alfred nobel
...tay with Verrocchio until he gained membership into the painter’s guild which was in 1472. After the end of his apprenticeship he did not leave Florence, instead he decided to stay and begin his career in Florence. His first known and dated painting was a pen and ink drawing of the Arnovalley on August 5th, 1473. He drew this unique picture in a way that it seemed real before your eyes. No one had done a painting like this so everyone was astonished how Leonardo had done such an awesome feat. This painting had started Leonardo Da Vinci’s wonderful career. Leonardo went on to paint a couple of more paintings then a weird accusation came about from an anonymous person on April 8th, 1467. The accusation proposed that Leonardo and four other men have had a homosexual affair with a model, Jacopo Saltarelli. This story is supposed to indicate that the great Leonardo Da Vinci might have been a homosexual or maybe a bisexual person. That is weird but did that hinder Leonardo to make the history books today? NO! Leonardo continued to paint. sculpt, engineer, and many other great feats of miracles. Leonardo was not always known for his artistic skills but also as a scientist. He had a yearning to know more which led him to discover many unknown things at that time. His curiosity inspired many and it became a symbol of the Renaissance sprit of learning and intellectual curiosity. His notebooks, which number more than 4,000, contain detailed drawings of diagram and observations. Leonardo’s notebooks are filled with careful drawings of much type of machines that we could use in our daily lives. Some machines were war, flying, work, water, and land machines. He even was an architect who taught of everything from a perfect city to temples with multiple domes. His engineering thoughts were unconceivable so some were not made, but look at us today we have flying machines and perfect cities, deep-sea diving suit, we mostly have all the machines that Leonardo could think in that huge mind of his. Leonardo was also known as a scientist. In his notebooks he wrote down careful observations what he saw in nature or wherever he was at. He also studied the human body and drew drawings of humans, skeletons, and muscles; he did this to try to figure out how our body works. He practically wanted to know everything he could at his time period. Leonardo was also know...