Leonard DaVinci could very well be the greatest painter that ever lived but he was so much more than just a painter. He was also a sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, geologist, cartographer, botonist and writer and probably the archetype of the term Renaissance Man.
It is hard to image one human being, one man, being all of those things, but he was. He quite possibly could be the most diversely talented person to have ever lived. His painting of the Mona Lisa is his most famous and The Last Supper is the most reproduced religious painting of all time.
DaVinci is also revered as a technological genius and the notebooks he left behind contained drawings of a helicopter, tank, concentrated solar power, and a calculator among others. Few of his designs were even feasible during his lifetime but some of them were put into use as the newest in technology such as the automated bobbin winder and the machine that tested the strength of wire. DaVinci also made important discoveries in anatomy, civil engineering, optics and hydrodynamics.
Leonardo DaVinci blessed this planet with his presence from 1452 until 1519.
I hope you enjoy these sketches by Leonardo DaVinci
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