Renaissance Italy
Leonardo
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Leonardo da Vinci is an Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose skill and intelligence, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. His notebooks reveal a spirit of scientific inquiry and a mechanical inventiveness that are centuries ahead of their time.
The unique fame that Leonardo enjoys rests largely on his unlimited desire for knowledge, which guides all his thinking and behaviour. An artist by disposition and endowment, he considers his eyes to be his main avenue to knowledge. Leonardo is a troubled genius, one who is hungry for knowledge but frustrated that he has not yet found his true calling. He usually spends his days sating his curiosity by investigating anything that catches his eye and is a bit of a lone wolf. Leonardo have a gracious but reserved personality and an elegant bearing. He is known to be fastidious in personal care, keeping himself neat and clean. Leonardo cares little for money but is very generous toward his friends and assistants. He has an exceedingly inquisitive mind and makes strenuous efforts to become erudite in languages, natural science, mathematics, philosophy, and history, among other subjects.
He is as a bastard who grows up as a peasant, and somebody who opposes religion and religious notions—consequently, he is a social outcast.
While his genius is uplifting, it also has a destructive component—both to him and the world at large. As a bastard, he yearns for legitimacy; most notably with his father. Wounded by his father’s disdain, he looks for a surrogate father in his mentor Andrea Verrocchio.
You are part of the famous Medici family and Leonardo is commissioned to paint your portrait.
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