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On April 15, 1452 Leonardo Da Vinci was born in the Tuscan town of Vinci. He was the illigitame son of a Wealth Florentine notary. In the mid-1460's his family settled in Florence, which was the intellectual capital of Italy at the time. He was given a good education and in 1466 he was apprenticed to Andrea del Verrocchio, a leading painter n sculptor of his day. He began working on many paintings and large sculpture projects. In 1478 he left from the side of Verrochio and became an independent master. Leonardo was commisioned to paint several works in the time after such as the Adora