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Leonardo Di Ser Piero Da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer during the Renaissance. He is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time and a prime exemplar of the "Universal Genius." Some of his most famous works include the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and Vitruvian Man. Although he had no formal academic training, Leonardo made substantial contributions across many fields through his drawings, paintings and notebooks. He conceptualized many advanced creations well before their time, including flying machines, concentrated solar power and an adding machine.

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Leonardo Di Ser Piero Da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer during the Renaissance. He is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time and a prime exemplar of the "Universal Genius." Some of his most famous works include the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and Vitruvian Man. Although he had no formal academic training, Leonardo made substantial contributions across many fields through his drawings, paintings and notebooks. He conceptualized many advanced creations well before their time, including flying machines, concentrated solar power and an adding machine.

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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Italian: [leoˈnardo di ˌsɛr ˈpjɛːro da (v)ˈvintʃi] (About this soundlisten);

14/15 April 1452[a] – 2 May 1519),[3] known as Leonardo da Vinci (English: /ˌliːəˈnɑːrdoʊ də ˈvɪntʃi,
ˌliːoʊˈ-, ˌleɪoʊˈ-/ LEE-ə-NAR-doh də VIN-chee, LEE-oh-, LAY-oh-),[4] was an Italian polymath of the
Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture,
science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany,
paleontology, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and
architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time (despite perhaps only 15
of his paintings having survived).[b]

Born out of wedlock to a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, in Vinci, in the region of
Florence, Italy, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Italian painter Andrea del
Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan, and he
later worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice. He spent his last three years in France, where he died in
1519.

Leonardo is renowned primarily as a painter. The Mona Lisa is the most famous of his works and the
most popular portrait ever made.[5] The Last Supper is the most reproduced religious painting of all
time[6] and his Vitruvian Man drawing is regarded as a cultural icon as well.[7] Salvator Mundi was sold
for a world record $450.3 million at a Christie's auction in New York, 15 November 2017, the highest
price ever paid for a work of art.[8] Leonardo's paintings and preparatory drawings—together with his
notebooks, which contain sketches, scientific diagrams, and his thoughts on the nature of painting—
compose a contribution to later generations of artists rivalled only by that of his contemporary
Michelangelo.[9]

Although he had no formal academic training,[10] many historians and scholars regard Leonardo as the
prime exemplar of the "Universal Genius" or "Renaissance Man", an individual of "unquenchable
curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination."[6] He is widely considered one of the most diversely
talented individuals ever to have lived.[11] According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and
depth of his interests were without precedent in recorded history, and "his mind and personality seem
to us superhuman, while the man himself mysterious and remote."[6] Scholars interpret his view of the
world as being based in logic, though the empirical methods he used were unorthodox for his time.[12]

Leonardo is revered for his technological ingenuity. He conceptualized flying machines, a type of
armoured fighting vehicle, concentrated solar power, an adding machine,[13] and the double hull.
Relatively few of his designs were constructed or even feasible during his lifetime, as the modern
scientific approaches to metallurgy and engineering were only in their infancy during the Renaissance.
Some of his smaller inventions, however, entered the world of manufacturing unheralded, such as an
automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire. He is also sometimes
credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter, and tank.[14][15] He made substantial
discoveries in anatomy, civil engineering, geology, optics, and hydrodynamics, but he did not publish his
findings and they had little to no direct influence on subsequent science.[16]

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