Leonardo Da Vinci
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Leonardo da vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da VinciorLeonardo da Vinci(15 April 1452 2 May 1519) was an Italianpolymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor,anatomist, artist, geologist,cartographer,botanist, and writer. 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.
Leonardo was, and is, renowned primarily as a painter. Among his works, theMona Lisais the most famous and most parodied portrait andThe Last Supperthe most reproduced religious painting of all time, with their fame approached only byMichelangelo'sThe Creation of Adam.Leonardo's drawing of theVitruvian Manis also regarded as acultural icon,being reproduced on items as varied as the euro coin, textbooks, and T-shirts. Perhaps fifteen of his paintings have survived, the small number because of his constant, and frequently disastrous, experimentation with new techniques.Nevertheless, these few works, together with his notebooks, which contain drawings, scientific diagrams, and his thoughts on the nature of painting, compose a contribution to later generations of artists rivalled only by that of his contemporary,Michelangelo.
Leonardo is revered for his technological ingenuity. He conceptualised flying machines, anarmoured vehicle ,concentrated solar power, anadding machine,and thedouble hull, also outlining a rudimentary theory ofplate tectonics. Relatively few of his designs were constructed or were even feasible during his lifetime,but some of his smaller inventions, such as an automatedbobbinwinder andhydrodynamics, but he did not publish his findings and they had no direct influence on later science.[8] and a machine for testing thetensile strengthof wire, entered the world of manufacturing unheralded.He made substantial discoveries inanatomy, civil engineering,optics, andhydrodynamics, but he did not publish his findings and they had no direct influence on later science.[8]