Leonardo Davinci- notes

• Leonardo Davinci moved to Florence when he was 12 years old with his father 
• Italy was a collection of republics and city-states
• Began as an apprentice of the artist Verrocchio
• Kept notebooks about his ideas on science and art
• One idea had to do with perspective
• Leonardo was inspired by Brunelleschi
• Painting was very 2 dimensional in Medieval Times; no depth; flat
• Renaissance paintings were more 3 dimensional; depth
• Leonardo wrote in mirror images to code his notebooks
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