Leonardo DaVinci, undoubtedly one of, if not the most talented, men of all time. Leonardo was brilliant and creative. DaVinci was an artist before his time. He grew up during the Renaissance but is known as a realist. He performed some of the best research that contributed to the inventions we enjoy today. During his life he painted two of the most famous realistic paintings of all time, The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Leonardo DaVinci is one of the greatest people to ever walk this earth. Growing up, we had no idea how small Leo would become. Leonardo was born on Saturday April 15, 1452 at 3 a.m. (Brother 29) and died on May 2, 1519 at age 67 (mos 2). He was born in Tuscany, a small town near Italy. His father Ser Piero di Antonio, a wealthy nobleman, and his mother Caterina, a peasant, never married but provided him with 17 half-siblings (29). Both of his parents later married different people (29). Until the age of five, he lived with his mother, then moved in with his father and stepmother (30 years old). In his father's house, he was raised by his grandmother and his uncle (30 years old). Despite his unfortunate start in life, Leonardo overcame most, if not all, of people's expectations of him. Very young, Leonardo's father knew that his destiny was to become an artist. In his father's house, Leonardo had the best education that a rich nobleman could afford (mos 2). While living in his father's house, he learned the scholarly texts and typographic tradition of Da Vinci (1). After his uncle left and his grandparents died, Leonard's father wasted no time in developing Leonardo's artistic talent. He sends Leonardo to the Bottega workshop to work as Andrea di Francesco di Cione, better known as Verrocchio, apprentice (Frere 30). Verrocchio was a famous sculptor and painter who helped Leonardo da Vinci middle of paper... who crossed everyone's mind. The emergence of the realist movement occurred for reasons known and unknown. A known fact is that realism was a revolt against the art forms of romanticism and classicism (Lipking 171). As times change, so does interest and technology, the growing popularity of industrialism and people's desire to understand realistic social life gave rise to realism (171). The realism artist wanted people to see that life is real and when an artist changes his life, people get a false reality of life (artcyclopedia 1). This movement shined a light on the real world and gave people the opportunity to save a piece of history forever. The rise and fall of realism occurred over a period of about a century. By the late 1700s, realism was a notable movement, but by the mid-1800s it had become a dominant art form (Boekoff and Kallen).).