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Leonardo Da Vinci was an artist and
inventor. He was Michealangelo's rival and they competed to
see who was the better painter. Leonardo experimented with
chemicals all the time, which once caused the destruction of
his second fresco. He was generally ignored most of his life
and not fully appreciated until modern times. Leonardo
started the idea of human flight and made models of his
designs. All three of his flight inventions failed. When he
died, he thought he had accomplished nothing with his life.
He had.
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Leonardo came across quite a few
obstacles in his life. In his time, everyone wanted
realistic paintings or portraits, which meant he worked long
hours each day to make his paintings accurate. Also, when he
started studying anatomy, the Roman Catholic Church
protested and kept him from doing so. Most of his drawings
of inventions were never made into models, such as the first
tank. His flying machines (all three) failed and he was
injured while testing them. In his middle years, the
constant competition between Michealangelo and Leonardo was
a burden. A lady named Isabella de Esté annoyed him
so much that it took him years to finish her last
portrait.
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Leonardo accomplished a lot in his life.
His inventions were ingenious and earned him the job of
weapon designing. His flying machines ideas started people
thinking about air travel and led to the inventing of the
jet and other flying vehicles. Later in his life, he found
out that the earth revolves around our sun and this was
before Galileo. Leonardo made the first painting with baby
Jesus and his mother happy, unlike the other paintings of
that day. One of his temporary jobs was to improve the
canals of Vinci and other cities. He created a poison gas
bomb made of powder to be used in warfare.
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References
Hann Emily. Leonardo Da Vinci,
Landmark books, 1956 Mike Venezia, Meeting Artists:
Leonardo, Library of congress
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Links!
Leonardo Museum, click HERE!
See Leonardo's Drawings!
Another set of links and his paintings!
