Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1564), born in a small village in the
hills outside Florence, a consummate genius and one of the greatest inventors the world
has ever produced, but one who
left only three works in Florence, all of them in the Uffizi.
Leonardo painted the angle on the left of Verrocchio's "Baptism of Christ" (about 1475).
Verrocchio, who was Leonardo's teacher, confessed he could never paint anything
as beautiful. Looking at his own inferior angel - with its bony head and short hair -
you can understand his lament.
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