Leonardo da Vinci

1452 - 1519 Renaissance Italian

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Leonardo da Vinci was a quintessential Renaissance polymath, renowned as a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. Born in Vinci, Tuscany, he apprenticed under Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence, creating masterpieces like the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and The Vitruvian Man. His notebooks brim with thousands of pages of scientific observations, anatomical drawings, and inventions such as flying machines, armored vehicles, and hydraulic systems, many centuries ahead of their time. Da Vinci worked for patrons including the Medici family, Ludovico Sforza in Milan, and King Francis I of France, where he spent his final years.

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