Leonardo Da Vinci
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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| Name | Leonardo Da Vinci |
| Gender | Male |
| Aliases | Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, Da Vinci, Leonardo DaVinci, Leonardo |
| Description | Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man", a man whose "unquenchable curiosity" was equalled only by his powers of invention. 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. Helen Gardner says "The scope and depth of his interests were without precedent...His mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote". Born as the illegitimate son of a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, at Vinci in the region of 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 spent his last years in France, at the home awarded him by King François I. Leonardo was and is renowned primarily as a painter. Two of his works, the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, are the most famous, most reproduced and most parodied portrait and religious painting of all time, their fame approached only by Michelangelo's Creation of Adamn |
| Birth |
Apr 15 1452
Vinci |
| Death |
May 2 1519
Amboise |
| Religion | Catholicism |
| Nationality | Republic of Florence |
| Ethnicity | Italian people |
| Occupations | Architect, Engineer, Anatomist, Military Engineer, Painter, Musician, Botanist, Writer, Inventor, Sculptor, Scientist, Mathematician, Geologist, Cartographer |
| Residence |
Milan |
| Residence |
Florence |
| Residence |
Vinci |
| Residence |
Amboise |
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