardo Da Vinci was born in Vinci Italy near Florence in 1452 to a wealthy father and peasant mother, he died in 1519. As a child, Da Vinci loved to be out in nature which sparked his curiosity and inspiration for his innovative creations and paintings. As a teenager, Da Vinci moved to Florence, Italy where he decided to take some art classes and found a talent for painting and designing different works of art (Richardson). Da Vinci was an important artist who was celebrated as a painter, sculptor, …show more content…
He developed a method called “Mirror Writing” to protect his work from snoops by simply writing words backwards and in reverse order. The only way the text would look normal is by holding it to a mirror to read (Mejia). In his time, Da Vinci was considered to be one of the greatest futurists with his designs and works of art (“The Futurist”). In 1495 Leonardo Da Vinci was asked by the Duke of Milan to paint a mural for a dining room, so Da Vinci painted "The Last Supper." People loved the piece and that’s how Da Vinci first gets his start to fame (Richardson). Because of his accomplishments and inventions, he is now the subject in a special exhibit at the museum of science in Boston. While the exhibits designers done quite understand the thinking process Da Vinci went through, they have attempted to replicate his work (“The Futurist”). Da Vinci was infinitely curious and looked for answers through observation, reasoning, and experimentation, this led him to create an interesting and detailed anatomy drawings and the most famous on is called “The Vitruvian Man (“The Futurist”).” Through Da Vinci’s life-time he created many innovative machines and