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Article: Leonardo da Vinci still influencing scholars, artists
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- May 31, 2006
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Elizabeth Stuart
University Wire
05-31-2006
(The Daily Universe) (U-WIRE) PROVO, Utah -- Leonardo da Vinci was a gracious man, whose gentleness and concern for living things can be inferred from the reverence with which he depicted them in his art and studies.
He was born the illegitimate child of a successful notary and a peasant woman in Vinci, Italy, a small town not far from Florence, Italy. Da Vinci was adopted by his father and raised in the home of his grandfather.
Da Vinci was raised as a Roman Catholic, and while he wasn't a religious fanatic, da Vinci felt amiable towards the church, said Vern G. Swanson, director of the Springville Museum of Art.
With 17 half-siblings, da Vinci ...