Your Favorive Artist (Essay Sample)

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Your Favourite Artists
The favorite artist discussed in this text is the renowned Italian Renaissance Leonardo da Vinci. He was born in a place called Anchiano next to Vinci in Italy on April 15th the year 1452. Being an illegitimate child, his father was Ser Piero da Vinci, a noticeable notary of Florence and his mother was a local woman. Very little is known regarding his childhood apart from the information about his father apprenticing him to Andrea Del Verrocchio who was the leading artist of the city of Florence and the initial Renaissance. For a period of six months, da Vinci learned a variety of technical skills that included leather arts, metal working, sculpting, drawing, and carpentry and by the age of twenty he was already a qualified master artist in the Saint Luke Guild and went on to establish his own workshop.
Following his birth prior to the development of the modern naming conventions in Europe, the full names of Da Vinci were Leonardo do ser Piero da Vinci, meaning Leonardo the son of Mr. Piero from the city of Vinci. In the year 1476, Leonardo was anonymously accused together with other three men of the crime of sodomy with a model aged 17 years called Jacopo Saltarelli, a dishonorable male prostitute. He served a jail term of two months and was acquitted due to lack of witnesses. Leonardo also made several inputs into the world of science with his scientific inquiries filling over 13,000 pages with the subjects ranging from machines to anatomy.<...