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Born in Anchiano, Tuscany (now Italy), in 1452, close to the town of Vinci. -
His parents weren’t married and his mother left him alone to start a new family with another man. At the age of 5 he lived on the estate that his fathers family owned. Da Vinci's uncle raised him. -
Received no formal education other than the basics (reading, writing and math)
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His father liked his art skills and took him at the age of 15 to learn how to sculpt from Andrea del verrocchio. -
Leonardo was offered a membership by painters' guild of Florence but denied and stayed with his teacher Andrea. -
He became an independent master on his own, his first commissioned work being an altered piece of the chapel