Leonardo da Vinci

✶April 24, 1452

†May 12, 1519

Italy

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About their life

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and palaeontology. Leonardo is widely regarded as a genius who epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal, and his collective works contributed to the development of European art to an extent rivalled only by that of his younger contemporary Michelangelo.

Renaissance polymath whose paintings, notebooks, and inventions embodied the union of art and science, and whose Mona Lisa remains the world's most famous portrait.

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