Growing up in his father's Vinci home, Leonardo had access to scholarly texts owned by family and friends. He was also exposed to Vinci's longstanding painting tradition, and when he was about 15 his ...
Timeline: The High Renaissance. The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was the embodiment of the Renaissance ideal of the universal man, the first artist to attain complete mastery over all branches of art.
... The High Renaissance ``The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane.'' -- Leonardo da Vinci ... of these, Leonardo da Vinci ...