Modulo 7 Semana 2. Actividad: Interviewing a celebrity

Leonardo da Vinci (Painter)	Life stages
Vinci, April 15, 1452 He was baptized and spent his first five years at his father's house in Vinci, where he was treated as a legitimate son.	Birth
Leonardo received instruction, learned to read and write, and acquired knowledge of arithmetic, In 1457, when Leonardo was five years old, his mother married Antonio di Piero Buti del Vacca da Vinci, a peasant of the town, with whom he had five children.	Childhood
In 1469, Leonardo entered as an apprentice to one of the most prestigious art workshops under the teaching of Andrea del Verrocchio, to whom he owes part of his excellent multidisciplinary training.	Adolescence
In 1472 this period derives one of his first works known, the Landscape of the valley of the Arno a drawing made with pen and ink. This was how he began his career as a painter with works already outstanding such as The Annunciation	Youth
In September 1513, Leonardo da Vinci went to Rome, where he worked for Pope Leo X, Leonardo received only modest orders and seems not to have participated in the construction of the numerous Roman fortresses, Beautification of the capital. Neither was his painting successful and took refuge in another specialty, perhaps his favorite, the hydraulics, and realized a project of drying of the Pontine Lagoons	Maturity
On April 23, 1519, Leonardo, who had been ill for several months, wrote his will before a notary at Amboise. He asked a priest for confession and receive extreme unction. He died on May 2, 1519 in Cloux, at the age of 67 years. Tradition tells that he died in the arms of Francis I, but probably this is based on an erroneous interpretation of an epigraph written by Giorgio Vasari.	Death

  10  August, 2017

Actividad: Interviewing a celebrity

Module: 7   Mi vida en otra lengua. 

Leonardo da vinci was not only a painter he was also an anatomist, architect, paleontologist, artist, botanist, scientist, writer, sculptor, philosopher, engineer, inventor, musician, poet and urbanist. His most well-known pictorial works are La Gioconda also known as La Mona Lisa and La última cena. In addition to these two works of art, he wrote countless revolutionary ideas that could not be developed until several centuries later, some because of the technical limitations that existed at the time and others because of small incongruities in his sketches that made the operation of his inventions.

1.    What were your motivations for having done and studied so many types of arts?

2.    What inspired you to do the art of the Mona Lisa?

3.    Do you consider "The Last Supper" your most important work?

4.    Which of your military inventions did you like best?

5.    What have been your major investigations in biology?

6.    Why did you invent a new way of writing?

7.    What do you think was your most difficult job or invention?

8.    Everything you did was worth it, do you feel satisfied?

9.    What would you most like to do to this day?

10.  Would you like to have children, wife or family?