Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Where was Leonardo da Vinci educated?

There's not a lor known about Leonardo's education but as an illegitimate child he was barred from the type of formal education available to the higher cles during this period. Da Vinci's mirror writing is most likely a childhhood mistake due to his left handedness which was never corrected. He could write normally but was perhaps most comfortable writing mirror. (He did though use both hands to draw) Leonardo's grandmother encouraged his art and his childhood was rich in practice. Her family produced majolica pottery and there is some evidence that Leonardo even participated. His upbringing was a country one in Vinci but it was not a backward place. There was fantastic artwork in the nearby churches and nature to inspire his drawings. It is recorded that Leonardo lived in Vinci ultil 1468. His training as an apprentice in Verrochio's workshop began between that date and 1472 when his name appears in the account book of the painters’ confraternity, the Compagnia di San Luca (“Company of St. Luke”) in Florence, which implies that he was working as painter in his own right.

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