The life of Leonardo Davinci, who was born in 1452 April 15th, was not like the life of yours or mine. You see, life 550 years ago was very different than today. There weren't any cars, buses, or planes back then. Carriages were like cars, and there weren't any planes until Leonardo invented one. It hardly flew at all, but before we go into that let's start at the beginning.

At an early age Leonardo's father took him to the famous artist, Andrea del Verrocchio to learn how to paint and sculpt. When Verrocchio had Leonardo paint an angel for one of his pictures, he was shocked at how much finer the angel was than everything else in the picture, and Verrocchio never picked up a paintbrush again.

When Leonardo was twenty, he was accepted into the painters' guild. But his career got off to a very slow start. As he was to do all his life, he began projects only to abandon them. In his lifetime he made lots of marvelous paintings like Mona Lisa, Virgin of the Rocks, and The Last Supper. He also had to break the law of studying the human body in order to perfect his drawing ability. It was illegal back then to cut open a human body because of religious reasons. In 1850, May 2nd, Leonardo Davinci died.