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Historical accuracy not vetted or verified…interesting, just the same…
On this date, May 2nd, in 1519, he died.
Born in 1452, his father was a successful civil official in Florence.
His mother was a young peasant woman named Caterina.
They were not married, so he was a bastard child, raised by his grandparents in the small town of Vinci, about 25 miles from Florence.
By age 13, he had shown a talent for drawing, so his father apprenticed him to Andrea Verrocchio, the official artist of the Medici family. His studio was also a research center for chemistry, mechanics, optics, and other sciences.
When he was 30, Leonardo went to Milan, where he was an “all around expert” at the duke’s court, involved in everything from painting to plumbing.
It was in Milan that he painted The Last Supper as a fresco in the dining room of a Dominican convent. It became immediately famous.
Leonardo was 47 when the French captured Milan, and he returned to Florence. During this time he painted Mona Lisa. King Francis-I later gave him a generous pension to come to France. Leonardo accepted, and lived his “final years” in exile, quietly pursuing his multiple interests.
Leonardo hand wrote his findings in diaries. They included designs for engines and machines, personal notes, scientific observations, and much more.
A mysterious feature is that, unless he was writing to other people, he used mirror writing, – starting at the right side of the page and moving to the left.
Is this because, since he was left handed, it avoided smudging the ink with his hand when moving from left to right? Or was there some other reason?
No one knows.