By Alex Rayham

Andrea del Verrocchio: He was Leonardo’s teacher when he was about 13 years old.

Ludovico Sforza: He was the ruler of Milan, and he spent a lot of money on art.

Michelangelo: Very famous artist and Leonardo’s enemy.

Vicenzo Peruggia: He stole the monalisa from a museum.

Salai: Leonardo’s apprentice when he was ten years old.

Francesco Melzi: Leonardo’s last apprentice and faithful companion.

Leonardo as a young; He worked as an apprentice in the noisy and exciting workshop of artist Andrea del Verrocchio.

Covers Leonardo’s childhood and adolecence.

An elligitimate child, he had relative little

education but was very curious abot the

world.

At 13 he join to Verrocchio (he was impresed

about he’s work) in his workshop in Florence.

Leonardo was interested in innovations as Oil Paintings.

He studied nature and anatomy.

He was a great artist but also he was facinating by sculture, architecture and mechanics.

Leonardo was a very curious about the natural world.

He was particularly interested in anatomy, and he often diseccted and drew various parts of human bodies.

Leonardo was facinating with machines, from musical instruments to weapons and clockwork robots.

He was enthralled by the idea of flight and his desings included parachutings and fying machines.

In response to a terrible plague in Milan, Leonardo made plans for a cleaner, more open city, with underground transport.

He had pioneering ideas about canals and bridges, unfortunatly he was too ambitious to realised this project at that time.

Leonardo also worked with some ruthless dictator such as Cesare Borgia.

He was a kind , peacefull man and very clever and brilliant.

This chapter shows another facet of Leonardo’s talent: He was a gifted musician and singer, and often directed theatrical performances for his patrols.

The relationship with his family wasn’t very good. His father died wealthy , left him nothing in his will.

Emplains how Leonardo’s interest in anatomy aroused the suspicious of the church.

Also talks about Da Vinci’s the “strange aspects” of his life, including his mirror writing, and his love for codes, symbols and mysteries (exploited in Dan Brown’s book The Da vinci code)

Describes Leonardo’s long difficult journey over the Alps to France, where he was to spend the last few years of his life under the patronage of the French King.

He died at the age of 67. Francesco Melzi (Leonardo’s faithful

companion) tried to put all Leonardo’s work into book form.

Reflects on the amazing range of Leonardo’s talents and the enigmatic nature of his character.

His boundless imagination have inspired artists and scientists throughout the centuries.