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LEONARDO DA VINCI GENIUS OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE CHAPTER ONE 4 Many people can do one thing well Some people can do many things well Leonardo da Vinci was a person who was good at many things He was a talented artist who created paintings draw ings and sculptures He was also a great mind in the field of science WHO WAS LEONARDO DA VINCI Leonardo da Vinci is one of the world’s most famous artists
5 Leonardo lived in Italy in the 1400s during a period of time called the Renaissance The word Renaissance means rebirth in French It was called this because there was a rebirth of interest in ancient Greece and Rome The Europeans of the Renaissance took the ideas of the ancient people and built on these ideas to develop their own The work of artists became more true to Leonardo’s painting of John the Baptist now hangs in the Louvre museum in Paris WHO WAS LEONARDO DA VINCI