Leonardo Da Vinci
Basic Information
Birth: April 15, 1452
Death: May 2, 1519
Place of Birth: Vinci, Italy
Principal Residence: Florence_
Death: May 2, 1519
Place of Birth: Vinci, Italy
Principal Residence: Florence_
Facts about Leonardo da Vinci
- Leonardo performed autopsies on corpses to improve his knowledge of physiology, and ridiculed lesser artists' depictions of human flesh, saying they looked like 'sacks of nuts.'
- He was a left-handed dyslexic and procrastinating perfectionist who left many paintings unfinished and destroyed most of his work.
- Leonardo enjoyed purchasing caged birds so that he could set them free
- He never married or had children and had a reputation of being a man of high character.
- It took Leonardo Da Vinci about ten years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.
- He was a left-handed dyslexic and procrastinating perfectionist who left many paintings unfinished and destroyed most of his work.
- Leonardo enjoyed purchasing caged birds so that he could set them free
- He never married or had children and had a reputation of being a man of high character.
- It took Leonardo Da Vinci about ten years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.