What/Who influenced Leonardo da Vinci to become a painter and all the other things he did?

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Leonardo wasn't influenced by many at first. What largely inspired him to study anatomy, geology, medicine, engineering, mathematics, botany, etc.... was nature. As a child Leonardo was imensely curious and wanted to learn how nature worked. It was through this that he made many discoveries, for instance he saw a similarity in the way the water would move in a stream as it did in the veins. He noticed that the veins too would biforcate in a manner similar to the branches of a tree. He made many discoveries in flight by placing a flat piece of wood in a stream, when he would position the wood in a certain manner the wood would pass through the water easier. If you read his notebooks he has an enormous respect for nature, and carefully studied every aspect of it. The object he specially revered the most was the eye, he believed it to be the most gracious organ and object produced by nature. This too was a giant step for science, instead of learning about nature through thought and meditation like the greeks, observation became an important device for learning. Whereas Aristotle believed that heavier objects fell to the ground quicker, it took nothing more than to test this with light and heavy objects to know that this wasn't true, and galileo learned this through observation. To Leonardo nothing was greater than to learn about nature specifically through the means of direct observation and in his notebooks he has a vast amount of notes dealing with optics alone. Aside from this he did have to some extent influences from his contemporaries, but the degree is rather small.

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There is no decisive answer to this question but I'll give you the standpoint of the majority of da VInci scholars.

Leonardo's family were makers of majolica pottery and he lived in the coutryside in Tuscany and would have been inspired perhaps by nature, nearby and accessible artwork and the design process in the pottery industry.

There's not a lot known about Leonardo's education but as an illegitimate child he was barred from the type of formal education available to the higher classes 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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Ah, Well I don't kno Ill be a much help for this answer but.... :I think we see more clearly because it was possible that we humans lived a small majority of life in the cell and used the cell for many things...its possible that's we see clearly to the imagination is because we relied so much on that from the cell to survive what we saw as the image of our outer layer surrondding of the cell: "Thats also possible we deleveoped a certian category into divine art with music as a learning surviaal kit for some. Others have lost the interest , not just art/music but reading/vocab. Been years seprated poison our cell within our cell the soul too was drained out of fear and regret that took over us.: All the info I give....I try my best. Now Leonardo da Vinci probably got the same way..who knos? U can read books about him, or surf the web, or watch the movie Da Vinchi Code /or/the book (the same movie title as the book) So sorry the lost of ur friend...Maybe u get in touch by sirit or the new formed body of him. Pleasure answering this question, Buddy *Chrisite*.

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Perhaps the one thing that strikes the most when analyzing Leonardo’s anatomical drawings is the harmony existing between artistic talent and technical precision. Each of his drawings represents in itself an artistic achievement worth studying and understanding for the mechanical implications and technicalities. Leonardo’s drawings are considered by some as the most artistic anatomical drawings of the Renaissance. William Hunter, a renowned surgeon and a competent judge at the time of George III said of Leonardo: “When I consider what pains he has taken upon every part of the body, the superiority of his universal genius, his particular excellence in mechanics and hydraulics, and the attention with which such a man would examine and see objects which he has to draw, I am fully persuaded that Leonardo was the best Anatomist, at his time, in the world…Leonardo was certainly the first man, we know of, who introduced the practice of making anatomical drawings.” (Notebooks, v.2, p. 106) Leonardo wanted to implement his knowledge of the macrocosmos and the physics that rule the world into his microcosmos of the human body. Although Leonardo was inspired and influenced by many contemporaries such as Della Torre, he still created his own style. His work was, indeed, influenced by the several philosophies and theories prevailing in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, however, Da Vinci possessed a unique imagination that separated him from the rest. His obsession with mechanics could relate to his biomechanical obsession of explaining the human body with mechanical models. This originality is often questioned and makes people wonder if Leonardo wasn’t maybe planning on creating something bigger, some sort of perfect human machine.

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In the time period when he was growing up, there was no welfare system as we know it today, no safety net for people temporarily down on their luck.

There were however some people who were ungodly rich who liked nice things, and would pay artisans to make paintings and sculptures and whatever to enhance their palaces and castles.

So any person who had an ounce or artistic talent would visit these rich folks, show what they could do, seek to be put in the stable of artists working on stuff for that rich person.

As the rich people traveled to each other's homes to have dances, parties, orgies, whatever, they would admire each other's tapestries, statues, paintings, whatever, and ask about the artist who did this, so they could "steal" from each other, the best cook, artist. whatever, by offering them a larger commission than they were getting where they were.

The church was also run by rich folks, but what they wanted was art that was religious.

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Leonardo was inspired by African art and culture. See beyond cultural conditioning. Look up the contributions of the Moors in Europe.

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The mind can create pictures, that the eye can only copy. While awake, that copy of reality overwhelms our mental images, and those images are reflected in our imagination, but dimly. Art is the sharing of those images, and Leo was the most charitable artist of our modern world. You can be closer to an artist that lived years ago, than you are to your neighbor, because the artist can reveal his dreams, and visions more skillfully than most people we know. And then poof...he was gone...

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Born at Vinci in the region of Florence, the illegitimate son of a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant girl, Caterina, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter, Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan where several of his major works were created.

Lookup those major names in Wikipedia .... most of his teenage life was spent with them. Not too mention he grew up in a time of great wars or turmoil, art was a huge escape for him... in a way... guilt of leaving his home is seen in many of paintings too.