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There are actually two versions of Da Vinci’s famous painting The Virgin of the Rocks.Leonardo’s surname Da Vinci simply means ‘of Vinci’, a Tuscan village not far from Florence, which is where his father’s family took their name.He paid a cool 30.8 million dollars for a 500-year-old manuscript written by Da Vinci. One of today’s most successful figures, Bill Gates, the man behind Microsoft computers, was obviously inspired by Leonardo’s mind.Apparently he ordered music to be played at every sitting so the lady’s smile would remain! Little did Da Vinci know that this was to become arguably the world’s most famous painting!

The Mona Lisa is a portrait of the wife of a Florentine official.

Leonardo obviously had an amazing mind but believe it or not he never went to school! Instead he was taught reading, writing and maths at home.

This kind of ‘ mirror writing’ led people to believe that Da Vinci wanted to keep his ideas secret! But as well as using his left hand to write, he wrote back to front, from right to left across the page which meant that, for many years, people were unable to understand his notes. He was said to buy animals from the market just so he could set them free from their cages! He even chose to be a vegetarian, something that was very unusual in those days. He spent his early years with his mother but then lived in the household of his father, grandparents and uncle.

His father, Ser Piero, was a wealthy Florentine lawyer and his mother, Caterina, was a young peasant girl. Leonardo Da Vinci was born near Florence in Italy in 1452.

Leonardo Da Vinci was a genius and perhaps one of the most remarkable men that has ever lived. Wow! It’s hard to believe that one man could possibly have that many talents. Da Vinci was also a sculptor, an architect, a poet, a composer, a scientist, a mathematician and an inventor. Leonardo Da Vinci is probably best known as the famous artist who painted the ‘ Mona Lisa’, which has hung in the Louvre gallery in Paris for over 200 years.