Leonardo da Vinci
1452–1519 · Renaissance & Mannerism
Biography
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was a painter, engineer, scientist and inventor, the very embodiment of the Renaissance. Only about fifteen paintings by him survive, including the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
From the artist’s life
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), painter, engineer and scientist, trained in Florence and worked in Milan, Rome and France. He completed few paintings, but each changed the course of art.
From the page of Annunciation
Leonardo di Ser Piero da Vinci was raised and taught by his father. The artist was indisputably one of the greatest minds of the Renaissance (the rebirth of art and European learning in the 15th–16th centuries) and one of the most talented people in history. He achieved outstanding results in many fields of art and science: he was a painter, sculptor, architect, mathematician and engineer. His works still enchant and amaze us today. His meticulous sketches of the human body and internal organs are still remarkable, and many of his inventions — including the tank and the helicopter — were so far ahead of their time that for centuries they were technically impossible to build.
From the page of Mona Lisa
