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1. Leonardo Da Vinci

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   Early Life and Florentine Training
   Leonardo was born illegitimately in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, the son of a wealthy Florentine notary, Piero da Vinci, and a local peasant woman, Caterina. Around the age of fourteen, he was apprenticed to the renowned Florentine artist Andrea del Verrocchio. Verrocchio’s workshop was a nexus of Florentine artistic and intellectual activity, exposing Leonardo to techniques in painting, sculpting, and mechanical arts. It was during this period that he began his lifelong study of optics and…