According to Bio.com Leonardo De Vince was born in Italy. He was interested in many other subjects than just art, his learning in medicine would later help in his understand of the human body in painting people. Because he was a renascence artist he had freedom to create that is unique to this time period (Editors). One of the great ways that he discovered light to use in is paintings, was being observant to the word around him. In his letter he talked about “the highest snows, lit by the sun long after the plain and lower hills are sunk in shadow, continue shining through one-third of the night, like a comet (Riordan).” Understanding how light worked, and studying the world around him helped him become a better
