Leonardo Da Vinci's Accomplishments

Leonardo da Vinci was born in Vinci, Italy on April 15, 1452. Da Vinci came from a broken home, beginning around age five he lived on the estate in Vinci that belonged to the family of his father, Ser Peiro, an attorney and notary. Da Vinci’s uncle, who loved nature also influenced many of Da Vinci’s earlier years and inspired many of his later works as an artist. He had no formal education past the basic reading, writing and math, but his father could see he had artistic talent and apprenticed him at around age 15 to a famous sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio, of Florence. For ten years he worked with Verrocchio refining his skills and gaining a lot of experience with painting and sculpture. When he was 20, the painters’ …show more content…
Da Vinci only has a few surviving pieces of art, mostly because he didn’t make very many to begin with. His most famous are the “Mona Lisa” and “The Last …show more content…
He drew some of the most accurate anatomical sketches of his time. Since they did not know this at the time, the public rejected his scientific work because of his “unorthodox methods” and “improper education”. They ridiculed him and thought he was disgusting. During his time in Florence, Italy, da Vinci was granted permission by the Republic of Florence to use dead bodies from the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova for science. He conducted dissections and autopsies to learn and determine what the body really looked like. Another reason he conducted such strange experiments was to find out how muscles and bones worked, which was revolutionary for the time. His test subjects performed dissections on men, women, and even fetuses. He used all of the information he had learned from the dissections to draw more than 200 pages of anatomical sketches. Leonardo was also a skilled inventor and engineer and created or envisioned hydraulic pumps, flying machines, and even war machines. He was given credit for designing the first war tank, an early helicopter, and the