How do I outline a research paper about a person?

I'm doing a research paper on an artist and it has to be at least 12 pages. I am not quite sure how to outline this paper. Do you have any ideas?

How do I outline a research paper about a person?
well writing about a famous person can be very lenghthy..so you might want to break it down in pieces:





you may wanna follow the wikipedia format..for example the outline i got for davinci is as follows:





1 Biography


1.1 Early life, 1452–1466


1.2 Verrocchio's workshop, 1466–1476


1.3 Professional life, 1476–1513


1.4 Old age


1.5 Relationships and influences


1.5.1 Florence—Leonardo's artistic and social background


1.5.2 Assistants and pupils


1.5.3 Personal life


2 Painting


2.1 Early works


2.2 Paintings of the 1480s


2.3 Paintings of the 1490s


2.4 Paintings of the 1500s


2.5 Drawings


3 Leonardo as observer, scientist and inventor


3.1 Journals


3.2 Scientific studies


3.3 Anatomy


3.4 Engineering and inventions


4 Leonardo the legend


5 List of paintings


6 Footnotes


7 References


8 Bibliography


9 See also


10 External links