His father was a notary public, but his father’s profession had no impact on him because he was a bastard. It was not necessary for him to grow up to be a notary public; he already knew that. Since people didn’t pressure him, perhaps we got a talented person like him. Because he was a bastard child, no care was taken for him. He was told that no money would be spent on his studies or hobbies. So Leonardo da Vinci did not have any formal education. He learned a little math and basic studies.

When he was 12-13, he moved to Florence with his father. You have to understand that we are talking about the golden age of Europe. Florence was a cultural center at the time. All the great artists, writers, and singers of the world came to Florence or stayed around Florence. He saw the culture and slowly began to sketch on paper, drawing anything unusual that he saw around him. But his father took that sketchbook and gave it to an experienced artist who owned a large photography shop. The man then asked Leonardo da Vinci’s father to let Leonardo practice painting in his shop and promised to make him a great photographer. After that, at the age of 17, he started an internship at that store.

Leonardo da Vinci and the owner of that shop had a master-disciple relationship. In this relationship, his artistic life began. At that time, there was a technique called “Chiaroscuro,” which allowed shadows to be created within an image. Until then, whenever an artist drew a picture, they could not create shadows in the image. Leonardo da Vinci invented this technique. He also developed another technique called “Sfumato,” which allowed images to be drawn without using harsh lines. He discovered these techniques through experimentation. As a result of these discoveries, he created two paintings. Upon seeing them, his guru was surprised and thought he would abandon painting, believing that Leonardo da Vinci’s work would never surpass the quality of his own. Consequently, he never picked up a paintbrush again. Later, Leonardo da Vinci invented another technique called oil painting.

“Portrait of a Man with Red Chalk (c. 1510) in the Royal Library of Turin is not universally recognized as a self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci. He is believed to have painted this portrait when he was about 60 years old. This portrait has been widely reproduced and has become a symbolic representation of Leonardo as a polymath or ‘Renaissance Man.’ Nevertheless, some historians and scholars disagree about the true identity of the subject. This is a short paragraph about Leonardo da Vinci’s self-portrait.”

After doing an internship for a long time and gradually becoming popular, he thought to himself that now he would open his own shop. He also runs a shop in Florence, and people order from him; he gives them pictures. But after a few days, a problem arose. It became evident that he could no longer draw pictures because he was experiencing clinical depression. He could not draw a picture even if he picked up a pencil. At that time, Leonardo da Vinci used to write many journals. During his difficult period, he wrote a troubling entry in his journal: “Tell me if anything was ever done. Tell me, tell me, while I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.” He felt that when he could no longer create pictures, he would die.

A golden opportunity came for Leonardo da Vinci while his bad luck was ongoing. The king of Florence was considering giving a musical gift to the king of Milan and needed someone to carry and play the instrument. The name of the musical instrument was Loir. That’s when he found Leonardo da Vinci, who was known to play this instrument better than anyone in the city of Florence. Leonardo was then offered the task of carrying the instrument. However, he sold his shop and moved to Milan.

When he was in Milan, he had a strange hobby: cutting human corpses. He wanted to buy one or two corpses every week and dissect them to see what was inside. At that time, all the art or paintings of the human body belonged to Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci’s journal reveals how a human heart works. He was a very interesting person. A list of daily expenses and the heart activity of people was also written on one page. He did not take any pictures during his stay in Milan, but he painted two famous pictures during this time. One of these famous works is “The Last Supper.”

He left for France after a few days. A few days later, he had his first stroke. As a result, he lost a lot of money. Because of this stroke, he could not draw like before. Despite this, France respected him a lot. At that time, Leonardo da Vinci died, having been beheaded by King Francis of France. The year of his death was 1519.