LEONARDO DA VINCI

BIRTH AND DEATH

Birth: 4/24/1452     Death: 5/12/1519

OCCUPATION

scientist

BIOGRAPHY SUMMARY

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 to have been a genius who epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal, and his collective works comprise a contribution to later generations of artists matched only by that of his younger contemporary Michelangelo.

NOTABLE WORK

Mona Lisa

WHY THEY MATTER

Leonardo da Vinci was intellectually unique and groundbreaking due to his exceptional versatility across various fields such as painting, engineering, science, and architecture. His extensive notebooks, filled with detailed drawings and notes on diverse subjects like anatomy, astronomy, and painting, showcased his insatiable curiosity and thirst for knowledge. Leonardo's genius and wide-ranging contributions exemplified the Renaissance humanist ideal, influencing later generations of artists and thinkers.

FAMOUS QUOTE

Paintingispoetrywhich isseenand notheard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged thesensesby which they penetrate to theintellect.A Treatise on Painting(1651), The Paragone, compiled byFrancesco Melziprior to 1542, first published asTrattato della pitturaby Raffaelo du Fresne (1651)

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