Part one of term paper
It started long ago as a little boy. I discovered I had many unique talents. I was born in the small town of Vinci, in Tuscany, near Florence of Italy in the year 1452. I was the son of a wealthy Florentine notary and a peasant woman. When we moved to Florence, in the mid-1460s, I was given a wonderful education. I was a fine musician an ...

Part two of term paper
... an independent master. My first commission was to paint an altarpiece for the chapel of the Palazzo Vecchio. It was the Florentine town hall. The Adoration of the Magi was my first large painting though but was unfinished and was ordered in 1481 for a monastery that I just can not remember. I painted another picture also called the Benois Madonna and a few others but my mind is old and I have lost most my memory. In a year around 1482, I began to give service to the Duke of Milan. After writ ...