Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, Old Style) was an Italian Renaissance scholar who dabbled in many trades – painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer.
{"Image DocumentName": "Leonardo da Vinci", "Image ImageDescription": "Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 \u2013 May 2, 1519, Old Style) was an Italian Renaissance scholar who dabbled in many trades \u2013 painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. More than any other person of his day, Leonardo da Vinci embodied the ideas of Renaissance humanism and has often been described as the best example of a Renaissance Man. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. Born in Florence, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter, Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan. He later worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice, and he spent his last years in France at the home awarded him by King Francis I. Leonardo was primarily known for his work as a painter. Among his works, the Mona Lisa is the most famous and most parodied portrait and The Last Supper the most reproduced religious painting of all time, while Leonardo s drawing of the Vitruvian Man is arguably his most famous sketch. Perhaps fifteen of his paintings survive, the small number because of his constant, and frequently disastrous, experimentation with new techniques. Nevertheless, these few works, together with his notebooks, which contain drawings, scientific diagrams, and his thoughts on the nature of painting, compose a contribution to later generations of artists only rivaled by that of his contemporary, Michelangelo. In addition to his work as a painter, Leonardo da Vinci is revered for his technological ingenuity. His notebooks contain drawings and descriptions of a helicopter, a tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator, and he outlined a basic theory of plate tectonics. He made important discoveries in anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics, but he did not publish his findings and they had no direct influence on later science.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}