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Leonardo da Vinci

Self-portrait in red chalk, Royal Library of Turin
Circa 1512 to 1515[nb 1]
Birth name Leonardo diser Piero da Vinci
Born April 15, 1452
Vinci, Republic of Florence (present-day Italy)
Died May 2, 1519 (aged 67)
Amboise, Kingdom of France
Nationality Italian
Field Many and diverse fields ofthe arts and sciences
Movement High Renaissance
Works Mona Lisa
The Last Supper
The Vitruvian Man
Lady with an Ermine


Signature of Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Italianpronunciation: [leoˈnardo da ˈvintʃi] pronunciation (help·info)) (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, Old Style) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician,engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often beendescribed as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination".[1] He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all timeand perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.[2] According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and "his mind andpersonality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote".[1] Marco Rosci states that while there is much speculation about Leonardo, his vision of the world is essentially logical rather thanmysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unusual for his time.[3]
Born out of wedlock to 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,...