Leonardo ‘invented’ the bicycle, the airplane, helicopter, and parachute some 500 years before their time. Subsequently, he lived in Florence, Rome, and France. He apprenticed as a sculptor and painter before he moved to Milan to work for the ruling Sforza family as an engineer, sculptor, painter, and architect. He reached across the disciplines of science, art, humanities, and technology like no one before and few since.īorn in the village of Anchiano near the Tuscan town of Vinci, Leonardo was the illicit son of a Florentine notary and a peasant girl. The man who painted the celebrated portrait “Mona Lisa” (1504–05) and the renowned mural “The Last Supper” (1498) was a fountainhead of inquiry and creativity in anatomy, mechanics, art, gravity, optics, music, birds, flying machines, geology, weaponry, the human heart. This great Italian Renaissance genius of art and science is often regarded as history’s most creative genius. Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519,) fully Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, was a prolific Italian painter, sculptor, scientist, engineer, inventor, and polymath.
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