An Interview with Leonardo Da Vinci

... An Interview with Leonardo Da Vinci Our life is made by the death of others; I have not been learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. I remember very little of Anchiano when I was born in 1452, but my memories of Vinci are clearer, such as my father, Piero and my mother, Catarina and the small church there. However, when I was 14 years old, my family and I moved to Florence, where I received the best education possible there, for which Florence was the intellectual and artistic centre of Italy. I soon became the apprentice of Andrea del Verrocchio and began to experiment with painting in oils, soon becoming a young painter. In 1481, I painted The Adoration of the Magi. This was one of the first large paintings that I created, and although I didn't realise it at the time, my painting skills were far

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