Leonardo da Vinci 

Leonardo da Vinci was born on 15 April 1452 near the Tuscan town of Vinci, the illegitimate son of a local lawyer. He was apprenticed to the sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence and in 1478 became an independent master. In about 1483, he moved to Milan to work for the ruling Sforza family as an engineer, sculptor, painter and architect.

the name of the art work is called the Mona Lisa.

A very famous  painting of a woman which is known as  " the best known, the most visited and the parodied work of art in the world. What I think about this painting is that he is trying to use a lot of perfection in this piece of art.  what I men is that he tries to make the painting look like she was calm, relaxed and happy and the background he included is really interesting.

I can see mountains and the very old roads it looks like as if she was happy, relaxed and happy.

Really deep inside her she is probably stressed, upset because maybe she was poor, where she grew up was a really poor area or probably she grew up where there was war going on in her village or country.

what the  artist used on his art work was oil painting on poplar wood. he used a couple of techniques called ' sfumato' and 'velature'. Sfumato is an Italian word translated ' evaporated ' or 'vanished'. this type of technique involves light and dark paint, using tiny brush strokes, to create a blurry blending between two of the colours.

Velature is when an artist mixes different pain colours on canvas, instead of doing it on a pallet. Leonardo perfected both these techniques, as well as having general knowledge of the human anatomy and the laws of nature to make his paintings more realistic.