Leonardo de Vinci - Book Report Summary

by

Donald J. Pinkston

Leonardo was born in 1452. He had lots of fun when he was a child and every time he went out he would have a big crowd around him. He was a good artist and when he got older he got into painting and was really good at it, too. But when Leonardo got older, he got into inventhing. He made one of the greatest hand gliders ever. The wings were made out of wax. The other parts were made of wood. A little bit farther he got back in to painting. It was in the 1500's and he painted one of the greatest paintings in the worls and that's the Mona Lisa which he painted in 1503. Lots of people knoew him and when he died in 1519 lots of people were sad and angry. Today people still talk about him and love him.

November 1998