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Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian
polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer,
inventor, anatomist, 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, the Mona Liza is
the most famous and most parodied portrait and The Last Supper, the most reproduced
religious painting of all time, with their fame approached only by Michelangelo’s
The Creation Of Adam. Leonardo's
drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also regarded as a Cultural 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, and his chronic procrastination. 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.