Leonardo
This person was born to a young mother and he was considered an illegitimate child. Luckily for this person, the quality of illegitimacy seems to have made it easier for him to follow his true passions. Five generations of this person's family had held positions as notaries prior to his birth, but this person went on to become one of the most celebrated artists of not only the Renaissance, but of the millennium.
Andrea del Verrocchio
This person was the biography subject's mentor throughout his period of apprenticeship in the visual arts. This person and the biography subject would eventually go on to collaborate on a painting called The Baptism of Christ, after which this person never completed another painting on his own. This person's signature spirals found their way into the biography subject's list of favorite motifs.
Ludovico Sforza
It was at this person's request that the...
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