This may launch marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci.
He was born on this day.
April 15,1452
From an early age he demonstrated artistic tendencies and when he was 14, his father placed him in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence.
As an apprentice Leonard and sculpture and the technical mechanical arts in exposed to the study of anatomy.
It was in Verrocchio's workshop that he executed his earliest known complete painting.
The Annunciation as well as the Madonna and Child and the Madonna.
Later in the service of the Duke of Milan, he completed what is perhaps his best known religious work a monumental wall painting of the Monastery of Santa Maria Delle Grazie
Here for your Holy week
Contemplation is a collection of Leonardo's greatest Christian painting.
By: Linda Bahati
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