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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was born in April 15, 1452 and died in May 2, 1519. He was Italian polymath , being a scientist, mathematican, engineer, inventor , anatomist, painter , sculptor, archiect, botanist, musican and writer . Leonardo was best painter at his time. He was the person , who painted Mona Lisa, the Arno Valley, the Last Supper and a lot more. In the 1480s Leonardo received two very important commissions, and commenced another work which was also of ground-breaking importance in terms of composition. Unfortunately two of the three were never finished and the third took so long that it was subject to lengthy negotiations over completion and payment . One of these paintings is that of. Among the works created by Leonardo in the 1500s is the small portrait known as the Mona Lisa or ’’la Gioconda ", the laughing one. The painting is famous , in particular , for the elusive smile on the woman 's face, its mysterious quality brought about perhaps by the fact that the artist has subtly shadowed the corners of the mouth and eyes so that the exact nature of the smile cannot be determined . The shadowy quality for which the work is renowned came to be called Leonardo’s Smoke. During his lifetime Leonardo was valued as an engineer. In a letter to Ludovico il Moro he claimed to be able to create all sorts of machines both for the protection of a city and for siege . When he fled to Venice in 1499 he found employment as an engineer and devised a system of moveable barricades to protect the city from attack. He also had a scheme for diverting the flow of the Arno River in order to flood Pisa . Within Leonardo's own lifetime his fame was such that the King of France carried him away like a trophy, and was claimed to have supported him in his old age and held him in his arms as he died. The interest in Leonardo's genius has continued unabated; experts study and translate his writings, analyse his paintings using scientific techniques, argue over attributions and search for works which have been recorded but never found.